As an attorney (now recovering) I represented 1100 abortion mill Rescuers without fee and 30 were convicted of anything. One paid a fine to get a receipt to show his grandchildren to prove he was arrested saving babies. One paid a fine to go back home several states away. Fewer than 10 did any jail time post court proceedings and that was at a country club jail. No one agreed to probation. Almost all convicted (say 20 out of 30) were convicted of the non-criminal equivalent of parking tickets (infractions) and ordered to pay fines, which they left the court house and never paid. I also represented National Rifle Association members arrested for gun violations in my state.
By comparison to just these items in a much lengthier resume, did YOU DO YOUR FRIGGIN' JOB as to conservative activity? I would gladly see Ted Cruz nominated (especially if he can use the LBJ era law allowing him to seek re-election to the Senate, just in case). Sarah Palin is capable of a good run as well. Joni Ernst is our Senate candidate next door. She should land in DC running. She is an extraordinary candidate. Ben Sasse appears to be another. Perhaps Cory Gardner as well. Scott Walker has been quite controversial as a principled office holder at several levels but he has a golden touch with the electorate in a verrrry tough state on the eve of his re-election bid.
My backside is a bit broader than it used to be back then but, if it were much more narrow, I would still be past the point of physical activism. What stamina I have is used up going to Mass and shopping for groceries. What I do now, other than vote, I do on the computer and the internet. If that is not good enough for you, I don't really care. I will NOT vote EVER for Senator Mark "Nancyboy" Kirk or for my Congressthing Adam Kinzinger who is a footstool for Boehner and the Chambers of Commerce. Don't like it? Toooo badddd!
When I vote "against the commies," I vote against them whether they run as Demonrats or Republicans. If Myth Romney is nominated again, I will not vote for him again.
I will listen to Jeb but he provides no excitement and his parents ar still his parents. Rand Paul seems unreliable which is an improvement over his father who was merely nuts. Rand is also up for re-election in 2016. What does Rand need, issue-wise to withdraw and throw his support to Cruz? It would not be a popular choice here but Marco Rubio, if he can get over his support for normalizing the irregular and illegal immigration, is another sharp candidate and also up for re-election in 2016.
Why not nominate Ted Cruz and line up the other young stars to criss-cross the country tirelessly as surrogates for Ted? Let Ted Cruz and Rubio campaign in Spanish as well as English. Try to recruit Illinois's own Bruce Rauner (very substantial warts on social issues and all) to handle some serious fund-raising and to keep him away from Romney.
Consider Joni Ernst for VPOTUS. Iowa Governor Terry Brandstad will appoint a suitably conservative successor if she wins.
Above all, conservatives must unite behind one candidate, early on as in during 2015. Have a pecking order of others who come in from the bullpen in order if the prior candidate(s) fail(s) for any reason. Vet the lead candidates as though they were SCOTUS nominees. ssume that any hidden dirt will be found and choose accordingly. Accept that conservatives must meet a higher standard than leftists in the party primary and in the general election.
It is time for business to take a giant step backwards. Bringing back the blue collar Reagan democrats is job #1. Do that with a serious job expansion effort and social conservatism and support for gun owners and their 2nd Amendment rights. Judicial nominations: No more social revolutionaries for SCOTUS, Courts of Appeal and District Courts.
There are Obamunist schemes to force low income housing schemes on suburbs and inner rural areas. This insanity was actually imagined by George Romney when he was HUD Secretary. Nixon learned of the scheme and immediately fired George Romney. Convince blue collars that no such program will be tolerated. Convince actual Republicans that "Romney" is again a four-letter word.
We are not going to organize the Junior League or the other hereditary "Republicans" whose great grand daddies fought at Shiloh or Antietam. They gone. We can make progress by extensive ghetto and barrio campaigning. Most blacks and a lot of Hispanics have NEVER been asked for their votes by a Republican. A GOP oriented to folks of modest means and one that campaigns in such neighborhoods can build street cred where now there is none. Defense of the Second Amendment, of unborn babies and opposition to "gay" everything won't hurt either. Nor will real solutions to the awful condition of public education in poor areas.
There is more but I am well past bedtime.
I too am 68 years old. I'm not disabled and am sorry that you are. But, every bone in my body aches after working 60-70 hours per week since I was 13. Not compiling however.
Currently,I own my own business and create products that are copied world wide--once again not complaining, it is what it is. Along with building fishing rods both here and in Haiti I was an on-air broadcaster for thirty years and wrote for numerous different newspapers for over 30 years including a major driveby for 11 years.,p> I have made a few posts here on FR and a number on about a dozen other websites which I constantly post on trying to get wayward conservatives who are willing to have their vote canceled out by an illegal not to do so.
My success rate is good but like our candidates never 100%. I am in charge of a precinct in my county and a member of our county Executive Committee. Our Republican base in our county though small is very conservative and we have been able to attract many big names to our annual fund raisers which we raise pretty good money every year for local candidates. Here on FR I have helped promote our TV talk show thread week after week and we have been successful in uncovering many stories that the DBM ignores.If you want more info there are about 50k posts I have made here you can feel free to peruse.
I'M obliviously not in the same league as you are but considering I still work 60-70 hours per week I do as much as I can politically.
My message to many who have decided to stay home and punish the GOP rather than defeat them is that once the primaries are over you lost. It's over.If that conservative candidate is defeated we get what we get and then the choice is to support whomever it is or help the commies.That's the only choice under our system.If you want another system that's nice but its not reality.
I'm not much on helping commie/dems. Never have been never will be.
A perfect example of what I am advocating is the current race for potus in 2016. It's already well under way we are just not participating. We are letting the Hillary monster get a huge head start.
Right now conservatives such as you and I have a perfect shot at supporting a conservative candidate for President of the US in 2016.
We need to pick just one man/woman(Palin/Cruz etc.) get behind them and do everything that is necessary to make sure they win the nomination.If not we will get another Romney, Bush, Christie or worse chosen for us by the GOPe.
So the choice is ours. Do we sit back not vote and punish the Gop-e because we didn't get our way or try and insure we get our way by winning in the primaries? The choice is yours.