And thanks for going to DC to protest.

You said in one of your posts about protesting outside the U.S. Capitol, “They can?t just keep ignoring us and get away with it.”

Actually, they can. And have. And will. Those who supported socialized medicine are post-modernists. They don’t have any moral scruples. They have majorities in the House and Senate and a Marxist in the presidency now. They don’t think like you and me. You mentioned the oath you took. I took the same one. We believe that that oath actually means something and we will live up to it. The believe such things are quaint notions of the unenlighened “little people.” They believe might makes right, that power comes out of the barrel of a gun. They have the reings of political power and they will now use that power to its maximum use if they can get away with it. Perhaps the only way to strike fear in them is to make them think that they will be tossed out at the ballot box in November. The BEST way to signal that threat to them is to get as many conservatives as possible to INVADE the Republican Party at the grass roots, precinct level. By becoming precinct committeemen.

Go to my blog below to learn more.

If we could get all of the Tea Partiers and other grass roots conservatives to UNITE in the Republican Party at the grass roots level, and thereby become politically RELEVANT, then we could change the Republican Party into a 100 per cent strength (it was at half strength in the 2008 election cycle), conservative powerhouse (it’s split about 50-50 right now ideologically between conservatives and RINOs — Michael Steele (elected by the precinct committeemen) is Exhibit A to that fact).

You will have not heard any elected Republican talk about this at the protests at the Capitol because even they don’t want the grass roots conservative Tea Partiers to invade and take over the Party because even they are afraid they’ll get tossed out in their primary contest if a better, more conservative newcomer, who’s never been to Washington, challenges them.

So I hope you’ll become a PC and drag every conservative you know to your next local GOP to find out how to become one in your state.

And thanks again for going to the Capitol, even though I don’t believe it really made a difference to the post-modernists.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
No More Scozzafavas!
Become a Republican precinct commiteeman. NOW!

I have a strategy. It’s at the blog below and it’s just good old fashioned grass roots party politics that most conservatives, sadly, either don’t know about or just don’t want to engage in, preferring instead to “instruct from on high” in blogs. I call the strategy, for lack of a better term, the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy. Purpose? Get a working majority of conservatives in the Party internal voting positions (called precinct committeeman in some states, captain in others, etc.) so we conservatives can elect conservatives to the leadership positions and get out the vote in the primaries for the best conservative candidates.

I was hoping you were going to give me an alternative strategy.

Have you ever tried to become a “card carrying member” of the Party so you can be “inside” it and vote for the leadership? Have you tried to recruit other conservatives to join you in that endeavor?

I’m an elected precinct committeeman. And I’m an “at large” elected member of my county’s Executive Guidance Committee and helped four other conservatives to get elected to the four other slots on the Committee. We were elected by all of the precinct committeemen who attended the county annual meeting (or sent their proxies with another PC from their precinct).

This is basic civics. Basic party politics. Precinct committeemen ARE the Party. I submit if you are disgruntled with the Party, then join it. And change it from within. Come on in, the water’s fine. With HALF the PC slots in the Party vacant, on average, in every county and state, there’s plenty of room for you. If all the slots happen to be filled where you live, no matter. Go to the local GOP meetings and learn the ropes.

I hope you’ll take a look at my blog and the strategy and then come into the Party and help me and the other conservatives IN it change it. We elected PCs in AZ are doing just that.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
No More Scozzafavas!
Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

I asked if YOU had a STRATEGY.

We conservatives, collectively, have got to stop blaming “the Republicans” until each of us have done out utmost to get our Party back to 100 per cent strength at the grass roots level.

Standing on the outside of the Party and yelling at it will not change it. Only by getting inside it, into the grass roots ranks of the Party, can we conservatives, collectively, change the Party.

A registered Republican voter is not a “member” of the Republican Party. A registered Republican voter gets to vote in the primary and general elections. Period. Only precinct committeeman members of the Party get to, for example, elect the leadership of the Party. In my state, AZ, if a state representative or state senator position in the legislature becomes vacant due to, for example, a resignation, ONLY elected precinct committeemen (assuming there are 30 or more in that district) have the right to vote for who gets to fill the vacancy — they nominate three candidates and then the Board of Supervisors of the county select from those three. If a majority of the precinct committeemen are conservatives, guess what? Three CONSERVATIVE candidates will be selected and, no matter which one the Board selects, a CONSERVATIVE will become the new legislator.

McConnell isn’t up for a primary battle until 2012. Cornyn until 2014. Very little the Kentucky and Texas Republicans can do to motivate them to change. But, as our Party was at half-strength at the grass roots level in the 2008 election cycle, we conservatives have a golden opportunity to show “the Republicans” like McConnell and Cornyn that we mean business. How? By INVADING the Party and filling up all those vacant PC slots.

If only half the slots were filled in the 2008 election cycle, and they were split about 50-50 between conservatives and RINOs, if we conservatives filled up the empty slots, that ration would go to 75-25 in favor of conservatives. All of McConnell’s and Cornyn’s RINO cronies in the internal leadership elections would be GONE after the 2010 elections. Michael Steele would be GONE.

I received in the mail and invitation from McConnell and Cornyn to become a member of the NRSC “Inner Circle” provided I send them a check for $1,000. Even if I were to do that, without being an elected precinct committeeman, that $1,000 would not make me eligible to have any power over the leadership of the Party. The only way I can have a vote is by continuing as a precinct committeeman. So, I’ll soon be getting my nomination form prepared and walk my precinct to get the ten signatures (only ten! In Ohio, one only has to get 5!) I need to get onto the ballot. This season it may even be competitive, as all 8 slots in my precinct are filled. So, who know, I might not get re-elected — but I’ll still go to my monthly meetings, help conservative candidates, etc.

Until McConnell and Cornyn and the other “leaders” in the Republican Party (both the elected Republicans in the Congress and the elected Party leaders, like Michael Steele and the state chairmen) see a huge surge by conservatives INTO the grass roots positions of the Party itself, into the precinct committeeman slots, you will not see them change. They are professional politicians. They get this. They understand that the real way to change the Party is to change its makeup at the grass roots level. They understand that “the Party” IS DEFINED by its actual members. If the Party has a majority of conservatives in the grass roots precinct committeeman slots, then the Party will be conservative. Until that happens — until enough conservatives get to their local GOP meetings to get INTO the Party itself, you’ll see no real change.

Think of party politics as a football game. The registered voters are in the stands, yelling at the players. No amount of yelling will actually change what the players DO. Think of the players as the elected precinct committeemen. They can affect the outcome of the ball game because they are IN the ball game. They get to elect the team leaders and captains, the folks in the bleachers do not. Want to put some fear into McConnell and Cornyn. Don’t send them $1,000. Instead, become a ball player, and give that $1,000 to deserving conservative candidates who you’ll meet at your monthly GOP meetings.

In my humble opinion, the number one priority of every conservative Republican should be to become a “card-carrying member” of the Republican Party so you’ll be a player in the real ball game of politics — party politics — and be able to vote for the leadership of the Party. Let’s get the Party to that 75-25 ratio of conservatives to RINOs. If we do THAT, I believe we WILL change how McConnell and Cornyn act.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
No More Scozzafavas!
Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!