[Hunton Peck]

I'm pretty sure the RINOs are trying to force a third-party exodus to throw elections to the Dems, for which RINOs will, as always, blame conservatives while they laugh it up with their real friends.

[truthfreedom]

Isn’t the overall deal that the tea party kills all the RINOs in the primary. It was great fun to kill off Mike Castle in Delaware. That’s what the tea party does. The RINO establishment destroys the party and the tea party voters destroy the bad Republicans.

[Dumb_Ox]

I'm pretty sure the RINOs are trying to force a third-party exodus to throw elections to the Dems, for which RINOs will, as always, blame conservatives while they laugh it up with their real friends.

Quite possibly. I've been reading up on John Lindsay, a progressive Republican turned Democrat. What if he's an archetype of the kind of Establishment GOPer we're dealing with? How do we break this losing cycle?

The big problem is that the Dems are the party of government, and the GOP is not. If we want government to change, shouldn't we invade the Dems instead of vote third party?

If we had fiscally tightfisted, socially conservative Democrats in the bureaucracy and the judiciary, this country would be a lot better off and the GOP wouldn't dare play with the Larry Craig Republicans. While a lot of us should still fight on in the GOP, perhaps those tempted to go third party should instead go "rogue Democrat" -- challenge Democratic state legislators in primaries in "safe" districts, be "the weird guy" at party meetings, become delegates to the county, state and even national assemblies, etc.

That bipartisan strategy is how America was subverted. Going Third Party just lets both the Dems and the GOP become even more nutty.