“Mate, this bird wouldn’t ‘voom’ if you ran four million volts [votes] through it.”
The four biggest states (the three you mentioned, plus Texas) are all good ideas, but we have to keep in mind that a 50 state strategy has caught on in the Demwit Party, beginning with Howard Dean’s in 2006. And that was after Dean put his foot in his mouth with his “forget the South” crap.
Primarily, we need to work on fellow FReepers. We’re not going to get a walk-on-water candidate in every race (or *any* race), but we can hold the feet of our own to the fire — whereas we have ZERO influence over the socialists. In the 1990s, specifically after the Contract with America victory in 1994, a smallish number of defections took place, lifelong Demwits switched to the Pubbies.
As we all know, after the 2000 election, Pubbie control of both houses fell apart when Jeffords of VT left the GOP and became independent, turning a 50-50 tie (with VP Cheney as the Pubbie tiebreaker) into a 50-49-1 split and Demwit control of the Senate. And in 2006, Joe Lieberman lost the primary to Lamont, left the Demwits, ran as an independent, and whipped Lamont’s sorry MoveOn/DU ass right out of town. Stating that he’d caucus with the Demwits, Lieberman continued to support the WOT (practically his only conservative position on any issue), and gave a rousing speech to the 2008 Pubbie convention. I think by that time Obama cornered him on the Senate floor to bully and threaten him.
Check out this thread by Jim Robinson about a Free Republic PAC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184284/posts
I think it is time for each state to start a state Free Republic Chapter.
And regional chapters also.
California thread: