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‘Rules for Patriots’ sounds a little like a “me too” copy of ‘Rules for Radicals’.

A plan is needed; but what is needed more is a protocol that can call to order an organization that represents patriot conservatives.

The Left has a ready made organization in its union support. The SEIU can quickly form an ‘ACORN’ or ‘OFA’.

But an organization needs money.

The funds via unions are already there with union lawyers acting as controllers and providing access to bailout funds (e.g. UAW exemption but fed gov funds to bailout GM). A lot of funding to the Left flows from union dues of government employees and importantly it is a consistent flow of funds. This is a gorilla warfare tactic where skirmishes result in gaining money and arms to support larger skirmishes. The Left has learned how to suck money from the federal government for their political purposes.

How does the GOP get funds to fight? They look for who has it but almost every person that has funds for the GOP is a moderate or progressive, e.g. Romney, Jeb Bush, Meg Whitman, John McCain, Carly Fiorina and on and on.

The Tea Party and funds?

Yes, the Tea Party is capable of raising tens of millions even a few hundred million in 72 hours as was done in 2010. This is what strikes deep dear into the Left, why they label the Tea Party as racists and terrorists and why they disrupt the Tea Party groups from organizing further through IRS harassment. But the fund raising capability of the Tea Party groups is inconsistent. Sarah Palin and Jim Demint are superstars in this arena of fundraising and directing.

Most Tea Party conservatives are working class and simply don’t have the funds to go up against the imperial troopers that occupy the Beltway. It’s about the money. Money is what funds wars and working stiffs don’t have it individually.

But they have it collectively.

And to finance a war from small donations requires a tight knit set of groups that are well organized.

I like how the Tea Party groups are hard to define and how they are decentralized. The Revolutionary War was fought with small bands running the well-organized and well-funded British around in circles.

But the battles that were decisive in the Revolutionary War were fought with a Continental Army funded by a Continental Congress using what few dollars they controlled or land grants to the Midwest Territories.

It’s a little known fact that George Washington was a land surveyor and performed land surveys during his service in the French-Indian Wars. The land tracts he surveyed and recorded were used as a means to compensate Continental Army Officers in lieu of money. General Washington solved a great deal of the finance problems for the war. His faculty with finances and his brilliance as a strategist and tactician is what defeated the strongest army in the world in that time.

An Army needs to eat and be armed. The Continental Army braved the harshest of conditions with their passion and devotion. But still money was needed to operate.

The Tea Party leader that has the respect of the various Tea Party factions, who can make pleas for funds and have the various factions respond passionately with funds, will be the George Washington that defeats the ruling class.

The problem with money is that it causes persons that are granted access to it to sell their souls and love it, covet it. We see that in the GOPe class. They are sellouts.

Money is not the root of all evil. The ‘Love’ of money is the root of all evil. The money raised for conservative purposes is for funding the war against the Left and to ***continue*** to fund and support winners of elections so they are armed against the onslaught of special interests who will attack and seduce them from every angle. For example, Ted Cruz is well-funded from outside the Beltway and this gives him independence.

The GOPe are also well-funded but they are at the mercy of large banks, the Federal Reserve and special favors carved out from legislation and regulation. The GOPe is not independent. They are bought off.

Those that work in financing the war of conservative patriots may never be known to the grass roots, but they will certainly be unsung heroes for helping to preserve the Constitution and its Bill of Rights which taken together make America unique in history.