First, let me say that I did not mean my last post to suggest that you were unfamiliar with the gerrymandering shenanigans of the democratic party in MA. My remark was aimed toward non-residents of our glorious Commonwealth.
Secondly, I fully agree with you argument that a change needs to be made. The Republican Party has been in a state of complete ineffectuality on Beacon Hill for several decades. Its only achievement has been to elect a string of powerless governors whose chief function has been to act as the official scapegoat whenever the latest hare-brained Democratic scheme blows up in the legislature’s faces. The money spent on those gubernatorial adventures would, IMO, be far better spent on developing a grass roots political guerilla movement in the local cities and towns. When you really get down to it, much of the reason for the democrats’ dominance of the legislature is that so many seats simply go uncontested each election.
I think some of those RINO Governors were complicit in destroying the viability of the MA GOP (and that’s not the only state, either). I see Weld finally gave up his farce of an act of claiming he was ever a Republican when he endorsed the False Messiah (and Slick Willard might as well follow suit, he’s as much of a Republican as Coupe DeVille).
I was reading this article about Torkildsen, who is quitting as GOP Chief after apparently doing... zilch. Torkildsen must’ve lost touch with reality when he uttered this gem: “I will not rest until we have Senate President Richard Tisei and Speaker of the House Brad Jones.” Was Pete aware the difficulty of getting a Speakership from a party holding 12% of the seats (now 10%) ? The goal is to get rid of the Country Clubber Brahmin elitists holding onto a paper-only party. If we turned it into a strictly Conservative party, we could get it up to at least 25-30% with hard work. A majority goal at this point is ludicrous, we just need a solid bloc of Conservatives there to toss sabot into the ultraleft workings. Once we’ve gotten that nice 1/3rd bloc, we can build on that.
If we don’t do that, we might as well just hire a Democrat to run the state GOP, since they couldn’t shrink it that much (what, 8%, 5% ?). Worse, too, what few Republicans are left in the legislature are left-wingers that scarcely differ from their Democrat friends. They are ALL a part of the problem.