It's really isn't a third party, Conservatives are orphans in the GOP. They treat us like the Dems treat the black vote: we'll tell you when to vote, vote for our guy, give us your $, thanks we'll take it from here. NY has always had a separate Conservative party and that's where I've been my whole life. So Rudy Giuliani was elected with a separate Cons. Party. Conservatives outside of NY have nowhere to go they are stuck in the GOP. Why should a Rand Paul Conservative be prisoner in the party of Jeb, Flake, Ryan and Romney? If a national Cons Party was started the constituents are already there as they show up at every Trump rally, we just need the organization. That giant sucking sound would be people leaving the GOP.
Notice on the Kavanaugh confirmation there was no question where the Cons were voting only the squishy middle of the road GOPers: Flake, Collins and Murkowski. When Cons control their own party they control the hard and soft $, we can vote for Cons in primaries instead of holding our noses and pulling the lever for Bush, Flake or Ryan. We are in a new era, as I said on Rush the Dems come to fight the GOP want to be statesman. Case in point, during the debates Trump pulled Jeb's pants down and spanked him on front of the world. Jeb just stood there with that stupid smile on his face trying to look like a statesman, that worked out well. Trump proved with Kavanaugh that you NEVER give in and you bring the fight right back at them, the GOP doesn't know how to fight and the Dems are scared shitless because the Anita Hill strategy backfired and now they don't know what to do.
You cannot change the party from within because too many of the old guard control the $. The change has to be rapid before the next election. The GOP will have to come to us with open hand. Do you think Rand Paul would have stopped the original vote? GrASSley did because he is a feckless, impotent, incompetent old man who wants to get along. They milked this for political advantage meanwhile this good man was left out to dry.