Time for a New Republican Party

The failure of political leadership over the last 20+ years has set the foundation for a third national party. Throughout our history the two major parties have evolved to a point where they lose touch with the people they claim to represent and a third party pops up and takes one of the existing party original credentials. Usually one of the two existing parties, usually the minority, will absorb the ideas of the upstart and call them their own. Which in the case of the Tea Party and the Republican Party, would amount to a discovering of the original conservative movement. Today Ronald Reagan would be a Tea Partier, not a Republican. As a matter of fact, Ronald Reagan would be disgusted with today's Republican Party.
The Tea Party will start fielding candidates for elections all over the country. And as the idea spreads so will the strength of a third party. My prediction is that 20 years from now the Republican Party will of developed into a national force originating from the Tea Party of today.