Of dreams and fairy tales

As conservatives, it would seem to me that it would be easier to work towards reforming the Republican Party.

One of the realizations that came to me right before I left the GOP was that the party will be what the majority of its members want it to be. Conservatives who hang around and try to change it are on a fool's errand. Admittedly, if conservatives had moved to make their case when the party was on the brink of its leftward lurch, there was a possibility that change could have occurred. That possibility is long since dead and gone. That's Vox's point: conservatives have lost the battle for the hearts and minds of the GOP faithful. It's past time to move on. Continuing to believe that the party will change is simple masochism.

It seems like when us conservatives get beat in an election, we give up and quit...

Not at all. Most of us are intelligent enough to understand that beating your head against a wall will get you nothing but scars on your forehead. Opportunity is everything. Now is the opportunity for conservatives to abandon the rotting corpse of the GOP and re-form the alliance that won Reagan the White House.