Yes! this is very true. The patriot and tea party groups have the energy and they have a righteous cause and they can raise money, but they need to professionalize when it comes to GOTV.
You are absolutely correct. Across the board with some of the new candidates, there was appalling unprofessionalism on the part of their advisers. Anyone who has every worked in high-level politics could see it a mile away.
I have said it before, and I will repeat myself: we need a top-notch conservative organization that will essentially be a free school and consulting firm for first-time candidates. It needs to help in everything from hands-on grassroots organizing, to messaging, to hands-on staffing.
The old Free Congress Foundation was great at this, but with Paul Weyrich’s longterm illness and death, it lost focus. AFP does its best, but as the only legitimate game in town, it is simply stretched too far. ALG’s top guy is very capable, but their heavy-drinking political director is a walking disaster. Most of the other top groups — like LI and ATR simply have other core missions.
The Tea Party Federation’s Mark Lloyd is fully capable of creating and overseeing such an org. He is on their board. Let’s hope they appoint him to do it.
The new TEA Party conservatives need to take over the GOP and then we can push foward with GOTV en masse. Look how much success has been accomplished already.
Out with the old RINO’s and in with the new conservative youngbloods.