Distract them, create racial unrest, remove their rewards, spread the wealth and grow the government. That is what Obama and gang are doing right in front of our eyes and the old saying is, ‘first time shame on you and second time shame on me.” We can’t blame anyone but ourselves if we buy into “Obamanism” the second time.
It’s a smokescreen, illusion that is used to divert the attention of Americans. Don’t buy into the Obama theatrics anymore. Keep our eyes on the ball, continue with the tea parties, town hall meeting, blogs, strengthening our family units and work towards a better tomorrow.
Obama spent 2009 creating diversions for Americans, a misused stimulus bill, many programs that were poorly orchestrated along with promises made but broken.
What we have been exposed to the past 15 months is a corrupt Administration preparing us for the “road to socialism.”
Now in 2010, we’re getting more of the same ole, same ole – the oil exploration on the coast doesn’t equate to more jobs or better fuel prices; it is merely a ploy to buy time while Obama starts the next reforms for illegal liens and creates a bigger government.
We need to ruthlessly insist on our agenda, smaller government, transparency, removal of earmarks, a budget that will start paying back the National Deficit and real jobs. We must stop the runaway spending and take back our government by regaining our voice!
If we concentrate on these things, our economy will start to rebound, but if we are distracted with Obama’s games – 2010 will be another repeat of 2009. This is a time in our lives that we must put personal preferences behind and work together to restore our economy and place our Nation back on its once strong foundation.
Probably the best way to make the tough calls at this time is to get our ducks all in a row. Without jobs, the recession will not improve noticeably, with bigger government we will lose even more of our freedoms and if the uncontrolled spending continues we will face a depression. We must stand up for our country and make 2010 the year that Americans took back their government and monitored daily those who work for us…
We are the people and we need a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It’s our duty to leave America a safe and secure haven for our children and the next generations.
Tboca says, remember the Nazarene and his small group of people – they changed the world! Everyone needs to vote in November and we need to be vetting candidates as we speak.
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ColdWarrior (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 2:16PM EST (link)And we need to UNITE somewhere to do this.
Where? That’s easy. INSIDE the Republican Party. As voting members of it. As precinct committeemen.
Our forbears have handed us a traditional two-party political system that we conservatives haven’t been using for about four decades. We got complacent. We figured things were “good enough” that we could cede the battlefield to others. No more.
Now we’re at the point that many who profess to be “conservative political activists” have never been to a local GOP meeting in our lives. Never! I asked for a show of hands at the Redstate gathering during the American Majority presentation for the precinct committeemen in the room. Not very many hands went up.
Goal: get conservatives elected.
How?: Get them on the general ballot.
How?: Make sure a conservative wins the Republican primary election.
How? Get to your local GOP meeting, become a precinct committeeman, find out who the conservative candidates are (they candidates come to these meetings) and then get out the vote for the BEST conservative candidates.
Our paramount goal as “conservative political activists” should be to get every conservative we know to get to their local GOP meeting to become a precinct committeeman so we can elect better, more conservative leaders and make sure we vet and elect the best conservative candidates in the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections.
A half-strength Party is just that — half-strength. Based on the numbers of conservatives who go to the Tea Parties and townhalls, there’s no reason why we should not be able to turn our Republican party from a half-strength (half the PC slots were vacant nationwide in 2008), ideologically-split (PCs elected the delegates who elected faux conservative Michael Steele as RNC Chairman) weakling of a party into a full-strength conservative powerhouse (that 50-50 split between conservatives and RINOs in the Party would go to 75-25 overnight if conservatives — like those here at Redstate — invaded the Party and filled up all the vacant PC slots). Become a PC is NOT hard. The duties are NOT onerous.
Get in the real ball game of politics. Become a PC.
Some time ago, apparently, the Republican Party slowly morphed from its traditional precinct-focused “get out the vote” efforts and organization to “get out the vote” efforts by running slick radio, TV and print ads. Marketing replace good-old-fashioned party politics at the grass roots, neighborhood level.
Let’s take a look at where we’re at right now in terms of concerned conservatives wanting to “do something.” We’ve got:
ResistNet.com
iCaucus
Anystreet.org
9.12 projects
Tea Party Nation
Tea Party Patriots
Tea Party Network
Tea Party Express
Campaign for Liberty
Republican Assemblies
and on, and on, and on.
All trying to vet candidates. All trying to build local, county, state, regional and national “coordinators” to do the exact kinds of things one would do if they’d just UNITE inside the Republican Party itself.
Now, the last two I mentioned, Campaign for LIberty (libertarians trying to recruit more libertarians into the Republican Party) and Republican Assemblies (conservative Republicans with their own caucus trying to recruit more conservatives into the Party) have it right, but they haven’t had too much success. Yet.
I simply do not understand why some seem to think that our traditional two-party system is not good enough. We haven’t been using it. Here in AZ, over TWO-THIRDs of the PC slots in the 2008 election cycle were vacant.
Here are the numbers for my county, Maricopa (surrounds Phoenix) on Election Day, 2008:
694,000 registered Republicans
Statutory PC slots for those 694,000 voters: 6,231
Filled: 1,989.
Showed up at the County Convention to elect leaders, in person or by proxy: About 1,100
Number of votes by which the conservative candidate for chairman beat the well-known McCain RINO: TWENTY.
We conservatives have ceded the field of battle where the war is being fought: in party politics.
Fix the Republican Party FIRST.
I am amazed at how many people chatter away all day on the net to the conservative choir about their latest idea for what “the Republican Party” must do — without actually being IN it. If one wants to change the Republican Party, and have it do their bidding, the ONLY way to do it is to get inside it. We conservatives could take over the Republican Party if . . . drum roll . . . we just would get out of our chairs and away from our keyboards and get to our local GOP meetings en masse and TAKE OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Last night I was at my County GOP Executive Guidance Council meeting. I’m an “at large” delegate along with four other conservatives elected in January at our annual meeting by all the PCs that attended (this time, about 1,900). This is where the ball game is played. We’re having a Lincoln Day dinner on April 10 to honor the PCs. We selected J.D. Hayworth to speak. The McCain folks are livid. The meeting got contentious. A resolution was proposed intended to somehow chastise the Committee for having selected J.D. (He won’t be speaking as a candidate and no campaigning will be allowed.) A McCain person whipped out her little FlipVideo to record it all. Some guy got in my face at one point when I had the temity to point out that last year Rep. Jeff Flake spoke at the Lincoln Day Dinner (the guy had made the point that elected reps. had NEVER spoken before). The resolution was ruled out of order by the chairman by voice vote. After open consultation with the Committee’s lawyer. The McCain supporter who asked for the resolution demanded a recorded voice vote. Limp dicks “abstained.” The ayes carried the chairmans’ point of order by a 10-8 margin.
(Before the drama, Ward Connerly spoke about the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative and his latest book. He also talked about the fact that the reason we’re in the political pickle we’re in is because — you guessed it — too many conservatives have not been involved where it matters — in local grass roots party politics in the Republican Party.)
We have a two party system. We should be focusing on getting conservatives to fill up the empty PC slots. That’s what I believe every “conservative political activist” should be focusing on. We conservatives need to UNITE. The BEST place to do that is INSIDE the Republican Party itself.
If any one has a better strategy, I’m all ears.
Thank you.
ColdWarrior
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