The first step in “changing the Republican Party” is to figure out what a republican is.
I’d be happy to spell it out if anyone is still interested in such things at Free REPUBLIC.
The first and most important part is in my tagline.
Considering the rules changes implimented by the GOP in August, and the fact that the GOP is filled top down with liberals who run arch-liberals as their top candidate, I cannot be convinced by logic or reason that any ‘retaking’ (or other synonyms) is possible, much less sensible.
The first thing any thinking person has to do is ask themselves the following...
“Is it more sensible to devote the time and resource that would be required (and both are in VERY short supply) to ‘save’ a thoroughly corrupted and wholly discredited albatross, or devote those scarce resources to a new party without all the baggage”?
It is a no brainer.
The infrastructure of the GOP is every bit the arm of the Dem party that the GOP ‘management’ is. That’s not honestly debatable by anyone who is serious. Considering the GOP and Dems trade aides, fundraisers, bundlers et all like baseball cards.
And further, the likes of the Roves, Bohners and ‘moderate’ types in thegop must be kept out or we will see the takeover of any startup just as happened with the TEA party. Notice all the NAME GOP types that started pulling for all the conservative ideas in the beginning, suddenly started preaching the moderate/Romney gospel when the election drew near.
And hundreds of thousands of TEA types fell for it hook line and sinker because they were ‘conservative’ and could not bear to buck the GOP when it mattered most.
Is my disgust showing? It should.
EV, I will say it again. If all the people mocking you and those who believe as you do voted for you or another actual conservative instead of forming the Liberal Appreciation Society of Free Republic, we could actually accomplish something.