Excellent post, thanks.
Consevatives should really be seeking out and applying to Federal positions. Sure, we’d all like a smaller government, but it makes no sense for that to be any sort of impediment to getting Conservatives into available positions.
There’s an excellent opportunity right now in that the Gvt is giving all sorts of hiring preferences to veterans, who tend to be both more Conservative and less corruptable to begin with.
I doubt that hiring more conservatives would change the inherent bias for Big Government and the Democrats. Anyone who espouses limited, smaller government will find himself a minority within the the public employee community. It is in one’s vested interest to support the Big Government advocates.