Posted on 03/28/2009 10:53:58 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Fellow Conservatives,
I'll make this brief, so as not to use more bandwidth than necessary, so graciously provided by our most excellent hosts here at Free Republic.
The major part of conservatism's problems today is a lack of unity and organisation. We're in disarray. We get out-manoeuvred by the Obama ground game. They have 10 million names on call that can be text-messaged or emailed and given marching orders at a moment's notice, and we don't. They work together, even on the parts of their agenda that they don't individually care about, and we don't. We fragment. If it's not "our" issue, or if you deviate from "me" even one iota, then we split up and refuse to work together.
This is idiotic.
We all want to see conservatism resurge. We want to see this country return to the values and practices that made it great. It can. Other than in the area of theological eschatology, I don't believe in the "inevitability" of anything - especially in politics.
I propose that we FReepers start being the nucleus of an organised grassroots effort designed to unite conservatives, unite conservative groups, and unite conservative outlets to get us all on the same page. Unity in this is key. We need to reunite the Reagan coalition, which is still out there.
To this end, I propose that interested FReepers get together and really, seriously, committedly start to brainstorm ideas, and then put them into practice, as to how we can generate the sort of grassroots effort that will produce the results we want. We can no longer just care only about one particular social issue or one particular fiscal issue. We need to get it all together, on the same page, and this needs to be done yesterday!
I propose that conservative, liberty oriented groups work together with conservative elements in the GOP to regain control of this Party and use it as a vehicle to effect OUR change. The GOP already has the apparatus, the network, the organisation, and the national reach - let's take it back, and use it. Sure, the GOP is flawed - but fixing flaws is at the heart of America. Let's take it over and use it.
Please FReepmail me if you are interested in this proposal for conservative unity leading to conservative ACTION. Please FReepmail me if you're concerned about the direction this country is heading in, and you aren't willing to resign yourself to the "inevitable." Please FReepmail me if you think you have good ideas you'd like to bounce off other conservatives about how to do all of this.
Don't FReepmail me if you just want to be a splitter for some ego-trip, pissant third party. Don't FReepmail me if you'd rather just whine about past failures instead of looking forward to future successes. Don't FReepmail me if you're too lazy or too afraid to work hard for what you'd like to see happen in this country.
Conservatives, let's get serious.
Ping!
I couldn't agree more. Lack of unity is the biggest problem. If we unify the organization will follow.
But we also have to work on getting the undercover leftist democrats out of our midst.
I totally agree. My dream for the GOP is to see the Party of Reagan and Goldwater reinvigourated, with the Arlen Specters and Susan Collinses removed, and the Zell Millers in the other party joined to us.
It will take a grassroots effort and a willingness to accept a baseline of agenda items and not quibble at the margin to organize the conservatives at this point.
I campaigned for Goldwater and Reagan in my time and you don’t win by demanding that everyone be conservative in every way on a checklist that is hundreds of items long.
The best way to accomplish all this is to rally around a specific candidate who can carry the day. To me, right now, that candidate is Sarah Palin. She might not be the most conservative or the most brainy or the most this or the most that but, let’s face it, she flat out rocks.
Center the effort around Palin. As daunting as the task of uprooting the Marxist incumbents might be, she could be the one person to pull off a miracle in 2012. And we need a miracle.
Anyone who believes in United States of America, our constitution, our forefathers etc. should wave the American Flag. Show you believe in our country by displaying the red, white & blue. Install a flag pole, hang the flag on your porch, display flag decals on your vehicles. Continue this display so all can see where you stand.
Anyone in? Let your FRiends know!
I’m in Titus...thanks
I agree. That's what seems to fracture FReepers, however.
I've seen it - two people who are both pro-life, but will roundly condemn each other as "RINOs" because the one wants to use federalism to end abortion, but the other thinks it's either go all out for a Human Life Amendment, or nothing. Likewise, two people, both of whom want America economically strong, but the one supports free trade, and the other wants some protections on manufacturing base - each accusing each other of being dirty, charging RINOs.
This junk's got to stop.
We conservatives can have all the arguments about the particulars of policy implementation....AFTER we're in a position to make policy in the first place. Until then, let's organise around a coherent, common sense set of principles and get busy winning America back for conservatism!
Thanks MM!
I’ll be out tending to some family obligations for the next few hours, but let’s all get together on this and get organised! Again, please FReepmail me if you don’t want to post on this thread, but want to unite the Right!
Required reading for all interested Freepers should be Mark Levin’s new book, Liberty and Tyranny, and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. We could start there!
Mr. Robinson, it’s your forum and your gracious hospitality that allows us to be able to even do this! Is there anything you’d like to see done?
I hear Levin’s new book is a MUST READ. Need to get it myself, and that right quick.
I got the book, and I’m with you, Romanus. I think we need to get behind a candidate and start thinking of the next election. There is much to be done. Sadly, here in LA, I do not think it will happen with the local Republican club.
PaleoBob may have a point. It’s great to rally around a name/symbol/flag. It certainly helps. Yet this alone could be divisive and if something unforeseen about the candidate crops up the movement may take a tumble. Just as the netroots and Obamots had an issue [Iraq War] and Bush, we have our own issues too on which we could coalesce.
Think B. Hussein O, the Expansion of Government, National Security, and Abortion. These are defining issues. We don’t need a long list. Hussein is in a diametrically opposite corner to all these issues on which FReeper approval is unanimous. This helps us to weed out the RINOs and CINOs.
Thus Palin will fit this bill but there may be others too (Jindal?)
Any consensus here on this?
Thanks for the ping!
“The major part of conservatism’s problems today is a lack of unity and organisation.”
Won’t get any argument from me. Go to nearly any local government meeting and there’s 4 to 6 moonbat Marxists there and no conservatives. Then the next day people get up and discover they can’t cut down a tree in their yard without getting permission from a local bureaucrat tree czar and paying for a $100 permit. It’s maddening.
Conservatives are AWOL at local meetings. It’s way past time to take back our local governments from the leftists. Controlling local government gives us a political base to operate from, and you can’t run a successful political operation without a local base.
Even our Founders realized that. Look at all the local committees they controlled.
Go to your local bookstores and ask them to restock it, if it’s not there: not one or two copies but with hundreds!
It might serve to help counter the Obammers ad nauseum display that is undoubtedly at same bookstore: rows and rows of publications featuring the Smiling Narcissist and his Smiling Narcissistic wife.
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