March 11, 2009 5:21 PM
Loudoun County Republican Committee meeting - registration due 3/14
For those of us watching from the sidelines as O&Co continue to sink our ship - there may be a tendency to feel helpless and hopeless.
Many have asked what we can do. My answer is to get involved. As I pointed out in Reaching the Left from the Right, many Christians spend way too much time in the safety of their church family, enjoying the rosy glow of potluck suppers, choir practice, Bible studies, youth group, fellowship, and so on and so on.
Not that those are not good things. But desperate times call for desperate measures. In case y'all haven't noticed, there is a war going on for our nation's future. And the other side brings a religious passion with them and a greater time commitment.
there is also a battle for the Republican party - as there has always been - between the Country Club Republicans, or RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) who want so desperately to be accepted by the liberals, and the conservatives.
The RINOS are always adamant that conservative candidates cannot win. That is not true, It is the wishy-washy people like McCain - their kind of candidate - who lose elections.
How did McCain become our candidate? Because many states have open primaries and Democrats voted in Republican primaries for the candidate of their choice, not ours. We need to return to the closed primary where registered Republicans vote for Republican candidates and Dems vote for Dems.
What else can we do? We can become involved. We can run for office and help conservatives who are willing to run for office.
You can also get involved in the Republican Party. Believe me, I feel no loyalty to the Republican Party. It is full of wimps and wannabes and hypocrites and disloyal people like McCain. But since we live in a flawed nation where money directs the success of campaigns I just don't foresee a day when a third party will become a force to be reckoned with.
So what we can do is overcome any reluctance - we have, get involved in the decision-making process of the party and get our older children and friends involved too.
I'm encouraging you to find out what is going on at the grassroots level where you live.
Also announcing that the Loudoun County Republican Committee will be meeting March 31 and the Republican State Convention will be May 29&30.
Registration for these event must be received (not postmarked, but received) in Ashburn by 6PM Saturday, March 14. You can find the registration form and details here.
For anyone who does venture forth into new territory, please write and let us know what you find.
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"How did McCain become our candidate? Because many states have open primaries and Democrats voted in Republican primaries for the candidate of their choice, not ours. We need to return to the closed primary where registered Republicans vote for Republican candidates and Dems vote for Dems."
Republicans voted in Democratic primaries as well. Don't give them more credit than they deserve--they certainly weren't the only ones with this idea. John McCain won 31 states and 6 territories, so the assertion that his win was caused solely by "ninja voting," as we here in Kansas like to call it, is pretty outrageous. I'm absolutely sure that some of this went on, but I don't think there was a vast Left conspiracy to do it. It's just as likely that there was a vast Right one. As you have pointed out before, statistically, Republicans have a greater understanding of the political process than Democrats do and thus it would be likely that they would figure this out in greater numbers than, and before, the Dems. I have no numbers on how many people did this, because the stats don't exist and even if they did I don't think it would be significant. My guess is that this happened on both sides, and since there is no way of knowing how much of it did happen, we must let it go.
Even in closed primaries, people can switch their party allegiances quite easily in order to pick "their" candidate. This happened a lot in Kansas. We have closed caucuses, but pretty much anyone who wanted to could have walked into either party's. Some of my friends, Democrat and Republican, admitted to doing this and actually found it quite funny.
Anyway, kudos for being so politically active and for encouraging others to do so as well. It will be interesting to see where the Republican party goes in the next few years.
Posted by: Christy | March 11, 2009 8:15 PM
"It is full of wimps and wannabes and hypocrites and disloyal people like McCain."
Ha ha.
Barbara, is there a party out there that is free of these encumbrances?`
I think if you consulted a citizen of a county with a multi party system they would be complaining about these types of characters x 3 or 4 or 5. (such as in Canada)
I think positions of power attract wimps, wannabees, hypocrites etc. It is rare to get a real leader anymore.
Posted by: kelly | March 11, 2009 8:33 PM
I'm a registered independent, mostly because I don't feel the Republicans represent me, I hated NCLB (and I voted for Bush! In Texas!), thought McCain was a bad choice, etc. etc. etc.
I'm following the Tea Party events with great interest, and we're planning to go to the Tax Day Tea Party.
Do you think events like that do anything?
Posted by: Milehimama | March 11, 2009 9:47 PM
