Until there is some organized effort by a third group to get people in the primaries and win seats en masse, and especially removing those currently in leadership, sending a couple here and there isn’t going to help much. Let’s face it, the leadership controls the congressional caucuses and they decide the agenda.
If there’s a goal the Tea Party should shoot for and organize around, that should be it. It does require though, alot of people getting off their lazy asses and working very hard to make it happen.
You do not need to form a third party. It is actually fairly easy to take over the GOP, but it’s got to be along the Gingrich model of state by state.
“You do not need to form a third party. It is actually fairly easy to take over the GOP, but it’s got to be along the Gingrich model of state by state.”
I went to a couple of GOP meetings in Tallahassee. There was a cadre of old GOPers who controlled everything. It did not appear to be easy to take over. You get in. You pay your dues, and by that time you’re so invested in the way things are, you can’t change them.
“If there’s a goal the Tea Party should shoot for and organize around, that should be it. It does require though, alot of people getting off their lazy asses and working very hard to make it happen.”
I know CO seems hopeless from the outside. But inside the state, we have been working hard to get constitutional conservatives selected in the primaries. This year, we had by far the most liberty oriented Republican caucus in state history. And we are now one senator away from controlling the Senate. The GOP-E is pushing back hard. We just have to push back harder.