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The End Game: A Strong GOP.

By: Josh LeGuern (Diary)  |  October 27th, 2009 at 05:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As we wait in anticipation for the results of NY-23, hopefully in favor of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the race over DIABLO (Democrat in all but label only –Mark Steyn) Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens, we need to ask ourselves a very important question: If we do run third party candidates, what is the end game?

In my opinion, Glenn Beck misses the mark here. Beck has advocated a third party uniting true conservatives and libertarians to defeat both liberal Republicans and Liberal Democrats. I think this is the path to suicide in most cases. We need to advocate conservative candidates, but we need to make sure they’re in the Republican Party.

Look at the effort that has gone into getting Doug Hoffman elected this year. He’s had the full support of most conservative blogs, the endorsements of high profile Republicans like Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Tim Pawlenty and Dick Armey, and talk radio all trumpting him as the path to success. Hoffman is the only sensible choice, but we need to recognize that someone like him should have been nominated by the GOP in the first place.

If Palin doesn’t win the 2012 nomination for the Presidency, there would be those who would advise her to run independently, this would be a huge mistake on her part as it would all but ensure the re-election of Barack Obama. She should stand behind the Republican nominee and do everything she can to get them elected.

The end game should be a conservative Republican Party, not a third party.

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

    By joining it. At the grass roots, precinct committeeman/associate/whatever-it’s-called-where-you-live level. The terminology and systems are different in each state. And seem to wrapped in secrecy in many.

    Each conservative who wants to have a vote on who leads the Party, and which candidates get the Party endorsement in the primaries, has to actually get to a local GOP meeting and volunteer to become a voting member of the Party. If we all do that, we can form a strong voting majority within it. Obviously, we don’t have that now. Look at our “leaders” and many of our RINO candidates. We could have conservatives leaders at the precinct, legislative district, county, state and national level. IF we come into the Party as voting members of it. We can’t do that at a keyboard. We have to actually, physically get to a meeting. The requirements are different in every state.
    Go here to start: www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

    And here: http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2009/05/05/the-committeeman-project/

    Make becoming a voting member of the Party your top priority and that of every conservative you know or you can reach. If we do that, we’ll have a conservative Republican Party. HALF of these precinct committeemen slots in the Party nationwide are VACANT. (Or were on election day in 2008 — we’re filling up the vacancies where I live with conservatives by tapping into the Tea Partiers and other conservative grass roots groups who are looking to “DO SOMETHING.”). Then do whatever else you think is important.

    This strategy has already worked in one county so far this year. And it’s an important county, politically — “Harry Reid country” — Clark County, Nevada. Read a first-person account of how it was accomplished here (you’ll see it was rather easy — just took some cooperation, a little strategy and a sufficient number of conservatives; it is, after all, a pure numbers game):

    http://marionsword.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1B80DAF0A76159D5!924.entry

    Scozzafava never would have gotten the nod if the counties that comprise NY-23 had more conservatives in the precinct committeeman ranks.

    Read about it here: http://www.tcotreport.com/23ny1.html

    Every conservative who wants a more conservative Party ought to, if they haven’t already, take the time and expend the effort (it’s not much) to become a precinct committeeman. Then we’d have it.

    No More Scozzafavas!

    Thank you.

    ColdWarrior
    www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com