Not naive. Those state chairman you blame, can be replaced. They very often are.
If you can’t organize and replace those positions in the GOP, you can’t do the same thing in a third party - it’s the same work and skills.
Further, if you have a third-party, you’ll have the identical task of filling those slots with those folks you want - and the same arguments and fights.
The only difference is you have a ton of extra work for a new party that you don’t have organizing and changing an existing party.
A) I spent two decades trying to fix the GOP. Like I told you, it’s a pipe dream. And with the impending nomination of Romney, the situation just got infinitely worse.
B) I’ve spent four years building a new party, and we’re doing just fine, with a minimum of “arguments and fights.” And we’re doing it on a completely principled basis.
Good grief, you *are* naive, aren't you?
Replaced by whom, another state chair whose jib is cut the exact same way. State party politics are almost always driven by personality more than ideology, except in very rare circumstances where a determined ideological minority raises enough of a ruckus that the rank and file wakes up for a moment and gets mad enough to turn out in force at county conventions.
Most of the time, however, when one state chair (or other top official) is replaced, it has to do with factional politics - one guy's circle of followers was able to finagle a way to get the other guy thrown out.