Today the Conservative TAKEOVER of the GOP Starts In Your Neighborhood
By Richard A. Viguerie, Author & CHQ Chairman | 4/8/14
Conservatives
have the power and the numbers to take back their government from the
current crop of officeholders who seem hell-bent on ignoring the
strictures of the United States Constitution and foisting socialism upon
Americans, but to do so we conservatives have to do more than complain
or read a book—we have to invest a few hours a month in attending the
meetings of our local Republican Party.
As
Dan Schultz one of the winners of my $10,000 Liberty Prize pointed out,
every square inch of the United States is within a “political
neighborhood,” a precinct. When you vote, your polling place is your
precinct’s polling place.
Your
precinct has a number and, probably, a name. Dan Schultz lives in
precinct number 918, Tempe 59. His precinct has eight precinct
committeemen. He is one of them. Each of them was elected in the primary
election. To get on the ballot, each of them had to get ten signatures
from Republicans or independents in the precinct.
That’s it. Ten signatures.
Schultz
says it took him about forty minutes to get the signatures—the Party
gave him a “walking sheet” for his precinct that told him in which
houses Republicans and independents lived. In some precincts, the
precinct committeemen only had to get three signatures. Every state has a
different system. Some, like Arizona and Ohio, elect the leaders in
their precincts. Other states require meeting attendance and dues. None
of the requirements are onerous. Schultz has compiled links on his
website to some of the states’ rules relating to how to become a leader
in your precinct.
Encouraging
conservatives to run for precinct committeeman has been a longtime goal
of the First Lady of the conservative movement, Phyllis Schlafly. Her
e-pamphlet, The Most Powerful Office in The World Is NOT The President of the United States!, is a great starting point and primer on the importance of the precinct committeeman in Republican politics.
How is this a strategy for taking over the Republican Party and governing America according to conservative principles in 2017?
It
is simple. We have a two-party political system. One group of Americans
has hijacked the Democrat Party and has been able to fool enough
Americans to vote for their candidates, who usually run as “moderates.”
Another group of Americans has hijacked the Republican Party, which
claims to represent conservatives, but all too often governs from the
same Big Government progressive perspective as the so-called moderate
Democrats.
Phyllis
Schlafly calls precinct committeeman and women “the most powerful
political office in the world,” because they determine who gets the
chance to be elected to office at every level of government.
Now,
here is the open secret establishment Republicans don’t want you to
know: half of the Republican precinct committeeman slots, on average, in
2008, in every state, were vacant. (In Arizona, where Dan Schultz is
from, he says it was worse—over two-thirds of the slots were vacant;
now, they are almost up to half strength.)
And
the currently filled slots are split about fifty-fifty between
conservatives and “Republicans In Name Only” (RINOs). What if
conservatives could fill up all the vacant slots?
As Dan Schultz said: Do the math.
The
Republican Party would be transformed from a half-strength,
ideologically split party into a full-strength, 75 percent majority
conservative political juggernaut.
Why
have I never heard about this? you are probably wondering. And more
important, why have you never heard about this before from your local
Republican Party?
Dan
Schultz says that it is because virtually all Republican incumbents,
including many who profess to be conservative, are terrified that you
and other conservative Americans will figure this out and replace them,
too, because they have not fought hard enough to preserve your
liberties.
They
are terrified a more principled conservative adversary might get the
backing of a majority of precinct committeemen in their district and
state and throw out the incumbents. Like the new, conservative
grassroots Tea Partiers and 9.12-ers did in Utah in 2010, denying
incumbent senator Robert Bennett the primary nomination by keeping him
off the ballot and endorsing boat-rocking senator Mike Lee at the Utah
GOP state convention. In 2012 Indiana incumbent establishment Republican
Richard Lugar was opposed by over half the Republican county chairs in
the state, and likewise lost the primary.
What’s
more, precinct committeemen—and only precinct committeemen—get to vote
in the party elections that determine the leadership of the party.
Think
of it. The more conservatives who become precinct committeemen, the
more conservative the party, and its candidates, will become. The Party
again might appear to the voters to offer a clear choice from the
Democrat Party, rather than an echo of it.
The
#1 roadblock to conservative governance is not Barack Obama and the
liberal Left. It’s the corrupt Republican Establishment in Washington
that’s comfortable with Big Government, ObamaCare, gay marriage, and
most of Barack Obama’s plans to “fundamentally transform” America.
My new book TAKEOVER is a step-by-step Battle Plan for how rank-and-file conservatives can TAKEOVER the national GOP – so we can have a real opposition party to the Democrats.
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