Wow, there are some really great ideas here. Let me add some thoughts to help in my own way.
It’s not helpful for us to throw rocks at the Republican Party, because we are the Republican Party. If the party is going against conservative principles, and I believe it is, we need to overthrow the leadership and point it back in the right direction. Throwing support to the Libertarians or the Constitution Party or any other third party is a sure recipe for continued losses. As I understand it, the first step in the process is to volunteer to be a Precinct Committeeman. That is the “grass roots” level of party membership, the folks who get together and decide who’s going to be on the ballot for local Republican-supported positions. If the RNC wants to run a RINO for some office, the Precinct Committemen can outvote them and put in a true conservative. The organization and leadership of the county and state Republican party members are a mystery to me, but I’m sure it’s possible to find out how those are put together and run conservative candidates for those positions. I would bet that the state party leaders have something to do with selecting RNC leadership positions, so that’s the next step. It doesn’t help us to stand over here in the corner and complain about “those guys over there.” Let’s make the RNC something we can be proud of.
I’ve heard from a friend who went to some meetings with his local Congressional Representative that the House Republicans are very disillusioned with Boehner and would like to see him step down as Speaker of the House. So we may see a positive development there. I don’t know that McConnell is all that bad. Last I heard, he was still standing up to Harry Reid and vowing that Republican Senators would be part of the legislative process or there would be no process at all.
I agree with you about Marco Rubio. He is a true conservative and his background is impeccable. The worst thing I ever read about him was something about what his brother in law did once, if I recall correctly. The MSM really struggled to come up with that, and it was all they had. Drudge had a headline about him travelling to Iowa the day after the election, so he’s in people’s thoughts. Something else I was thinking about rising stars: if Allen West does lose his election, he would make an excellent RNC chairman.
I really don’t like to see people playing the race card, but at some point the Republicans may need to think about doing that in self defense. We don’t really think about race when we think about Republicans, because we’re all Americans. That opens the door for the lefties to say that the Tea Party is mostly old white guys. So we may need to form some subgroups for women and blacks and Latinos and whatever “diversity” indicators we can come up with. Then when the lefties come up with their statements that we have no “people of color” with us, the Black Republicans can issue a strongly-worded statement of indignation about the insensitivity and ignorance of Democrats.
The GOP.com website is an absolute disaster from the standpoint of campaigning. Right there on the first page they should have a group of links to stories about how Obama and the Democrats have failed to govern the country with any kind of competence. Instead, it looks like a website for people who are curious about what is a Republican and where can I go to find out? The RNC must have sent me 30-40 mailings in the last four years asking for money. It was a complete waste. They should stop all those mailings and start buying billboard space, saying things with very few words like like “Obama lost 50,000 jobs in December. RNC.ORG” And then have the same exact wording right on the front page of their website, with links to documented news stories and interviews with the affected workers. And this needs to start TODAY, not in 2015! The MSM isn’t going to talk about Obama’s failures, and lefties won’t listen to right wing talk radio, but the billboards will get their attention and maybe get us some media time too.
And no offense, but we need to communicate our ideas in plain language, not with acronyms and code words like COIN and SOF. But you are right on the money about attacks and ridicule and scorn. We are horrible at that. Instead of saying “Here’s how Republicans could do it better,” we should be saying “Look at what the Democrats have done now to screw up the country even more, those incompetent, fumble-fingered idiots.”
Good discussion, great ideas, excellent topic. Now let’s get together and make it happen!
Thanks for your comments. We on the same page with this.
The acronyms are my fault. A result of the speed and emotion in which I wrote the initial post.
COIN refers to the counterinsurgency effort that I’m discussing. The ground level infiltration of vulnerable blue strongholds.
SOF are special operations forces.
Please send this to as many as you can. Trying to pick up speed with the idea.