AND in the opposite corner, in red, white and blue trunks, we have Rush, Sean, Mark, and radio talk generally, people who work with their hands for a living, most churches, fraternal organizations, pro-lifers, the normally married, gun folks, veterans, military personnel and the rest of the dispossessed American majority.
The internet is neutral but we love it because we have uncontrolled access to which we are not accustomed. Liberals have it too but they take access for granted. Of course, liberalism is a mental illness (thank you Michael Savage!) and liberals don't get as much bang for their buck.
You strike me as either an awful pessimist or as a cheerleader for RINO government. It is not sensible to expect success by electing a patriot here and a sensible candidate there while Wall Street $$$$$ takes its toll in primaries nominating windtunnel fools and actual publicly identified Demonrats have occasional successful election cycles (usually due to the RINOs getting caught with their covetous greedy $$$$$ obsessed paws in the cookie jar as usual).
You apparently missed the fact that there is an enraged public and that part of what enrages them is "Republican" leaders who offer NOTHING as an alternative to Obamunism. The faux "Republicans" think that they are avoiding controversy by supporting what Obozo supports only a smidgeon less of it. The spineless "Republicans" don't care about mountains of dead babies, about the destruction of marriage, about gun confiscation, about nosy government intrusions on our telephone calls and internet communications, IRS harassment of ordinary citizens suspected of not worshipping Obozo reflexively, eyc., etc., etc.
Instead of spending God knows how many more decades mud wrestling against Wall Street's zillions of $$$$ for control of the GOP and wasting our time, what might we do instead?
Home school children wherever possible. Someone has to lead the next generation and it may as well be our kids. Can't homeschool them? Send them to parent-controlled academies with sound curricula. Resist government skewel spending. We do not need to fund football, basketball, marching bands, junior years in Europe (some CT schools do that one at taxpayer expense), expensive social events and expensive extracurricular programs out the wazoo. We DO need educational attainment and excellence in Mathematics, Sciences, Literature, Grammar, Modern Languages, Latin and Greek, History, Great Books, Classical Literature, Shakespeare, O. Henry and Saki, Vergil and Xenophon and Cicero and Homer, Theology (whatever flavor you prefer) and Morality. This was done in Jesuit prep schools in the recent past (fifty years ago) and it is do-able now. The graduates will OWN their government schooled academic contemporaries. REMOVE each and every child from government schooling (other than the one where verga teaches in rural Virginia). Arrange substitute activities to make up for loss of extracurriculars. Have the kids compete with all kids in Academic Bowl type competitions and dominate.
Young or old or anywhere in between, educate yourself by reading a conservative canon of books. Examples: Economics: von Hayek, von Mises, Friedman, Adam Smith. American History: James I. Robertson, Paul Johnson, David McCullough, Steven Ambrose, Ladislas Farago. Math: Saxon Math, all of it. Religion (I am a Catholic): All of the Old Testament and New Testament, Pascendi Domenici Gregis and Lamentabile Sane (both by Pope St. Pius X), Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII, Malachi Martin, Blessed Fulton Sheen, Saint John Paul II, St. Augustine, St. John of the Cross, Francis Schaeffer (not Catholic but very Christian), Hillaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis (not Catholic but very Christian) and Rabbi Menachem Schneerson (the late Rebbe of the very sizeable Lubavitcher group of Chassidic Orthodox Jews).
Add other works of similar weight and interest in other subjects. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Gulag Archipelago, Cancer Ward and just about anything else, Paul Johnson, just about anything, Robert Remini on Andrew Jackson, Samuel Eliot Morrison on the Age of Discovery, American History generally, on John Paul Jones, on the US Navy in WWII, etc.
Teach the young to write persuasively, argue cogently, handle Robert's Rules for public and organizational meetings, recruit others, organize movement activity and to punish their enemies.
Learn and teach reliable sources of news and history and morality. Encourage young people to consider careers as clerics, teachers, officeholders, newspaper writers, editorialists, TV and radio reporters, attorneys, political staff, educrats, writers of popular entertainment and novels, and other relevant professions.
Teach everyone of us the habit of refusing to compromise or to put on a happy face for its own sake, train in the use of firearms and reloading and the use of wilderness resources.
Bravo Mr. Elk, I believe you have stumbled onto the beginnings of the correct solution.
We also need to work together in making inroads into the Internet, the media, the educational system, local governments. We need to target our resources to support those who support us. We need to make efforts to revive conservative morals and principles through websites such as FR, and where ever we can get the word out.