The Washington State GOP is in a similar degraded, insider dominated state. In my congressional district a Ron Paul supporter got organized early and won the primary. The GOP establishment trucked in a RINO woman from the very edge of the district to run against him, and she lost. The “punishment” for this was that the county and state party gave ZERO support to the nominee. Their excuse was that the “Central Committee” had not endorsed him. Their reason for this was that he said he wasn’t sure he could support McCain.
I have stopped donating to the GOP both locally and nationally. Having Mel Martinez, a huge open border advocate as head of the RNC sealed that deal. The poor treatment of the local candidate (who was an airline pilot, BTW) just because he was supporting real Constitutional government not RINO policy ended my support of the local GOP party.
Because of the way the primary system has been reformed in Washington the only power the GOP has left is the purse. If we don’t support them they can’t do much.
“If we don’t support them they can’t do much.”
Good point, Jack.