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How Conservatives Are Readying Their ‘Grassroots Army’ For 2016
KPBS-TV ^ | February 28, 2015 | Emily Martinez, NPR

Posted on 02/28/2015 2:55:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 02/28/2015 2:55:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 02/28/2015 2:58:34 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No Christians or Tea Partyers need apply.
3 posted on 02/28/2015 3:13:23 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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Huh?


4 posted on 02/28/2015 3:19:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Oh, they'll use their bodies, if they are naive enough to allow it (just like Rove did); but, they won't honor their issues.
5 posted on 02/28/2015 3:26:02 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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I no longer consider myself a part of the republican grass roots base.


6 posted on 02/28/2015 3:33:58 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
I want to know the who, what, when, where and why of American Majority and how they are going to fight how the left Organized the Organized.

I hope they have something up and running like this website soon.

http://neworganizing.com/

This Organization is under the radar and connects all the lefties and cross funding and training, an they are 10 years ahead of us.

A series of unrelated unconnected rebels trying to overcome this? maybe, I wish them well....

7 posted on 02/28/2015 3:42:25 PM PST by taildragger (It's Cruz, Pence, or Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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Welcome Home

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Please handle it today

8 posted on 02/28/2015 3:54:35 PM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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Donna, I think Ted Cruz has the Tea Party’s best interests at heart. What makes you think differently?

“Abolish the IRS!”


9 posted on 02/28/2015 4:02:06 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
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Here's a thread from 2009 and my post at the time:

We shouldn't be attacking our own (Christie Whitman Barf)
11 NOVEMBER 2009 | POLITICO

Christie Todd Whitman is a colossal hypocrite:

The Committee for Responsible Government (CRG) was founded by a group of moderate Republicans in 1992 as a response to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas where Pat Buchanan gave the address known as the “culture war” speech.

The Republican Leadership Council (RLC or RLC-PAC), founded in 1993 as the Committee for Responsible Government, is a political advocacy group and political action committee that promotes Republican candidates who espouse a platform that the organization characterizes as “fiscally conservative, socially inclusive.

Senator John Danforth and Governor Christine Todd Whitman created the political organization...

Also, they changed many of the state primary rules so that ‘open primaries’ would allow for more RINO’s to be nominated.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384392/posts
10 posted on 02/28/2015 4:05:11 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: PreciousLiberty

What’s his plan to reclaim the social issues from the federal judges?


11 posted on 02/28/2015 4:07:58 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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"He then asked the audience to take our their cell phones and text the word 'Constitution' to a number he repeated."

I don’t know what Cruz said about the Constitution. But I suspect that if you asked people in the audience what the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I is that you’d get a bunch of blank looks. And if such is the case then people are foolishly relying on others to know the Constitution for them.

12 posted on 02/28/2015 4:25:20 PM PST by Amendment10
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American Majority and AFP-Americans For Progress (and maybe other groups) are in competition for the shoes of volunteer activists.

American Majority will ultimately support the establishment.
AFP will be anti-establishment but not all local AFP groups will support the same alternative..at least not at the beginning.

Historically the paid consultants (both establishment and otherwise) didn’t want any volunteer they couldn’t control. And they got paid by a percentage of the TV buy. so there was nothing in an army of door-knockers for the paid consultant. AFP is changing that and American Majority is trying to play catchup. that American Majority and not AFP was able to capture this CPAC workshop Tells you something about how CPAC is run by ACU. Remember ACU was anti-Ronald Reagan because Reagan was not in the conservative establishment (not to be confused with the Republican establishment).


13 posted on 02/28/2015 5:09:58 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: donna

We’ve seen it coming, huh. W was a big disappointment for me right up front when he went ahead with Powell as SOS after he had refused to endorse Bush during the recount.


14 posted on 02/28/2015 6:17:25 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: onyx

me too, I watched his whole speech there.
There were some things that he did to audience going
but that was ok with me. This man has the MORAL FIBER
to lead this country NOT Rand Paul


15 posted on 02/28/2015 7:05:24 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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CRUZ or lose.

16 posted on 02/28/2015 8:02:13 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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at this point, I agree.

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17 posted on 02/28/2015 8:23:34 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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hugs & TY!


18 posted on 02/28/2015 11:13:58 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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To: taildragger

From NOI website

“Of course, winning alone isn’t enough. It’s the way we win that matters. Whether waging a Presidential campaign or jumpstarting a farmer’s market, Engagement Organizers live by four core principles:

Fight. Stand up and take responsibility, not just to criticize the world, but to forge a path forward.

Engage. Invite others to join the fight, not just as bodies or wallets, but as whole people, with brains, skills, networks, and so much more.

Learn. Rigorously analyze what’s working and what’s not, and empower everyone on the campaign with that data.

Win. Settle for nothing less than real, concrete change that measurably improves our lives.”

There’s no magic in the NOI approach.


19 posted on 03/01/2015 4:01:51 AM PST by Makana (Self-esteem is the new intelligence - Greenfield)
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To: donna

Those are the conservative activists they are talking about, Donna. CPAC is not a meeting of Rinos.

But, if we end up with another rino, like Jeb, conservatives won’t be able to get out the vote for that - more of the abusive same. He’s got the elite money people behind him due to the desire for homo dominance, open borders and amnesty.


20 posted on 03/01/2015 4:36:31 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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