It’s really up to the conservatives in Boehner’s district to make Boehner an issue, as I explained here:

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2011/03/22/want-to-change-john-boehner-it%E2%80%99s-up-to-the-conservatives-in-his-district/

Some of the grass roots conservatives are figuring out that if they want to change Congress they have to “change out” the incumbents, and that the way to do that is to get involved inside the Republican Party as precinct committeemen. Here are a couple of excerpts from a great article at Townhall explaining how some in the “tea party movement” are figuring out how to get into the real ball game of politics — party politics (bolding added; link to article follows):

“The Tea Party was a very showy populist movement in the last cycle,” said Steven Schier, a politics professor at Carleton College in Minnesota. “Now they are in the trenches and institutionalizing their efforts.” Some call the new push Tea Party 2.0.

Instead of organizing demonstrations, an unpaid army of managers, small business owners, and stay-at-home moms is learning how to get out the vote, raise money and set up political action committees. They are working to overcome the territorial rivalries that dogged the Tea Party in 2010, when groups backed multiple primary challengers and often allowed the establishment candidate to win.

Because the Tea Party energy produced a larger than usual turnout for a mid-term election, however, the young movement propelled the Republican Party to the biggest midterm swing since 1938, with a mad scramble to staff phone banks and knock on voters’ doors.

“We came to the game late last time,” says Bob Orbin of the Northeast Pennsylvania Tea Party, who is a vice president at an investment advisory firm. “It was sheer craziness. We’re light years ahead of that now.”

The key to the Tea Party’s grassroots strategy is to master the mechanics of state and local politics.

“WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?”

Last year Catoosa County Tea Party member Keith Kenney – who works for a tile maker in northern Georgia – was elected as a Republican precinct chairman in his county.

“If you’d told me two years ago I’d be a precinct chairman,” he says, “I’d have said, ‘what are you smoking?’”

The precinct delegate system is the basic building block of America’s two-party system. The average precinct has 1,500 voters and the main job of delegates (who have different titles in some states) is to get out the vote.

They also choose party county representatives, who select state representatives and so on up.

But Republicans have long relied on well-funded campaign advertising to win elections instead of a precinct ground game. So the party’s precinct system was so atrophied in many places that Tea Party activists were easily elected delegates in 2010.

Once elected, Kenney compiled a PowerPoint presentation for delegates based mostly on Democratic Party literature (Democrats have traditionally had a better ground game). Now, using this or similar playbooks, Tea Party precinct delegates in many states are working on “walking lists” for their 2012 get-out-the-vote drives.

The article is here.

“We the People” have to relearn (or in some cases learn for the first time) the basics of civics and then organize and unite politically inside the Republican Party. And we better do it yesterday — we don’t have much time.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior