As I said, cleaning out the national party is a challenge several magnitudes greater than a single state party.
Even Reagan was not able to do so.
Practically speaking, it will require not just new bodies in national positions, but removing entrenched RINOcrats in places such as Massachusetts, New York, the entire West Coast...how many places in between?
It will require removing the political chameleons from office and party positions...those who have mastered the art of swaying and bending with the wind...those who talk like Reagan when a Reagan is in power, but when he's not, produce things like "Gangs du Jour" and "Chameleon-Kennedy" legislation.
This Bradley Huntington-Smythe quoted in the article, for example...how much dynamite would be required to remove him from his position? How many Bradleys across the country, how much dynamite?
What are the odds of that? I'd seriously like to hear your well reasoned answer.
My answer?
I say, getting this fighting chance is actually quite a miracle. We must embrace it.
That seeing how desperate the situation has become (the shape-shifting, the atrophying of conservative principles) should rightfully scare the hell out of us. I listen to Charles Krauthammer and I want to shake him. How can he see some things so clearly and then put his nose in the air like some elite?
But we’re dealing with POLITICIANS for the most part in the GOP. The Left is composed of die-hard ideologues and why we need a natural conservative ideologue (Palin has it from head to toe) to head the party.
The house cleaning will follow. Some districts will be harder to scrub down.
We can’t expect people crippled by the evil of dependency and socialism to come around — most are hopelessly lost to the carnage left by progressive “caring.” We change our party and then we will save their grandchildren from a life of poverty and lost potential.