As long as the status quo in the Party remains the same (half the precinct committeeman slots nationwide remain unfilled, with the half that are filled remaining split about 50-50 in a gridlock between moderates/liberals/RINOs and conservatives), they really don’t care what the “little people” say.

But, if they saw the status quo beginning to change, with thousands and thousands of conservatives (including Redstate-ers) flooding into the county GOP organizations to become precinct committeemen, THEN, maybe, they’d start to listen. Because they’d know they’d be at a much greater risk of losing that all-important primary election.

If every phone call and fax and e-mail and letter to the congresscritters began, truthfully, in the following way, I believe the congresscritters would take notice, as they’d see a real threat to their reelection chances:

?I am a conservative Republican Party precinct committeeman and I am recruiting every conservative I can to come into the Party with me as a precinct committeeman for the sole purpose of making sure you and all like you who do not uphold your oath of office will not be returned to office in the next election? or

?I am a conservative Republican and I am taking steps to become a precinct committeeman and I am recruiting every conservative I can to come into the Party with me as a precinct committeeman for the sole purpose of making sure you and all like you who do not uphold your oath of office will not be returned to office in the next election.?

Thank you.
ColdWarrior

who are to blame. Not enough of us good conservatives were engaged in the real ball game of party politics for too long and we allowed our Party to be hijacked by RINOs/moderates/liberals. I’m guilty as charged.

No more.

If conservatives do not flock into the Party to fill up all the empty precinct committeemen slots and vote in better leadership and help the best conservatives win in the primary elections, then they will only have themselves to blame if nothing really changes in the 2010 elections. Half of the precinct committeemen slots nationwide are vacant. And the half that are filled are gridlocked between conservative and RINO factions. Mere words on blogs and in e-mails and faxes and phone calls and letters to congresscritters, and on signs at a tea party, and at town hall meetings, won’t make a bit of difference if those words are not backed up by action within the Party itself as a voting member of it.

With half the voting slots within the Party itself vacant, the Party is there for the taking by conservatives. Apparently going to local GOP meeting to volunteer to become a voting member of the Party is too much for most.

Will conservatives get out of their chairs and leave their keyboards and actually go to meetings? I’m not optimistic. Our country is about to lurch into socialism, and I don’t see any real action by conservatives. I see lots of sign waving. Lots of marches and protests. Lots of petition signing. Lots of e-mails and phone calls to congresscritters. But very little in the way of meaningful political action in the real ball game of party politics.

In case you are interested in “doing something, for example, here’s how the new conservative leadership in Clark County, Nevada, makes the process known on their web site:

http://clarkgop.org/precinct.htm

Some counties, run by the “good old boys,” hide this information from the “mere” registered voters. They don’t want to be voted out of their comfy “leadership” positions.

Probably the case in Kentucky. I nosed around some of the Kentucky county GOP web sites and couldn’t find a word about how to become a voting member of the Party there.

Probably explains why Mitch McConnell doesn’t fight.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior

I also try, over on ResistNet.com, to recruit conservatives to become Republican Party precinct committeemen. Here’s what a woman named Susan experienced in Indiana:

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Hi Cold Warrior -

Regarding your statements here:

[Even the "good" consevative Republicans won't talk about it to the "unwashed masses" at the Tea Parties because they FEAR you will wake up and INVADE and TAKE back the Party -- and that means even they might get beaten in the primary by a better, more conservative non-professional politician candidate.]

This is so true because several weeks ago I actually went to the Repub Headqtrs in FtWayne, IN and talked to the man in there about p.c. positions. He actually tried to discourage me from becoming a p.c. He angrily made some remark about how “people who have not climbed the ladder in politics, earning their way up, should not be allowed to just instantly become a p.c. just because they want to!”

SUSAN

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No matter. Whether the “good old boys” like the influx of RUBES should concern us not — “we” conservatives can replace the “good old boys” just like they did in Nevada a few weeks ago if we just invade the Party in sufficient numbers. We have the numbers. The Tea Party movement shows that. We seem to be lacking the basic knowledge of civics and how political parties actually work as well as the willingness to spend a couple of hours a month going to a local GOP meeting.

Audax, thanks for all the encouragement and information.

ColdWarrior