If you're a conservative but not a Republican then you're irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.
Quite the other way around.
Only if you're a Republican do you have the means of translating conservative ideas into conservative policy.
THIRTY YEARS with *no* real and lasting movement toward Conservatism as enabled by the Republican Party proves you wrong.
Sure, you'll have to put up with those nasty centrists and libertarians and Trumpsters who disturb the echo chamber you'd prefer, but that's the price of belonging to a coalition that can successfully obtain and wield political power.
LOL! Like now?
Conservatives who aren't Republican make a little noise on the internet but otherwise contribute bupkis.
Oh i don't know. I was part of large funding drives, mostly for pro-life causes, for decades. All that dough poured onto Republican coffers seems to be 'a little noise, but otherwise bupkis'. what a waste of time that was, eh?
Now, if everything works out, all that time and money is going directly into a non-profit and will serve the same need - but not a drip of it will go to Republicans. It will go where it will make a direct and effective difference instead.
What is it, 29 governorships and counting?
Thanks almost exclusively to TEA Party guys like me. Never ever again.
Control of the House and Senate?
To what end? Certainly not Conservatism. Watch and see.
Yup, the Republican party is alive and well - thanks in part to the cretins who think "conservatives" need to reject the GOP. Who needs that negative energy anyway?
The Republican party is a caricature. It has no purpose or form except to promote 3rd-way Socialism.
The energy I am spending now is very bright, and far more useful than the thirty years of nothing that came from my efforts for Republicans.
Politics is a different game than venting on the internet.
While admitting I stay more on the money side of it, I dare say I probably know that better than you do.