“The only way to oust a RINO incumbent is to bypass the primary and run a third party candidate in the general election to siphon votes from the RINO and let the Democrat win.”
Shirley you are not advocating such nonsense.
Advocate? No.
But I posted several lengthy posts on this in January to think through the scenarios when the topic of third parties first came up.
The problem is when conservative primary candidates get shut out by the NRCC. We either have to wait for them to die in office or we have to find a way to flank them. "Sore Loser" laws prevent good primary candidates from running in the general election when they lose to the RNCC, so the alternative seem to be to avoid a rigged party primary and go straight to the general election.
It's probably a more viable House strategy than a Senate one, because the next election is only two years later versus six years in the Senate. The only difference in the Senate would go away if we lose the legislative filibuster. At that point, being down by one seat is no different than being down by five seats. If cloture remains, then a slim minority is still a factor where every seat would count.
Either way, it wasn't meant to be the start of a new third party, but just a temporary measure to oust entrenched RINO incumbents and then let the third party fade away and morph onto the movement that retakes control of the GOP.
-PJ