We conservatives need to get away from the keyboards and out of our chairs for an hour or two a month and DO something that really will make a difference — get to a local GOP meeting and volunteer to become a voting member of the Party, a precinct committeeman. And drag all your conservative friends along with you.

Scozzafava never would have gotten the nod in NY-23 if more conservatives were in the Party there as precinct committeemen. The conservative precinct committeemen got out-voted by the moderates.

Not enough conservatives were involved in the Party nationwide in the 2008 election cycle as voting members of the Party. Indeed, HALF the precinct committeemen slots nationwide were vacant, and the half that are now filled are split about 50-50 between moderates and conservatives. The results of that split, and the inactivity of conservatives WITHIN the Party, are apparent if one looks at our Republican “leaders.”

Not enough of “We the [conservative] People” have deigned, apparently, to sully our hands with the raw nuts and bolts of the Party machinery that elects the Party leadership, endorses the candidates and gets out the vote and informs the voters at the precinct level. But that’s where the power lies. That’s how the Obama-backers beat the Clintons. Bottom line: if you don’t become a precinct committeeman, you don’t have a vote in the elections that determine who leads the Party at the precinct, legislative district, county, state and national levels. I’m guilty as charged; I didn’t have my eyes opened to this simple, powerful fact until the spring of 2008.

Maricopa County, AZ, “Goldwater Country,” has a conservative at the helm of the county GOP by a twenty vote margin out of 800 cast at a county convention at which only 800 precinct committeemen showed up out of 1,900 elected precinct committeeman. And those 1,900 elected precinct committeemen could have been 6,300 or so, because that’s how many slots there were in the county. To represent 694,000 registered Republicans. So, 20 registered Republicans who invested a few hours to become precinct committeemen decided for 694,000 registered Republicans whether they’d have a conservative or a McCain-moderate holding the gavel at the Republican Party county organization.

Arizona, “Goldwater Country,” has a conservative at the helm of the Arizona Republican Party by a similarly close margin. At the state GOP convention earlier this year, the incumbent conservative, Randy Pullen, was almost ousted by McCain-moderate Lisa James, by a margin of 20 votes. Two years ago the margin between the two was FOUR votes.

I hope you’ll DO something WITHIN the Party as a precinct committeeman. It’s vitally important to the future of our Republic. Those here who already are precinct committeemen, or are in the process of becoming one, know what I’m talking about.

Go here to learn more: www.theprecinctproject.wordprerss.com

Here’s Martin Knight’s take on it a while back here at RedState:

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

Happy with the current “leaders” of the GOP locally, at your State HQ and at the RNC? Then do nothing. Want change? Become a precinct committeemen so you can VOTE.

If you want to read an account of how Scozzafava got the nod, go here: http://www.tcotreport.com/23ny1.html

If you’d like to read an account of how the Tea Partiers and other conservative grass root-ers came together and invaded the Clark County, NV (includes Las Vegas) Republican Party, became precinct committeemen, and then replaced the moderate leadership with a new slate of conservatives, go here:

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

Oh, and by the way, virtually every incumbent Republican does not want you to know about this, even the conservatives. Why? Because even the incumbent conservatives fear a backlash at the polls in 2010 and, if the Party becomes a conservative juggernaut, even they might lose their primarry to a “more conservative” Republican challenger. Remember, virtually all the incumbent conservative Republican House members “went along to get along” on all sorts of spending votes during the time the Republicans controlled the House and Senate under Bush. That’s a big vulnerability a “fresh face, non-professional politician” conservative challenger could exploit. And the incumbents know it. So, mum’s the word on the power of the precinct committeeman.

Ask yourself when you last heard a conservative Republican “leader” implore conservative registered Republicans to take tthe next step and come into the Party as voting members of it — as precinct committeemen?

Thank you.

ColdWarrior
www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are not questioning anything about Obama’s intentions. They are asking do we have enough people with courage to oppose and stop the country from being dismantled piece by piece. The courage of people is still being played out, and even cockstradamus doesn’t know exactly how all of this is going to play out.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Fausta’s Blog,

which covers a broad range of topics from a conservative perspective and includes a number of links to Latin America stories that I don’t see elsewhere.

La Gringa’s Blogicito

the only site so far that has an ongoing update on news reports and internal rumors. It seems like there’s a news embargo for us in the U.S., and this is one of the only places I know that says anything about what’s going on in Honduras.