are going to DO about this politically.

Not writing about it.

Not talking about it.

But, what, specifically, we’re going to do.

cwilson suggests we “primary everybody.” That’s a good “what.” Which begs the question: How do we, as conservatives, primary all the incumbents? What does each of us have to do to assure a constitutional conservative Republican challenger has a snowball’s chance in hell of beating an incumbent in the 2012 primary?

Here’s a game plan that was followed by grass roots conservatives in the 2010 election cycle that successfully denied an incumbent RINO senator a chance to even get onto the primary ballot:

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2010/05/08/2101-of-3500-of-75000-denied-bob-bennett/

Here’s a few examples where grass roots conservatives became ball players in the real ball game of politics — party politics — rather than continuing to stand on the sidelines and talk about what was happening on the ball field — and now they control their party committee:

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2010/12/04/they-stopped-complaining-about-the-republican-party-and-did-something-about-it/

I think we need to stop just talking about politics, and writing about politics, and actually get involved in the real ball game of politics — party politics — as full-fledged members of the Republican Party.

What does that mean? Well, here’s a couple of examples of what participation inside the party, as a full-fledged voting member of it , garners you.

On Jan. 8, I’ll be attending my county Republican Party organizational meeting along with, potentially, all 2,935 other elected precinct committeemen in my county. We’re going to be electing officers. And voting on changes to the bylaws. And voting on resolutions relating to what we believe as a Party and want to have in our Platform. And, one of two things is going to happen. Either conservative Republicans are going to outnumber moderate and RINO Republicans there on that day, or the moderate and RINOs are going to outnumber the conservatives. And that will determine whether, for the next two years, we’ve got conservatives in charge of the county committee or moderates and RINOs. (I make a distinction between moderates and RINOs because many of the moderates are actually pretty conservative, in my experience, but just have a couple of issues that might cause them to not think of themselves as conservatives. The RINOs, on the other hand, truly are Republicans in name only — they are progressives who don’t believe in anything except the progressive agenda and use the Party apparatus as one of their tools to advance their agenda. Then there are the MINOs (pronounced mynose) — Moderates in name only. These folks are actually conservative, but don’t want anyone to know. They’re afraid, for example, that they might lose friends, or invitations to parties, if anyone knew how they really think. They won’t even put up a sign for a conservative Republican candidate in their yard because then their neighbors might think they were — heaven forbid! — a conservative Republican. I’ve met many of these MINOs. Good people, but not too willing to take a public stand on issues and what they believe. But, thankfully, they’ll vote for conservatives every time.)

In 2008, our current conservative chairman was elected by a margin of less than one half of one per cent of the votes cast, defeating a well-known McCain RINO.

Then, on January 22, I’ll be attending the Arizona Republican Party organizational meeting as an elected state committeeman representing my legislative district, where the same thing will happen regarding the election of state committee officers, including a new state chairman (who also serves as an RNC delegate). I’ll be attending because I was lucky enough to be elected by my fellow precinct committeemen to represent them (each legislative district committee gets to nominate one state committeeman for every three elected precinct committeemen). So, indirectly, those of us who attend will have a say on who becomes the next RNC chairman (we elected our other two RNC delegates a year ago at another, similar, annual meeting).

In 2008, our outgoing conservative chairman, Randy Pullen, won against a well-known former McCain staffer and moderate by less than one per cent of the votes cast.

Here’s the kicker: Over half of the elected precinct committeeman slots are vacant. Which means, if we could find enough conservative Republicans to fill up just half of those empty slots, or even ten per cent of them, we conservatives would own the Arizona Republican Party, because right now, by my estimation, conservatives occupy about 60 per cent of the filled precinct committeeman slots.

If we conservatives, in 2011 and 2012, flock into the Party in droves, everywhere, we could change the outcome of the 2012 Republican primary elections as they did in Utah.

So, I think conservatives who are on the sidelines of party politics need to, if possible, get into the ball game by becoming precinct committeemen. It’s not hard to do. It’s not expensive. It only takes a little bit of time. Every state has a different set of rules; none are onerous.

If not you, who? In not now, when?

If not this, then please tell me a better strategy for taking control of the Republican Party and, hence, changing the outcome of the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections.

See my little blog linked below if you’d like more information about what I call The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy.

I propose we conservatives quit complaining about “the Republican Party” and become part of it. And, thereby, changing it. From a half-strength, ideologically-split shell of a political party into a full-strength, conservative political juggernaut.

It’s just sitting there for the taking.

Thank you.

For Liberty,

ColdWarrior