Two electoral backhands in a row, and the Republicans still don’t get it.

First, Crist is the favored nominee for Martinez’ old Senate seat in Florida.  When I say favored, I mean that the Republican Party is backing that mislabeled Democrat over his more worthwhile opponent, Marco Rubio.  However, Crist isn’t doing so well.  Show your maverick support for Crist by visiting Rubio’s site today.

Second, the GOP establishment is actively backing a candidate in NY-23, one Scozzafava, against the candidate the district and grassroots actually support, Hoffman.  You can read the report about it at Michelle Malkin.  Scozzafava is as mislabeled a Democrat as they come, but apparently the GOP still doesn’t care.

Fine by me.  End run it is.

The GOP is in no position to block us anymore, at least not completely.  Conservatives have their own movement.  We have our own conservative sources of funding.  We have our own sources of grassroots manpower.  Candidates who aren’t favored by the Other Democrat establishment can’t be silenced, because we can give them the publicity they need.  In other words, we can do an end run around the GOP’s machinery and get what we want.

In the end, this may be the fastest and easiest solution to the problem with the GOP.  Just starve their national committees while continuing to build our own sources of money, manpower, and publicity.  In the end, the establishment may not like it, but we’ll be holding most of the cards so it won’t matter anymore.  We would effectively be a third party able to use the name recognition of the Republicans to be conservative again.  The strategy would be to get as close as practical to the place when only we would have everything it takes to give good, solid conservatives what they need to win Republican primaries and general elections.

The third party option is still a consideration, especially with a number of good ones out there, but it’s not the best first choice for a solution.  Building a viable third party takes a lot of effort no one has managed yet.  An independent conservative power-broker solution, however, can make changes within the existing structures.  Power-brokering has been proven effective before (that’s all the Republican National Committees do), and this is the way to go to reincarnate the Republicans.