Comments on: A Time for Leaders

By: MrsNachos

MrsNachos — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:29:21 +0000

By: ColdWarrior

ColdWarrior — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:26:43 +0000

and I tell them essentially the same thing you do.
Thank you for becoming a fellow conservative precinct committeeman. And thank you to the rest of you who have done the same! “We are the ones we have been waiting for!”

<;^)

ColdWarrior

By: Socrates

Socrates — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:36:42 +0000

I needed 10 signatures from registered Republican voters from my precinct, and got 12 in about an hour. Many people were reluctant to reveal their party affiliation, and they invariably turned out to be Republicans. The Democrats and indies were quick to say what they were.

Everyone was amicable, especially since I was able to point and say, for those folks I didn’t already know, that I lived “in that blue house over there.” My last name is on my license plate, and most people revealed that they had seen it in the driveway.

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:07:32 +0000

As far as Montgomery County goes, although I wasn’t in The People’s Republic then, I think it has gotten worse. But it won’t get any better with me sitting on my keister, so its time to do something.

By: Socrates

Socrates — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:56:24 +0000

We believe we shall have to stop having the servants open mail that doesn’t address us by our proper honorific.

By: Brian Hibbert

Brian Hibbert — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:26:21 +0000

It makes me think I got elected judge or something…..

By: Achance

Achance — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:49 +0000

I haven’t done a lot of work this spring and summer because I had some house remodelling and additions to do and since the weather has been pretty nice, when I wasn’t doing that, I was on the boat. Consequently, money hasn’t exactly been free-flowing and SWMBO wanted to go see her mother and sisters. When I started talking about going to ATL, she started talking about how I needed to get off my butt and go to work so I could afford boat gas and galivanting around the Country. Now, her going to see her family in CA is necessary and reasonable travel but my going to see my family in GA and throw in the RS gathering was galivanting around the Country. But, I’m sure you understand that sort of logic, most married men do.

By: Socrates

Socrates — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:57:42 +0000

It will be good practice, and can only lead to good things.

By: Richard Mullins

Richard Mullins — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:45:17 +0000

I hope it works(The time that I lived in Montgomery County,MD it was deep blue[early '80's]).

By: Richard Mullins

Richard Mullins — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:43:09 +0000

I sign up with the Harris County GOP in a minute. The reason I’m going to be here all that long(maybe a few years[It takes that long for certification of an airline]) is my airline is not going to be here but rather in Lake Charles,LA(yes, those in Louisiana I will be your neighbor). Once I’m there, I’ll make my presence know.

By: Socrates

Socrates — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:37:36 +0000

I internalized it, on some level.

By the way, for next year’s Redstate Gathering, I’m sure there will be a hat passed to help get you there.

By: Socrates

Socrates — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:33:13 +0000

I’ve been to a couple of events — the county fair and a town hall — and the minute the pols and candidates find out you’re part of the machine, even at my preliminary stage, they curry your favor. They really suck up, because they want your support and your labor

I tell them straight out: I’m somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, and if they want my support they need to be, too.

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:13:33 +0000

Tomorrow I am headed to a precinct organization training meeting (http://21republicans.com/calendar/event.aspx?id=450). With some luck I will return as a precinct captain.

By: Achance

Achance — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:07:00 +0000

This was back in November: http://www.redstate.com/achance/2008/11/22/2012-think-january-2009/

So, now I’m a precinct chairman. We now have a Governor who doesn’t actively hate Juneau and you can say out loud that you’re a Republican here, though Downtown is still bright Blue still and my suburban district is Purple on the good days. If the Greenies don’t stop it again, the new Kensington gold mine will bring in some people a little more attached to reality than the usual run of government workers and tourism employees/owners. They won’t live downtown, so it should help my district become a lttle more Red.

By: Brian Hibbert

Brian Hibbert — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:54:48 +0000

The left seems to think this is a weakness. Their world view is that there are a few people who are destined to lead and wield the power of government to control the masses. The rest should just follow the leader. The masses can’t make their own signs or decide to attend a town hall meeting without prompting. They must be organized and directed in their actions.

We, on the other hand, are a collection of free thinking individuals who have similar ideals and cooperate to generate a desirable outcome. We are independent thinkers and independent actors. If Rush or Glenn Beck happen to be stating the things we believe, we listen and cheer! They aren’t our leaders so much as people who happen to be able to express ideas well and who have a venue to make those ideas known to a wide audience.

If Rush or Beck get silenced, there are millions of others who still have the same ideas. As you say, we are the majority in this country.

As Moe once said, the cavalry isn’t going to ride in to save us from the socialism currently running wild in this country.
We are the cavalry!

And the precinct committeemen are the sergeants of the cavalry. I hope everyone else here will take the same step Socrates has taken. It’s an easy step and if enough of us take it we will be able to change the direction of this party.