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The Time for Action is Now: A Message to Grassroots Conservatives

The countdown has begun.

Yesterday marked 100 days till the presidential election. Undecided voters will begin to weigh their options more closely. Will they choose four more years of slow economic growth, or a new direction?

This means now is the time to get involved! Here’s how: This coming weekend is Super Saturday, where volunteers across the country will be mobilizing to get the word out to voters by making phone calls or going door-to-door to potential Republican voters. If you’re in a battleground state, find a Victory Office near you or sign up for an event by visiting the Social Victory Center on Facebook. If you’re not in a battleground state, or can’t make one of our events on Saturday, you can use the Social Victory Center to make phone calls from home using our phone-from-home program. Even just a few calls or doors knocks makes a huge difference.

    In the coming weeks, voters will watch conventions, debates, and rallies. These are important, but recently, Americans have heard nearly all they need to know to cast their ballots—most of it from the president himself.

    Last week President Obama said, “We tried our plan—and it worked.” Days later, the quarterly GDP report showed the economy grew by a feeble 1.5 percent in the second quarter, meaning the economy is actually slowing down.

    In short, his plan has not “worked.”

    He has lost touch and also lost focus. A “Daily Economic Briefing” has not appeared on his schedule since April of 2011. He has not convened his Jobs Council in over six months. Yet somehow in that time, he squeezed in over 110 fundraisers and 11 rounds of golf.

    We see his true priorities.

    We also saw his true views on America’s free enterprise system when he said recently, “If you have a business, you didn’t build that. Someone else made that happen.” This was a revelation. It was President Obama’s most explicit attack on business owners and innovators on record—the clearest articulation of his belief that government is responsible for all that is good in America.

    As President Reagan famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”

    Today, that problem is President Obama’s big government agenda—tax increases, over-regulation, reckless spending, skyrocketing debt, and Obamacare. Small business owners that are surviving are doing so not because of government, but in spite of it.

    President Obama’s hostility toward free enterprise is a stark departure from what America has long stood for, and it is taking a toll, day by day, on American families.

    Our country needs a turnaround, a fresh start—something Mitt Romney is uniquely qualified to deliver.

    Throughout his career, Mitt Romney has turned around enterprises that were on a path toward disaster—companies that were hurting, an Olympics that was failing, a state that was struggling. In each case, he provided steady-handed leadership and produced results. Businesses flourished. The 2002 Winter Olympics were a tremendous success and a source of national pride. Massachusetts’ economy grew and created jobs.

    When then-candidate Obama stood before the America people in the final 100 days before the 2008 election, he was untested. He had never served as an executive. He had not run a business, an enterprise, or a state. But his words convinced many independent voters—and even a few Republicans—to take a chance on him.

    Today, the results speak for themselves. It’s time for a change. In 2008, those that chose Obama voted for him because of his words. This time, they can vote on his record.

    That record demands a new direction. And Mitt Romney’s record shows he is more than capable of providing it. New directions, turnarounds, and fresh starts are his calling card.

    As we count down the days, we have to make that contrast absolutely clear in the minds of all voters.

    The clock is ticking.

COMMENTS

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

    “Grassroots conservative” Republicans can take action another way by taking the next step beyond registering to vote: becoming a “voting member” of the Republican Party itself at their local level by becoming a precinct committeeman.

    Every state has its own unique set of rules relating to how to become a PC (terminology varies from state to state). Fundamentally, PCs are the Party because they, directly or indirectly, elect all of the Party officers.

    Significantly, about half of the Republican Party PC slots across the nation remain vacant and it’s estimated that about one third of the precincts in most states have not even one Republican PC. Here in Arizona, in Maricopa County, where Phoenix sits, we’ll have about 55% of our Republican PC slots filled after the primary election; after the 2008 primary, only about 31.8% of the slots were filled. And, unfortunately, about one-third of the precincts have no PCs, but some of us are working on that.

    The Republican voters in each precinct elect their PCs. Each precinct has one PC slot and then one more for every additional 125 Republican voters or majority portion thereof. I’m fortunate to be in a legislative district with some very talented, smart PCs and they’ve created a very good web site for our LD:

    http://ld18gop.com/

    Some conservatives complain “the Republican Party” is not “conservative enough.” Fundamentally, the Party is not “conservative enough” because not enough conservatives are in the Party in the PC ranks.

    I hope someone finds this information to be helpful.

    Thank you.

    ColdWarrior

    • Common_Cents

      Recruiting and promoting, shaping real conservatives.

      We are tired of having candidates shoved down our throats from the establishment.

      There must be a reason why not one candidate/incumbent in DC promotes getting involved in local parties, but only to GOTV and hand over their money.

      Please get real conservatives involved in the process much earlier on. If people have some “ownership” in the process they’ll be much more dedicated!

      We need your help in re-vamping the Republican party from the ground up to establish a real solid base. You are in a perfect position to do this.

      Thanks!

      • westcoastpatriette

        Chairman Preibus should spearhead a campaign to fill all of the precinct committeemen slots that are vacant (that we never hear about from Republican leaders). Here in California, I have tried to get answers for how to become a committeeman and, as you said, all they want is your money and time but no one will tell you how to become a voting member of the party. Could that be by design?

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

      tomorrow

  • raginpatriot

    devoting his resources to Senator DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund. Romney will be useful for displacing Comrade Obama, but not for advancing Constitutional Conservatism, or any kind of conservatism for that matter. So we need genuine Republicans (not “moderates”) in Congress to help protect us from Obama’s collectivism and Romney’s collectivist appeasement a/k/a “moderatism.”

  • cbartlett

    Thank you for this show of suuport but I am choosing to send my funds directly to REAL conservatives (who also happen to be Republicans) and not to the Republican party like all of your solicitation letters ask – at least for now. Show me an entire slate of REAL “grassroot conservative” candidates in the Republican party and I’ll start sending more money your way. :-)

    • teaforme2012

      We all recognize the importance of beating Obama, but Priebus’s heart is not in this appeal. He’ll say the right conservative things when he needs to. That’s his job, to bring everyone in for the common fight. I think the only way to do this is to empower real conservatives with donations, not the RNC.