The Party Establishment
I worked almost tirelessly this past election season for local and national Republican candidates, as I’m sure many of you did, too, making phone calls, walking in parades, sitting at booths, and putting up a few yard signs. Unfortunately, what I learned of the local party establishment wasn’t good. It simply reinforced what we’ve known for the better part of twenty years, that the old guard Republicans are more interested in electing Republicans, regardless of what that candidate believes, than they are in electing the right people. They don’t care about anything except keeping in power those who already are.
Those same people are the Moderates that pushed for candidates like McCain, not seemingly to realize that we’ll never win any votes by not offending anyone. We all saw where that got us.
It’s time for a new direction, even locally. If we expect to ever regain Congress or the White House, or even certain governorships, we must work hard to recruit the right people, based upon their values and beliefs and not their voter registration card. Blindly supporting RINOs and Liberal Republicans (yes, they do exist!) is not our ticket back to D.C. in 2010. Strong conservative ideals are.
Here is my challenge: vote for Conservative Republican candidates only. If a candidate is a RINO, vote for neither candidate, but then write your local GOP and tell them why (maybe before you vote!) We must send a message that we will no longer stand for candidates that do not represent our ideals!
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Thanks!
That’s the problem activist find in party organizations in both parties. Democratic County Parties and Republican County Parties are all there to support every single Democrat/Republican on the ballot in November. That’s what they’re for, and that’s what they should be for.
You’ve got to make sure the “right” candidates make it to the ballot in November, which means making sure the candidate you like wins the primary. If your candidate fails in the primary, you can certainly decide not to vote for the victor, but please don’t think you’ll ever convince whole party organizations to join you- unless, of course, the eventual winner is a lunatic (see the Republican candidate for the United State Senate in Montana in 2008).
I enjoy your blog, too- it’s well written and very well designed. I don’t agree with a word you say on it (well, not many words), but you’re still providing a quality community service.
-Kansas Jackass
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