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Well said. However, screaming at the current Republican leadership is a waste of time. They must be replaced.

The way to take over a political party is to start at the bottom. That's how the socialists took over the Democrats.

Do you even know who your precinct committeeman is? Does he/she represent your views in the Party? If not, run against him/her. Get others sympathetic with your views to run in the other precincts. Take over your County Central Committee.

Do you even know who is your representative on your State central committee? Replace them if they don't represent your views. Take over the State central committee with like-minded people.

If that's done in enough states, you can replace the Party leadership with people who do represent your views.

Yes, this is a lot of work, and will require a lot of people getting involved. However, it's the only way to succeed.

For the record, I stood my watch: over ten years on my county central committee and two terms as county chairman. I had some influence in selection of local and state-level candidates. I could have used help from other counties. I'm now too old to walk my precinct, but I can stand on the sidelines and urge others to follow the same path.

Stop complaining and get busy.

Local numbskulls working in the precincts have no ability whatsoever to impact the GOPe. The only way to clean house in the RNC is to win the nomination and fire all the establishment boneheads. GHWB did that to conservatives after Reagan, and we have never been able to regain the ability to control the party since. Newt had some power after 94, but it was constantly undermined by Bob Dole and the GOPe.

So I disagree with your strategy. You can only take over the GOP by gaining control from the top, through a coup of sorts that results from a tsunami they can't control in the primaries. They do all they can to prevent that from happening, including bringing in Democrats to vote, loading the order of primaries, giving the moderator role at debates to MSM types instead of to conservatives, etc.

If it becomes impossible for a conservative to gain the top slot and clean house, as it may be, then that leaves only one choice for conservatives, to break with the GOP. I do not fear that as much as those such as yourself, because I think the GOP would go the way of the Dinosaur pretty quickly. I worry about the damage during the cycles where it shakes out, which is why I advocate it only if we can't gain the nomination, but if we can't, it has to be done. Unless you like progressive government and voting next to spanish speaking welfare moms.

Great post.

“The way to take over a political party is to start at the bottom”.

Yes. Problem is, conservatives quite rightly don’t want to waste their lives doing this.

So we get leftist ideologues in the D and obsequious sycophants in the R.