This post is written in anger and frustration.
Angry that we continue to follow the Republican Party’s elite ignorance. A party that continues to pull defeat from the jaws of victory characterized by pompous fools who fulfill the sterotype built by the left.
Frustrated that the reality of politics is this: There will be no third party capable of competing with the coalition constructed by the dems. As a result, true conservatives MUST take steps to irradicate the ignorance of the Republican Party while still adhering to the core values of our forefathers (beliefs that I discovered are considered extreme by over half of my countrymen last night, BTW).
I have no solve for exactly how to accomplish this. Only advice based on a long military career in several foreign lands for how to defeat the dems once this is accomplished.
This thought process is based on the concept of irregular warfare with twists thrown in here and there for good measure.
With that, I provide the following advice for the good of the order.
LEADERSHIP: The old crew has proven either incompotent or outdated. McConnell and Boerner must go. They represent a failed plan to defend and resist without clearly explaining their position. They are content with looking like the bad guys and face public scorn when they don’t realize how important it is to manipulate a clearly left leaning MSM. They represent the failure of the last four years to our own and obstructionists to the opposition. We’ve got to show a new face to the nation. That is the genesis of rebuilding this movement. Ryan or Cantor in the House, Rubio or Demint in the Senate.
They represent a change in a party that has been beaten soundly in the last two elections by a charlatan and his traveling circus. A fresh choice in leadership represents change you can TRULY beleive in from every angle.
GROUND GAME: It is IMPERATIVE to develop and foster an intricate ground game. It requires a MICRO-ANALYSIS of every county, every city, and every early and absentee ballot by demographic to find how how, why, and with what method they voted. Give it to the dems on their “community organizing” machine. We don’t need to reinvent that model. we MUST develop our own.
It will require an insurgent effort at the ground level. An infiltration into dem areas that we identify are weak or vulnerable to start cutting in to the blue.
This isn’t as difficult as it sounds. It requires a patient and immediate effort that starts with the post election analysis.
The COIN (insurgeny/counterinsurgency)effort would include the identification of these areas, the inflitration of the areas through churches and charitable organizations AND PARTICULARLY THROUGH EDUCATION.
I’m not talking about traditional public schools and universities. I’m talking about the new way to educate - the online universities, the trade schools and nightschools. Corporate allies need to invest and educate with the ideals of economic and fiscal conservatism.
The RNC needs to lead and develop this effort. A novice like me can see that there is a disconnect between the voting habits of catholic-dominated hispanics and baptist blacks and their actual stated values. That disconnect can be exploited if it is done slowly, deliberately, and effectively.
INFORMATION WARFARE: We are ATROCIOUS AT THIS. Dems get a simple message out early and often. They poison the well and we are left to change minds rather than get the initial impression right from jump. We constantly play defense and think we are sooooo clever when dems (as they ALWAYS do) do something stupid or illegal.
We ABSOLUTELY MUST be proactive. We must attack at EVERY OPPORTUNITY then add each fail of the dems to a trend and theme. These themes must be simple, tailored, and repetitively broadcast to each target demographic.
We must look out beyond the 5 and 10 meter targets. We’ve got to effectively interpret what the dem message is on the horizon and confront it at all levels - from the national MSM level filtering directly down to the target group level. Even I can see what the talking points of the upcoming week are by watching the Sunday talking head programs. Defense is unacceptable. Attack, attack, attack.
This is only one part of an overall information operation plan that is constant in a simple party message and what it means to each target group.
WE DON’T DO THAT WELL. WHY NOT?
I find it unbelievable that Obama has hijacked the reputation and imagery of the Party of Lincoln. COIN operations involve a very in depth understanding of cultural idocyncracies and how best to exploit them to our advantage. It’s not a “wool-over-the-eyes” approach or a “free shit” approach like the dems sell. THAT ALWAYS COMES UP SHORT.
It’s a sell based on how it effects each target group and what it means to them. If it’s done right, I am CONFIDENT that the tenets of conservatism sell themselves.
In Civil Miltary Operations, assistance in areas that seem unrelated builds trust in the agency. Granted, there’s a fine line between assistance and the giving of free shit but, the special operations forces walk that line well. It can be done. Community outreach in areas that we identify, in ways that we haven’t before can build a larger tent without sacrificing our beliefs.
The military has been doing this in third world countries for years. We’ve been more successful in some areas, less successful in others. In the United States third world strongholds of the Democratic Party,I am confident that it can be done.
This is, by far, not the only avenue we’ve got to pursue in order to turn the tide.
