[The Watcher]

Ahhh... You’re making the big mistake.

If you want conservative leadership to advance conservatism, you need them OUTSIDE the corrupting influence of Washington DC. You need a movement NOT predicated upon personalities or individual initiatives.

You need a whole “shadow party” whose job is NOT to be a political party, but to keep the GOP on OUR side, not drifting. It needs to be a 50 state organization that raises money, vets candidates, and promotes GOOD PEOPLE to run for office, and has the people, financial, and organizational muscle to keep the GOP in line and to rally conservatives to the fight.

I have proposed this before... Not here. But it is obviously clear. Fred, God love ‘im, just started a PAC. But we don’t need a PAC. They get comfortable with being “in” in DC and that’s not what we need. We need people OUTSIDE the power structure who never forget, never give up, never become complacent and never compromise themselves to drive right thinking candidates to electoral success.

[bruinbirdman]

"But it is obviously clear. Fred, God love ‘im, just started a PAC. But we don’t need a PAC. They get comfortable with being “in” in DC and that’s not what we need. We need people OUTSIDE the power structure who never forget, never give up, never become complacent and never compromise themselves to drive right thinking candidates to electoral success."

You are describing a new political party. Uncontaminated.

The Conservative Party.

yitbos

[votedfortheotherguy]

I’ve had a similar idea to this...but what I would add is, I think we need to draft in people from outside politics to start running in some of these races. I’m not sure if you saw, but a couple weeks ago there was an excellent interview in the Wall Street Journal of Fred Smith, CEO FedEx...he articulated what I believed and why I believed it far more effectively than McCain did the entire race. We’ve got hundreds of thousands of conservative military veterans fresh out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Let’s find some of them and run ‘em. Bring in successful guys from the corporate world, who have actually run something and managed something and have something to show for it.