Well, we need to fight on more than one front at a time. We need to do what you suggest, which is what the left has been doing for 40+ years and their ship has come in. Much of this has been done behind the scenes while we (most average people, anyway) weren't looking.
We also need to fight a very public fight in the arena of ideas and this is where the "leader" of the movement is important. As far as I'm concerned it can be a leadership team and, in fact, I think this is best as it projects power and confidence. These leaders will emerge. I still agree with you that it is premature to pick now. Leadership becomes apparent. It is seldom artificially generated.
It bothers me that the Rush, Cheney, etc. conservative side is being ignored or trashed by the rest of the RINOs. If Cheney can't get support IN PRINCIPLE after his Obama smackdown speech then, as I wrote at the time, we are very screwed at least for the time being.
What I really wonder about is whether there is *anyone* behind the scenes actually strategizing the conservative movement's long term campaign. Right now it looks like the RINOs are simply pushing us out.
Personally, I'm depressed about the near term. We'll see what happens next.
Actually what they have been doing has been just the opposite. They've concentrated on the federal government. Making it stronger, making if more influential, making more people "dependent", in one or another, on it. Then they took it over as completely as it's possible to do, using our current system. Now that they have it, and the power that goes with it, they aren't likely to give it up, democratically or otherwise, unless they are forced to do so.