We have an open system. Dozens of freshmen GOP House members will be elected in NOV ‘10 (open seats and victorious challengers). If most of them turn out to be RINO’s, it is because the RINO’s did the work of getting them elected. If they are true conservatives, it will be because conservatives became active.
Most of the people who want to “take over the party” or “start a new party” have never helped anyone get elected to anything. They are all talk & no action. All talk & no action is an ineffective political strategy.
Bottom line: there are dozens of conservative candidates out there right now who are capable of winning next fall ... and most of them will fail because of a lack of support by their “activist supporters.”
Exactly my point. If you want to have your ideas mean anything, you have to act on them. If you haven’t ever done anything but complain about the state of the world around you, you’re the problem, not the solution to it. And yes, I have campaigned, manned phone banks, marched in parades with candidates, and managed GOTV drives, in case you care. But more conservatives need to take part. It’s called work for a reason, folks. It doesn’t happen by itself.