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GOP Convention

Highsider Wrote: Nov 15, 2012 12:14 PM
The fault isn't with the Republican party, per se, it IS with theleadership of the Republican party. The precinct level Republican and the Republican voter are sick of "taking it in the shorts" from these loudmouthed RINO gasbags that have effectively turned our party into the Democrat lite party.They are presently in the catbird seat and it will take a long and politicaly bloody fight to oust them and the system they have rigged against us. I'm not sure that we can win such an effort, but we must try!
Andy544 Wrote: Nov 15, 2012 12:57 PM
Time to walk away from it and start a new political movement. The RINO-dominated GOP is done. There is no place in it for conservative values.
Highsider Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 2:47 PM
Research the success rate of third party efforts over the last 100 years, Andy. It's not too hopefull.

The greatest concentration of true conservatives is already in the Republican Party, they are just NOT in the leadership above the precinct committee level. The Rinos on the upper level have all sorts of barriers in the Party machine to prevent this from happening. The only way to bring conservatism to the top in the party is to take it over at the precinct level where the work is done. The precinct committe that I'm a part of has become all conservative with the exception of one or two plants from above that everyone ignores.
Highsider Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 2:50 PM
If there were more committees in my state like ours, and they ARE slowly forming, we would be able to control the State apparatus and if other states were doing their part we would be able to turn the Republican Party around.

A longer timeline perhaps, than forming a third party, but much more effective.
Highsider Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 2:53 PM
Another caveat. It is much harder to do in large cities than in rural areas.
Any change requires pain. Whatever we are doing now is easy (we think) compared to change, whatever it may be. Changing is hard. It requires us to think anew, to change our habits, our processes, our language. It's venturing out into the unknown. Without a compelling reason, people will stay the same and not change.

People begin to change only when the pain of what they are doing becomes more painful than the pain of change.

Republicans -- it is time for change.

The election last week was painful -- at least for me, a lifetime conservative.

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