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We may yet have an ally with Freedom Works when it comes to reversing the GOP's bad rules that were passed.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened
<<They want a real voice in the Grand Old Party. They've played by the rules. But the power brokers have now changed the rules, in order to shut them out. This unexpected hostility forces grassroots conservatives to reconsider their future within the GOP. >> ...
<<We expect Democrats to be top-down and high-handed -- centralization of power is their governing principle, after all. But coming from Republicans, high-handedness is deeply disappointing. Republican rhetoric has always emphasized decentralization and local control -- making policy from the bottom up. And until yesterday, the GOP was in fact a mostly bottom-up party. No longer.>>
<<What should our next steps be?
1) Between now and November 6th, our main focus should be the elections. We must fire Barack Obama and elect a new wave of true fiscal and constitutional conservatives to the U.S. Senate to reinforce allies like Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee.
2) But starting today, we must also work to ensure the RNC doesn't actually use its new power to change the rules on the fly.
3) In four years, we must amend the rules at the national convention to decentralize power and restore the status quo ante.
Let's take the Republican party out of the hands of insiders and centralizers, and make it a bottom-up party again. That means doing the hard work of getting elected to local and state committees, adopting resolutions, buttonholing RNC members, etc.
All that said, let's face it. This is a slap in the face to the countless Americans who are trying to effect change from the bottom up. We must decide whether and to what extent we want to remain engaged in a Republican Party whose establishment clearly does not want our input. My own personal opinion is we should exhaust all our options to reverse the power grab before we even think of "walking out."
The RNC power grab has succeeded, for now. We’ll be back.>>
Instead of giving up the GOP during the delegates season--let's use their own phrase. We ARE at the tipping point.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened
<<They want a real voice in the Grand Old Party. They've played by the rules. But the power brokers have now changed the rules, in order to shut them out. This unexpected hostility forces grassroots conservatives to reconsider their future within the GOP. >> ...
<<We expect Democrats to be top-down and high-handed -- centralization of power is their governing principle, after all. But coming from Republicans, high-handedness is deeply disappointing. Republican rhetoric has always emphasized decentralization and local control -- making policy from the bottom up. And until yesterday, the GOP was in fact a mostly bottom-up party. No longer.>>
<<What should our next steps be?
1) Between now and November 6th, our main focus should be the elections. We must fire Barack Obama and elect a new wave of true fiscal and constitutional conservatives to the U.S. Senate to reinforce allies like Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee.
2) But starting today, we must also work to ensure the RNC doesn't actually use its new power to change the rules on the fly.
3) In four years, we must amend the rules at the national convention to decentralize power and restore the status quo ante.
Let's take the Republican party out of the hands of insiders and centralizers, and make it a bottom-up party again. That means doing the hard work of getting elected to local and state committees, adopting resolutions, buttonholing RNC members, etc.
All that said, let's face it. This is a slap in the face to the countless Americans who are trying to effect change from the bottom up. We must decide whether and to what extent we want to remain engaged in a Republican Party whose establishment clearly does not want our input. My own personal opinion is we should exhaust all our options to reverse the power grab before we even think of "walking out."
The RNC power grab has succeeded, for now. We’ll be back.>>
Instead of giving up the GOP during the delegates season--let's use their own phrase. We ARE at the tipping point.
