It sure got Clinton's attention. Oh, wait a minute. :P
If all the 'true' conservatives left the Republican party and started their own party, what would be the outcome of elections in the United Kingdom?
Well, the Conservative party and the moderate Republicans would probably form a coalition government because they got a combined 55% of the vote. Hooray!
Ok, now what if the same thing happened in the United STates?
Very different outcome - in fact, we saw the outcome in 1992. A minority Liberal with 42-3% of the vote would win.
A smarter move is to form a coalition/caucus WITHIN one of the two parties, then get your guy through the primary. Lets try another scenario.
If the goal is to elect a true libertarian Constitutionalist conservative, what scenario do you think would be most useful to him:
a) All the conservatives in the country are organized into a caucus within the Republican Party where they make 40% of the party and can get another 11% by arm twisting, reaching out, etc.
b) Half the conservatives left to start their own party and have abandoned the R party to the moderates who won't give him a nomination. He goes into the general primary ala Perot or Buchanan and, again, nearly tips the election to John Kerry.
See, this isn't about ideology or comprimosing principles or about personalities or people. It's about whether or not you are a G D retard and can't do match.
On a completely different note, I strongly suspect that reason doesn't really count for much with the true third party types who read everything I wrote as 'RINO talk'. As these types normally exhibit poor personal hygiene, don't contribute financially or otherwise, and spend most of their days talking on HAM radio and posting on FR, saved the trouble of getting up from their chairs throughout the day by using empty milk jugs, I don't think they really account for much.
The overwhelming majority of us real conservatives 'get it'.