Now that does sound like a viable plan. Let's focus on that for a spell. Would you like to start a vanity thread on that idea?
They cut through the dross and simply invited state groups ~ still extant state based Whig parties, and new Abolitionist state organizations ~ to send representatives or delegates to the new committee.
We can look out there and see that the Republican party is broken even though a good 85% of the party is intact, functioning, and sees no reason why they have to adopt Democrat positions to win elections in the future.
Let's look at the party base. Back in 2006 we had 26 million voters stay home.
That was an historic event ~ a record breaker. No political party in American history had ever had that many of their base voters just stay home.
We could go over and over what went wrong, but it got down to a failure of the party leadership to bother organizing that year to win the Congressional races.
That was followed by 2008 when we had a drop off from the 2004 Presidential race. That was followed by 2010, another mid-term election, and this time we only lost 15 million voters!
Compared to 2006 that was a whopping victory.
Now, compare that to the Democrats. In 2006 they didn't have 26 million voters decline to show up ~ they had a drop off from 2004, but it was nothing like that.
In 2008 they had a history making 69 million people vote Democrat. They beat us by 10 million voters!
Then, after the failures of the Obama regime became apparent to the dullest of the dull they broke records in the number of voters showing up to vote for their guys ~ they lost 30 million voters!
That was followed in 2012 by a drop of about 6.5 million in the number of voters they'd had in 2008.
It might have occurred to you by now that these are Enormous Numbers of voters not voting one time or the other in both parties.
Part of the difference is there are several million more voters interested only in the Presidential races than there are voters interested in Congressional races.
Not only are these enormous numbers they are greater than all of the third party voters put together! To a degree the drop-off numbers are greater than the number of voters altogether for decades in the memory of folks in their 50s and 60s!
So, a vanity post on this idea? Really ~ I think we need a new category so we can associate all of our threads about party organization, reorganization, restructuring, and so forth ~ for easy reference.
I'm thinking of writing a brief book on this ~ shorter than Conscience of a Conservative, but I will refresh every body's memory of his most astounding observation about the geometry of American political thought. Maybe Mark or Laz can get me a publisher.