And no, while its an easy and childish answer to proclaim so, the parties are very much NOT the same.
You are welcome to immerse yourself in totally immersive cognitive dissonance and Normalcy Bias to sate your blind faith in salvation from a corrupt party to your heart's content.
The fruits of the last decade-plus speak to the futility of practicing insanity by voting for Republicans.
Never again. The fruits speak. There is little difference in either party as both empower Statism and Oligarchy.
And frankly, I hope your diseased party goes the way of the Whigs.
I just wish I could get back all the years I stumped for them as a precinct captain and obtain a refund of all the money I wasted on them because I fell for the same stupid and insipid argumentation you are offering as a justification of your failed party right now.
I am done playing the battered wife and doing the same stupid thing over and over and over again while your party morphed into the Democrat party right under your nose.
Its a guarantee of losing...permanently...the GOP and your little 3rd party would become irrelevant and conservatism as a viable political force would be lost in this nation.
We're already there so it's a moot point altogether. Your political messiah in the White House is already seeing to the irrelevancy of Conservatism as is the party he pretends to head.
Why would anyone claiming to be a conservative wish for such a thing?
Reality dictates we start over from scratch.
You cannot grow fresh from rotten, lawful from lawlessness, justice from corruption. Yet that is all you offer.
And please spare us the instance that your party can be reformed with more elections. Some of us remember what your party's leadership did the last two conventions to ensure no possible Conservative contender can possibly win a national nomination.