Mostly, yes, AuH20 is a ways away and lot warmer. ;d
I haven’t done any activism aside from helping a little with a website if you wanna count that. (pundit, I like that)
Billyboy is an activist. He was on the ballot in ‘08 as Huckabee delegate as I recall.
So is Phil Collins (also in IL). Phil even ran for State Rep this year but was not allowed to be on the primary ballot, they wanted a handpicked RINO, they got him, and he lost the previously GOP held state House seat.
Palin will get my backing by default if her only serious opposition is Romney/Huck/Ect but I’m very open to other candidates.
i guess i am in an easy position to be active in PRES politics. Only 90 minutes from the NH border ... and people in NH do not get active in it becuz they have seen it a dozen times and figure they are the ones with the vote.
They rely on out-of-staters for the footwork. Iowa seemed a bit different, but I am not sure. The technique would be to do phoning to IA from home with an IA area code on a cell phone. And then take a weekend trip to Dubuque area every 6 to 8 weeks to meet your recruits in person.
I would be annoyed if I lived somewhere far from IA NH SC NV. I would be locked out of the action.
One person I know I don’t want on the ballot is another member of the Bush clan. I’d support Romney before voting for another one of them.
Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. Here are four traits that might have helped his campaign, in 1980:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the republican presidential nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.
These Republicans, who might run for president, in 2012, have at least three of those four traits: ex-Gov. Sarah Palin, ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, ex-Gov. Mitt Romney, and ex-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. I hope that all of them will run, along with ex-VP Dick Cheney, Rep. Ron Paul, and Gov. Haley Barbour.
I hope that four of those seven will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will receive the nomination before the convention, causing the convention to be suspenseful and exciting. More people will watch and hear the great republican ideas.
I don’t know whom I would support, but I’ll probably run for convention delegate, again. In 2008, I ran for delegate for Huckabee (in Illinois’ 10th Cong. District), and I got almost 4,000 votes. That was more votes than a state rep. (Suzie Bassi) and the Lake Co. Clerk (Willard Helander), combined.
lately, I’ve been questioning the impact of grassroots activity ... as it seems voters no longer react in a positive way to a doorbell ringer for their candidate or local candidate events.
In NH, a team of 12 people, we hit every door we possibly could for McCain while the Romney team phone banked from an hour a way. Statewide, McCain won by 5%, in our area he won by 10% ... some towns, McCain had a better than 2 to 1 margin. But I frequently doubt that it had much to do with our presence there.
OF course, primaries are not a binary decision, like DEM vs. GOP. Multi-candidate fields, voters often have a 2nd preference, so we were pulling votes from other candidates, not Romney.