Bottom line, we cannot just depend on radio talk shows and fox news to deliver the election. We need stronger, LOCAL organization.
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Agreed. And local organization cannot wait until a moderate candidate selects an exciting running mate. How about a strong conservative from the get go?
Amen to your ideas. Look, I am from North Carolina. If I am the Senator Richar Burr, who will be running for reelection in 2010, he needs to get his butt off and start organizing at local levels. For god sake, we lost North Carolina because of just 3 counties. In most of this counties, there was not even a precinct chairman and the vote margins was 75% to 25%. If you are a democrat, you work on three counties and you win the whole state.
We need to do the reverse engineering. Get into these heavy democrat counties and reduce the margin by 15 to 20%. It is not rocket science.
The system we used favored the moderate. Too many conservatives had them splitting the vote, and when added with the winner-take-all system, that meant they slowly had to drop out.
Better a system of primary delegates apportioned proportionally state-by-state. They'd still be splitting the vote, but they wouldn't be getting so far behind, either.
A conservative caucus within the party would also help. They would endorse up to only 2 or 3 true conservative candidates per primary season.