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I can understand how he feels. The party hierarchy, in many states, follows the well-worn path of all movements, inevitably transitioning from a revolution to toll booths collecting money just shy of the cost of their own maintenance. Their Reason-for-being functions crowded out by the self-continuity functions, until the latter is all that remains.

An answer may be a kind of revolution, the innovation arising from necessity, in and out of the Party apparatus. It requires audacity, a quality the Usurper did not invent. It requires boldness. From experience, I see now tossing one's hands up and walking away usually does not work. Someone has to make the motion, as they say. A motion to adjourn is always in order, and takes precedent over all other motions... but often great controversies that finally come to a head in front of an angry executive committee gathered to confront such a controversy continue on because everyone was waiting for someone else to make the motion.

Jesse Helms, here in North Carolina, left at least two great examples. When he readied for re-election campaigns, he always proceeded from the assumption that the state and local party did not exist. He essentially set up his own Party apparatus running parallel to the Party, without waiting for endorsements and without insulting anyone on the local or state level. Rather he paid deferred respect and showed up at the meetings, or sent representatives but he never counted on the Party to be there for him. Great if they showed, but never something to depend on.

In addition, no one knew how to handle media bias better, and the media hated him with a purple passion, much the same way as the legacy media hates all Republicans today, moderate or otherwise, as unifying objects of hatred.

Jesse knew what was assumed to be controversial by the media mandarins was certain to be trumpeted over hill and dale. So he deliberately couched a message he wanted widely broadcast within a narrative certain to be controversial. It worked very well, by the way.

Reason-for-being functions crowded out by the self-continuity functions, until the latter is all that remains.

That pretty much sums up the state of affairs in "Colorado”’s RINOcratic Kleptocracy. I say "Coloarado"'s because, unlike those few of us who were born and raised here, the parrots who pretend to speak for us WERE NOT.

Meanwhile, the carpetbaggers who’ve invested in both sides of the aisle will frack themselves a fortune as Useful Idiots like governor Chickenlooper pave the way.

At least the transplanted CA/NY Libertardians can “legally” inhale and self-medicate themselves into oblivion - and the sooner the better.

I’ve adopted a new theorem concerning Republicans, and I’m using this sort of story as an experiment to see if I’m correct in my assumption.

Republicans know they are in deep trouble. They have a negative reputation on the political market. The media never covers positive Republican outcomes, actions, or ideas. They cannot win in an argument in the current political climate, and they are falling short on many fundraising goals on which they’ve previously succeeded.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have a fawning media complex, an adoring, vocal minority of Americans in large cities standing by them, and a Marxist president doing everything in his power to stoke anger and resentment against any opposition.

The Republicans, in multifaceted attempts to “reinvent themselves” have taken to adopting previously extremist attitudes toward disarmament, illegal immigrants, homosexuality, and financial affairs. As such, they are hemorrhaging support from their base in a futile attempt to lure a small constituent of voters over to their side, a constituency that has little money to give them anyway.

My theorem is as such: the Republican establishment, mostly RINOs, are taking leftist views, appointing left-of-center candidates and representatives to political and non-political offices in the GOP establishment, and leftists, not wanting to let a crisis go to waste, are grooming criminals and politically ambitious men and women to invade the GOP, thus providing negative talking points for Democrats and the media to use against them.

There are, of course, outliers, and many of them appear to be so far RIGHT of center as to be undesirable to a broad swath of men and women who consider themselves to be Republicans. These “Christian Right” candidates are using the church, in its many forms, to push agendas or ideas that are so unpalatable as to be vomit-inducing, much like the gentleman up for the senate seat out of Missouri. The media then spins it that we are ALL like him, and we’re left back on our heels in defense.

The real fight needs to come from the conservatives among us. We need to stand up for ideals ensconced in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We need to stand up for God in the public square and not push ignorance in the form of misinformation. If we can win the public in the war of ideas and espouse true conservative American principles, push the idea of exceptionalism and nationalism in the vein of pride, and show all Americans that we stand for inclusion of all races and creeds but will not stand for ideas that are counter to our Judeo-Christian pedigree, then, and only then, will we see a resurgence in the idea of Americanism not just in the form of nationalism but as an ethos.

The GOPe is self-destructing, and like Obama’s “declination management plan” for the nation, the GOP is being forced into obscurity through a series of missteps and poor management decisions that I personally believe are being orchestrated by those in positions of power. A decentralized party apparatus in the form of the TEA Party and other Constitution-centered political platforms needs to emerge for us to take back the nation we all knew and loved.