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I was re-stating the 6 points made by a fellow in Germany, whose comments were posted by another FRPR.

It is odd, to be led onto a battlefield, then to be left as we now feel, without traction, given the wrong vehicles or poor instructions on how they are used / could be used, as The Big Show leaders pack up and leave.

The leftists meanwhile *live* on the battlefield and use a variety of vehicles adapted to the battlefield. (Seize and hold, until relieved; seise and hold ...)

We have wheels, but they have rails, tracked vehicles, and wheels; and whatever, they *have traction.*

You're like, "Hey man! How can we get out of this mess?" As your fast recognition of "We don't have tracks(!) and What nut dreamed up *THIS* failure(!?)" has you looking around for another experienced soldier who is also trying to seize some tracked vehicles. Adapt and improvise, we would do ... but we are not left with much to make of that.

No matter what we do, now and in the future, our officer corps *who are running these shows* --- as distinguished from those officers who have the guts to be in the trenches with us --- will, because it is their nature, remain aloof: They can still afford to pack up and join some party in the rear areas. As we try to clear our heads of the shock, and we turn to find barely a handful of captains, majors, and colonels - in total - who know what we are about and have remained on the field.

Meanwhile, that corps of the big show (I refer to them as The Republican Party Hair Club for Men), continue their business world resume-theatrics. It is considered "bad form" --- yes, still, after all these years of what liberals call "modernity" --- such highly-self-regarded mutual-admiration-society types in suits, are more worried about being seen in conversation with you, despite your excellent qualities as a seargent in the field, than being proven to be bad leaders as a result of their "poor execution."

Bad form is a career no-no for them; bad leader, they rarely are called to account, as they usually are let off the hook (TARP). Oh, you will find some of them making speeches to the troops, but there is not much *learning* from the troops and living with conditions on the shop floor, in the field, in the many spaces aboard ship, where you would think, the commanding officer would be inspecting *routinely.*

It is bad form for The Big Show Brass to spend "quality time" on the shop floor (in the trenches); and while they have the power to maintain communications, correspondence, and conversations with leaders of the shop floor (the fellows who experience has taught us, are good leaders and *very* observant - the worthy seargents), such "brass" of "corporate American" suit-cut, won't do it.

The divide between the officer corps of the big show and the rank and file, is what must be bridged, and it was for Reagan, *by Reagan,* as literally millions of then- Reagan-Democrats showed up to vote in appreciation for his understanding. It is amazing how many brass of the big show, do not get that and/or resent the success of Ronald Reagan.

When we find good leaders, we get out of the trenches; but when we are "led" by the corps of the big show, we look at each other, "Are you going?" "I dunno; are you going?" - because we have a lot of experience on the shop floor, with bad execution no thanks to bad leadership. While some few of us, the passionate, charge up and over the top anyway, because it is too painful for them to just sit there and ignore liberty.

So, we need good leaders. That requires a large, on-going presence of those of us from the trenches, from the shop floors, from our fields, to be in the chain of command and pipeline of each state Republican Party organization; in order that, our experience is a constant reminder to the brass.

When we find *within* the organization, that the brass think they can still do an end-around ... us, then we walk out; and they will know, that they will not win, then (instead of on election night), unless of course, they sell out to ... what we see them selling out to ... which has changed the effective Republican Party into becoming the Democrat Party for Lower Taxes. In which case, the Republican Party cannot be the party for liberty and limited government, as the Republican Party is but a wing-for-lower-taxes of the Democrat Party.

Next on the list, is that we need to increase the size of the conservative media, from fledgling, to full-time. There are few reporters for Human Events, National Review, The Washington Times, CNS (Cybercast News Service); they are not enough. There are some who are attracted to Brietbart, who does have some traction. Yet overall, conservative media reporters are nowhere near in number and in presence, where we need them, daily. (Free Republic is in many ways, a newsstand.)

Because we need to use conservative media to provide the body, the content of the worthy building blocks, foundations, and principles of liberty --- you know, that which the Republican politicians fail to explain well in sound bite after bite after bite...

The Republican Party Hair Club for Men continues to incorrectly believe, that *they* need to *issue* sound bites in competition for what otherwise has your attention of the established, predominantly-liberal-media-entertainment of the moment. *They* continue to incorrectly assume that you are taking decisions based upon how *they* perceive the outcome of an election. *They* continue to incorrectly assume that you choose to be ignorant and un-informed.

All the while, *they* ignore and dismiss efforts, such as at Breitbart, to help you be informed, in addition to almost-willfully ignoring how well people respond to the success of Breitbart.

To a certain extent, that failure by the brass is because *they* are THE OFFICER CORPS of The Big Show --- it's *their* BIG EGO, er show --- they DON'T want you to think, they want you to follow orders. Those sound bites? Those are *orders.*

All the while, ignoring the lessons that *you* know: when well-informed and experienced in the art of war, Rangers Lead The Way.