McCain “slipped in on name recognition...”. Partly true. Also, ‘Rats by the thousands went to New Hampshire to vote for McCain. As I understand it, and according to Rush, all one had to do to vote in that primary was to declare intent to move to New Hampshire!
We don’t get conservative candidates by bemoaning the fact that we don’t have conservative candidates, we get them by getting involved in the party machinery at the local levels, getting ourselves appointed as delegates to state conventions and central committees, and working our asses off for conservative candidates. It has to start with us and locally!
I ran for state house of reps. in 2000 and was narrowly defeated in a district that was 5-3 Democrat. At that time, ‘Rats were seeing that Republicans were the party, generally of power, and they began running as Republicans in my (former) state. For instance, a school superintendent, who was a liberal and big NEA man was elected to the state senate as a Republican, because no real conservative would run against him.
Conservative Republicans have to learn that POWER VACUUMS WILL BE FILLED and if they are filled by default it won’t be good. By nature of the fact we are conservative we are too busy making our livings, raising our children, etc. to run for political office or work to advance conservative candidates. Liberals, on the other hand, live to pursue power because political power is the only vehicle for personal advancement that most of them have.
Conservatives must learn that we have to find the time to serve our country politically. Most conservatives are adverse to the dirtying that will come to them from politics, but if we won’t do it, then liberals will. We get the candidates we work for.
McCain “slipped in on name recognition...”. Partly true. Also, ‘Rats by the thousands went to New Hampshire to vote for McCain. As I understand it, and according to Rush, all one had to do to vote in that primary was to declare intent to move to New Hampshire!
The RNC needs to revise it's primary process/order to insure that it's actual voting base are the ones that chose the candidates. If New Hampshire has policies in place where fraud is built in then it's silly to have it timed in such a prominent priority.