The Party should be going to these tea parties and recruiting. But, of course, the incumbents are TERRIFIED of these “ruffians.” That’s why, with rare exceptions, they won’t. The incumbents, even the Mike Pences and Tom Prices and Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns won’t say a word about this to these conservative crowds.

So, I and others will keep trying to make contact with the leaders of the tea party and 9.12 and WeSurroundThem and other “patriot” groups and try to convince them to urge their members into the Republican Party as precinct committeemen.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior

It is fascinating and disturbing at the same time, like watching a train wreck, or Faces Of Death.

Back in the late ’80s we had a band of insurgent malcontents in our largest union, an independent employee association. The malcontents, self-styled freedom fighters against the entrenched power of the old guard, hooked up with a big national union and ultimately were able to decertify the local association and take over. At first, the national guys let the local malcontents stay in office and act important. We wouldn’t collect dues for them and they had no money as the result, so they were totally dependent on the national for both expense money and staff salaries. Yet, the “revolutionaries” didn’t get that they really were irrelevant. They came up and demanded an audience and my then-boss was stupid enough to give them one. Of course, they came in and huffed and puffed and told us how they were going to blow our house down. I got tired of listening and told them we had no intention of doing anything with them except the bare minimum of what the law required, that we weren’t going to see them again except in formal negotiation sessions, and that we weren’t going to involve them in anything because we were certain that the national organization would take over and send them all to the outer darkness within a few weeks. Of course, they told us how stupid we were and how we’d pay for not showing them the respect they deserved. Few weeks later, we get a letter signed by obviously not written by the president informing us that all the representation duties and all negotiations will be handled by the national staff which will then designate a bargaining team from the membership. Within six months NOT ONE of the orginal orgainizing group and founding officers had any position in the union and all power was in the hands of the DC office of the national union.

Since Republicans are usually “right” on the issues and normally will have a majority of the electorate, the Ds can’t really say out loud what they stand for, so they have to run this sort of campaign. We need better organization and much better internal communication, but we don’t need to do the same stuff the Ds do because we don’t have to hide our candidates and issues. We just have to focus on responding to the slime machine, their way of suppressing our turnout, and on actually getting out the vote.