This was the simple genius behind Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts: besides opposing the Monster Hell-th Care Bill, he also campaigned on conservative ideas of lower taxes leading to less government leading to more freedom and prosperity, rather than waging a War On Business and causing businesses to contract.

Another part of his campaign focused on a more effective response to the War On Terror than bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia, where a 13 year-old girl will soon be whipped 90 times for having a cell phone, and apologizing for America’s simple existence, which makes Islamo-Terrorists angry and murderous. The modest surge in Afghanistan might work, but since the surge is c. 50% smaller than what was recommended, I believe many people are skeptical. Not to be forgotten: trials on the East Coast for Arab terrorists was another issue in Massachusetts!

If Republican candidates address these items, they should be successful in most places outside of Harvard Square and Haight-Ashbury.

Not that anyone’s suggesting them all right now:

Health-Care
-Require insurance companies to compete
-Tort-Reform

Immigration
-Secure the Borders
-Require States to enforce already existing laws

Economics
-Balance the Budget
-Constitutional Amendment forbidding the U.S. government from having a deficit
-Forbid earmarks
-Overhaul the tax code (Flat Tax, Fair Tax, ANYTHING)

Overcoming Corruption
-Term Limits on Representatives and Senators
-Double the amount of Representatives in the House so as to force them back closer to the People they actually are supposed to represent. The House is becoming more and more like the Senate with their Aristocratic leanings.
-National ban on gerymandering

Energy
-Increase domestic drilling
-Increase tariffs on foreign (except NAFTA) energy sources
-Provide tax incentives to those developing new alternative energy sources

Social Issues
-Define “Person” as protected in the Constitution as anyone after conception

Anything else?

Yes, setting concrete goals is the key. Then work backwards from there.

We decent Americans outnumber the socialist/liberal/Commies. But we are splintered. And we don’t realize this is, in the end, about one thing and one thing only — getting more people to vote for OUR candidates in the general elections. We conservatives need to UNITE within the Republican Party itself at the grass roots, precinct committeeman level. HALF these slots were empty, nationwide, on Election Day, 2008. And split about 50-50 between conservatives and liberals/moderates/RINOs. That ration would go to 75-25 in favor of conservatives IF conservatives would INVADE the Party and fill up these empty slots. It’s happening. We’re making it happen where I live.

HOW do we offer the electorate a choice, not an echo, at the general election? (As Scott Brown did?) We conservatives do it by making sure a conservative candidate wins the all-important, traditionally very-low-turn-out primary election.

HOW? By making sure conservatives outnumber liberals/moderates/RINOs in “the most powerful office in the world” — the precinct committeeman positions.

WHY? Because then those conservative PCs can vote to endorse the BEST conservatives in the primaries and help get out the vote for those conservative candidates. Primary elections, historically, have VERY low turnout. If a majority of the PCs are conservatives working hard to get the vote out in those crucial primary contests, for the BEST conservative candidates, then the BEST conservative candidates WILL win.

“We the [conservative] people” are slowly waking up. But holding a sign at a rally doesn’t really change anything. ONLY real, grass roots, in the trenches political participation does. And that happens at your monthly local GOP meetings.

In my legislative district in Tempe, Arizona, we conservative precinct committeemen, through aggressive recruiting at Tea Parties and hell-th care protests, etc., have DOUBLED our PC ranks since January, 2009, and almost all of the recruits are conservative.

Go here to read what I wrote about it earlier: http://www.redstate.com/stix/2009/12/08/conservatives-and-the-gop/#comment-131

And we have gone, county-wide, since Election Day, 2008, having 31 per cent of our 6,231 precinct committeeman slots filled to 53 per cent — the most ever in Maricopa County GOP history. Read about our success here: http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2010/01/16/jd-hayworth-creams-mccain-in-straw-poll-at-maricopa-county-rep-party-annual-meeting-sources-a-more-conservative-party/

I believe the number one priority of every conservative should be becoming a voting member of the Republican Party — a precinct committeeman. THEN we have a chance of sweeping the 2010 general elections. But first, we have to make sure the BEST conservatives win the primaries.

In my humble opinion.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
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