With respect to your local party, it will only change from the bottom up. You take it over one precinct at a time. And that one is a very winnable battle, for example Maricopa County in Arizona – where John McCain’s legal residence is – has a distinctly anti-McCain GOP organization.

These are not exact quotes, but all should be close. I don’t know how Skinner kept a straight face.

Meanwhile, I’m afraid many precincts are consigned to repeating failed tactics and expecting different results. We’ll eventually work through this….but I’m convinced that new blood confidently speaking eternal truths and solid conservative positions will be needed to carry the day….machine politics or not. Better stated, the right candidate cures all party ills; the wrong candidate will likely fail regardless of the party machine…..either at the ballot or, sadly, while in office. Coincidentally, that’s where we’re at right now: leaderless….and we keep fishing candidates out of the shallow end of the pool.

Finally, with respect to my suggested SCOTUS nominee tactic, I’m willing to concede that better ideas may be out there….I’d just like to see/hear them. As things stand, our team will whine for awhile then capitulate…..as usual. That sort of predictability doesn’t make for much of an adversary. Our tactics should at minimum upset the Obama juggernaut. If we can actually score a win here and there, so much the better. It’s way past time to start thinking outside the box.

We need fresh blood. Either “we” go find some or “we” are going to bleed. And throwing out a list of judiciary candidates that would be “acceptable” to Republicans isn’t going to do anything about the former and will make sure the latter happens even when we eventually win. We will be in leg irons long after 2012 with that little gambit.

So, again, it won’t be about “Hispanics:” on Republicans part anyway but will be blatant pandering for re-election votes by/for Obama, though some people will of course resort [Janine Gagalow for one] to their first defense which is accusations without basis of RACISM, when Republicans challenge the probable pick – potentially Sonia Sotomayor for only one. It will be about the usual Ultra-Liberal ACTIVISM they’ve engaged in rather than pursuit of EQUAL JUSTICE! Remember, it wasn’t about Gonzalez’s background other than what would have been his desire to adhere to Rule Of Law – and with Obama’s picks it will be about their Activism to Legislate from the Bench rather than uphold Law.

Please assume that I will continue to respond to all further commentary with a curt “Nobody is coming to save your district. Go save it yourself;” I need to go to bed.

How many politicians like him keep getting returned to the DC echo chamber only to squat on the ball? We’re in a death-fight for Liberty. These retired-on-the-job folks need to politely step down or be vigorously challenged. We are in bad need of fresh blood and a lot better political strategy. The status quo will have us in leg irons by 2012.

Amazing to me how some people do not get that trying to down-play Race to eliminate Racism on one hand while promoting with “Special Rights” and/or designations on the other, won’t/doesn’t just fuel the flames of it in some instances. There is no such thing as Reverse-Discrimination, it is all discrimination regardless of what direction the RACISM is based from and to – and EQUAL PROTECTIONS demands that we actually start treating people equally or we can never truly have a “Color-blind” society that the Left loves to harp about (while they promote Racist policy to keep Racial divisions and allow them to keep Power by pitting one Race, Class, Sex, etc, against the other). Yet Obama talks about a SCOTUS nominee needing to have Empathy, rather than Judicial Branch goal/concept/notion of EQUALITY – Blind justice!!! If discrimination in the Courts is the notion of Progressives, how is that Progress?!?!? (see also: Obama in Obama’s 2001 Redistributive Justice video)

The whole thing SCOTUS Empathy

How about let’s battle the immediate apocalypse. Posturing now for a conservative Justice that couldn’t be nominated till 2013 earliest is exactly the kind of political “strategy” that’s got our team in a fetal position sucking their respective thumbs.

Frankly, waiting to fight against Obama’s announced nominee is not only stupid but it’s completely counterproductive. First, unless the nominee is a literal card-carrying Socialist, he/she will eventually be confirmed anyway. Second, efforts to block confirmation without plenty of cause is just going to be seen as obstructionism….and Republicans take yet another credibility hit. The ONLY way to battle effetively is to get ahead of Obama in an offensive posture. Per my suggestion, set the standard for “moderate” then step back and watch him deal with it. Waiting to act until the nominee is announced is too late.

will receive NRSC backing over a challenger who wouldn’t.

Hope the minority members on Senate Judicial committee fight like Hell over any of O’s picks (add the letter ‘r’ in between ‘p’ and ‘i’ for how I really think).

They’re probably gonna cave though. There’s just no fight in them it seems.

It might be a strategy whereby the House GOP allow things to go all wrong for the Dems, hoping it’ll lead to success in 2010. But with lifetime judicial appointments, that’s not a good plan in this case.

No activist belongs in court, unless they’re the defendant.