will be a 2.5-3 billion dollar expense, minimum. That is just to run for President; you still need to run for Governor, Congressman, Senator, Mayor...this will cost another billion when all is said and done. Who is your rainmaker? Where does the money come from? Koch Brothers, Shelly Adelson, George Soros, forget it, they are too invested where they are at. Literally, the only billionaire unspoken for is Nanny Bloomberg and if he could self fund a third party -- he'd already have done it. Which leads to a final point. Not every person in the country agrees with you on everything to get enough votes to get elected, you'll need to decide where you are willing to compromise. In this party, you aren't the reformer; you're the establishment. No one has done a third party because it's too expensive to play and once you get around to getting elected, you have to form the same coalitions that folks hated about the Democrats and Republicans. The answer as Becker states below is to take over the local parties, then you have a vote on who is on the RNC. The best plan out there that I have seen is ColdWarrior's...he has written several times about those efforts on this site. In addition, Daniel Horowitz has written several times about efforts to recruit quality candidates and get them elected. Club for Growth is doing excellent work in this area. That was a long winded response that Becker summed up better below