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David Brooks: Why didn’t you tell Ben to become a precinct committeeman?

The latest from “I’ll look down my nose at ya” David Brooks.

Brooks’s mythical everyman Ben is just too darn stupid, apparently, to be involved in party politics.

And Brooks ain’t about to tell him that if he would just get to his local Republican Party committee meeting to become a “card carrying member” of the Republican Party, along with thousands of others who think like him, maybe, just maybe, he could actually have a voice WITHIN the Republican Party, rather than waiting for the “powers that be” to fix things.

Ya know, little powers like actually having a vote on who gets to run the Party.

And how to get the vote out in the primary for the BEST conservative candidates.

Ya know, like they did it in Utah to deny RINO Bob Bennett a place on the primary ballot.

Ya know, little things like that.

So, why doesn’t Brooks talk about such things? Is it because he knows nothing of it? Or that he does, and he chooses not to inform the “unwashed masses” like Ben how they could empower themselves?

I like the mythical Ben Brooks has conjured up. But Brooks’s Ben just votes. Brooks would have better served Ben if he had told him that he needed to do something more than just vote.

That he needed to at least find out where his local GOP committee met. And to go to a meeting. At least one.

And find out what precinct he lived in.

And find out who the precinct committeemen in his precinct were (assuming they exist, as fully one third of the precincts, for example, in Arizona, have ZERO precinct committeemen, and HALF the precinct committeemen slots nationwide, for example, in the Republican Party are VACANT).

That he needed to know who his state legislators were. And needed to call them occasionally.

And needed to know who his county board members were. And city council members. And school board members. And maybe get to one of those board and council meetings once in a while.

Note that nowhere in Brooks’s article appear the words “we the people.” Or “precinct committeemen.” Or “local party politics.” Or “unite inside the Republican Party.”

No, Brooks wants “the little people” like his mythical Ben to stay in the dark and rely upon the elites like Brooks to provide him with the “right” candidates to vote for.

Gosh, that David Brooks is soooo smart.

For Liberty,
ColdWarrior, PC (that’s “precinct committeeman,” not “political child!”)
Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW!
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American first, conservative second, Republican precinct committeeman BY NECESSITY!

ThePrecinctProject, so you can say, “I became a precinct committeeman before it was cool.”

“[Primary e]lections have consequences, my friends.” — John McCain

COMMENTS

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    for example, never tells his listeners to become precinct committeemen. No, he tells them, when they implore him, “Rush, what is the one thing we can do to change things?”, he tells the caller that they’ve “already done it” by calling his program and that they need to become the “go to” person in their circle of friends on “the issues.”

    Sean Hannity never tells his callers to become Republican precinct committeemen.

    Nor does Mark Levin.

    Nor Laura Ingraham. (Indeed, she didn’t even know how the Virginia delegate system (similar to Utah’s) works for electing Virginia senatorial candidates.)

    Nor does Glenn Beck.

    Nor do any of the other conservative Republican talking heads (and scratch Hannity from the “Republican” list, because he says publicly he isn’t even a registered Republican).

    Nor do any of the Republican Senate or House leaders.

    Even when they speak to Republican audiences. Or conservative audiences.

    Contest! Show me video evidence of any of the following Republican leaders imploring conservatives to become Republican precinct committeemen and explaining why doing so is the KEY to taking back our country:

    Mitch McConnell

    Jon Kyl

    John McCain (included only because he was our presidential nominee)

    John Boehner

    Eric Cantor

    For Liberty,
    ColdWarrior, PC (that?s ?precinct committeeman,? not ?political child!?)
    Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW!

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      of the Reagan conservative movement. Cold Warrior is the the teacher of how to translate that movement into a center-right governing majority. Y’alll need each other! We need all voices.

  • qurys

    I don’t care your party affiliation. Apathy is just another excuse in this day and age. So Ben is busy. Either he wants his country to stand or fall.
    I have a very local talk show. I have had the state GOP head on several times. I have had the County GOP head on several times. I have talked about people’s frustrations. I have asked what we can do. I have never heard this answer.
    We MUST have more than an interest in voting and then standing on the sidelines for another two years.