But, if we are going to war, the RNC must look to the military to rediscover and reorganize. The number-crunching beancounters have their place in the organization but, on their best days, they can only identify who will and won’t vote Republican.
This is a “Hearts and Minds” effort.
It requires a new way to think about the political battlefield.
Rangers Lead the Way.
Good post...some food for thought tho..
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
the core of our challenge is to clean up the precincts.
We are continuing to give permission for our own dienfranchisement by not doing so.
Well there are a couple of things at work here:
Gallup and Rasmussen failed to poll a major dim voter group - dead people and they failed to predict how many GOP votes would be erased. changed or removed.
How the Democrats get out the vote? Control the voting machines. If your guys are in charge of voting machines you can make your turn out any number you need!!!! Stop the early voting, Stop provisional ballots, and by all means if the counting machine can’t read the ballot it is garbage!!! No people looking at ballots trying to determine how the voter wanted to vote... Also verify the status of the voter before he votes!!!
Very good analysis. Very good plan.
Re: *unrelated areas*:
There are no unrelated areas. I have been trying to tell conservatives, including GOP party operatives for years that one way the Dems beat us is that they co-opt every group out there from Lamaze to FFA. There are undeclared political operatives as real members of every group in every community. They make friends, become trusted,ferret out which leftist agendas are going to appeal to each group (GW, animal rights, environmental controls, tax the rich, free child care, medical care, et al)and then work to make sure the members know the position of whichever Democrat candidate from the lowest to the POTUS on that issue. They stand up at every meeting and announce fundraisers and GOTV actions people are encouraged to participate in. They use these memberships to form other ad hoc groups to support other agenda items. They rail on any position advocated by the right, and if they see anyone beginning to think for themselves, they sic a *mentor* on them, pronto, to make sure any information the potential dissenter has come across is demeaned as *conservative rhetoric*.
They also compile the various illegalities committed by anyone in the group. This is used as a last resort or as leverage in the event of a defection.
This is 24/7/365 and it is in addition to their jobs, their families and their recreation. These operatives do work. Many have professional degrees. Many own their own businesses and they can also then use employment as a recruiting tool.
They will run for any office available, at any time. The attitude is that no position is too small to not be of use.
It is a myth that all Democrats are spongers. Many, many are comfortable to wealthy or middle class. They BELIEVE in their cause. They walk their talk. And they make sure they are out there among the folks who are struggling in order to support them and earn their trust.
No doubt, some of them went to Ranger School, as well.
We need to return to a policy in ALL states of ONE LEGAL VOTER, ONE VOTE. end early voting, e-mail voting, registrating when you vote, multiple absentee ballots sent to one address and used at other addresses, require photo voter ID and not a library card that asks for no proof of who you are or where you live and they then put your picture on it and you can use it for ID to vote. No electronic tabulating or recording of ballots that are not marked by the voter and retained by the voting machine, if the ballots are discovered in the trunk of someone’s car they will not be counted. Counties and states should be responsible for counting and tabulating the vote in their state with full access by all concerned parties and hard copies kept of everything. We should keep a close watch on the absentee voting as well and absolutly gurantee that military ballots are sent out in a timely fashion and are correct and can br received back in time to be counted. The way things are going the results of turnout and the vote total will be announced and they may never even be any relation to what happend and the results announced. If we can’t insure an honest election nothing else we do will matter.
I have no faith in our national federal election results. The NYU Brennan Justice Center is against Voter ID or anything else we do to insure honest elections, their main mantra is disenfranchisement, I’m disenfranchised when my vote only counts .95%. The last line of one of their papers makes my point “VOTER ID only makes a difference in the close elections anyway”. We just had a close election and the deciding votes in the swing states were very close, not to mention many House and Senate seats. The democrats cheat and there ground game is to cheat and because they cheat the believe they are entitled to the close elections.
Wow! You’re right on the money! I hope you don’t mind but I want to send this around. You have the light at the end of the tunnel!
I want to relate a story of a Republican candidate that won election in a Democratic stronghold that had not voted Republican in 70 years or so. He got 70% of the vote.
These people are pro-choice, pro family, pro fiscal responsibility, but they were raised Democrat. They were also raised pro-union, and lots of the people belong to a union of some sort. They are also from Rural areas and are proud of their schools.
He told them he would be THEIR representative, and represent them the way they wanted. He would not vote to change the state to a right to work state and he would not vote for anything that would hurt their local school or take away their local control. For everything else he would vote conservative/common sense.
Every Republican desiring to be elected needs to get out there and know their district. Shoe leather and real discussion face to face works. Sloganeering and distant campaigns not so much.