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Your political savvy is better than mine. I wish Conservatives would overtake all of the GOP leadership, but the leadership is going to fight back hard. I don’t any solution except to elect more tea party candidates and give them longevity - then Conservatives would have the support they need to have key leadership positions. As long as the RINOs dominate the party, I just don’t see that changing. The voters are idiots with the GOP voters electing RINOs and the Dem voters electing outright communists. We are being back-stabbed by our fellow voters.

Here's the thing about electing more conservatives, they need to get pass the primaries first, which would sound easy enough, but the way the Republican Senatorial Committee has it, its quite difficult.

The RSC recruits candidates to run (often, RINO's), then funds and supports them (and if a true conservative also chooses to run, he is at the disadvantage against the "establishment" candidate who gets the partys "incumbent" treatment). With the party essentially working against the conservative candidate, it discourages true conservatives, and when they run, punishes them.

If a true conservative manages to win the primary (no small task), talking points of painting said conservative as being a nut job have been established (with the additional credibility of having come from the GOP in the first place), which are then used in the general election by the democrats (and allies in the media).

In the face of all these overwhelming odds, the tea party has still managed to elect conservatives to the senate (which says alot about the power of the grassroots). If the Jim DeMint had taken over this committee (and John Cornyn has had it pretty much handed to him), he could have cultivated the base, recruited, and supported true conservatives and eased the difficulty they have.

Even running and losing, would have put pressure on Cornyn to at least try for more conservative candidates or watch his step when dealing with true conservatives, as opposed to punishing them. Keep in mind, that DeMint has now stated that he will NOT seek to oust incumbent republican senators via primaries, meaning getting true conservatives elected via challenging democrats or via open seats is now the only way. Thats why that job is so important, if you control the farm system, you control what type of product comes out of it.