In recent months I have been making a concerted effort to become involved in local republican politics, and one of the first things I noticed was the total inactivity on my town committee. I have attended 4 monthly meetings, every month since I started, and they've averaged about 14-16 people in total. I don't know about you guys, but we have that at my campaign for liberty meet up easily. In my town well over half of the committee positions are vacant, so it's just a matter of getting signatures and you're automatically a committeeman. But enough of the particulars, I want to tell you about what I have actually experienced with these folks.
My GOP gets dominated by the democrats every year and is so happy for anyone who is interested in joining. As you can see by the meeting numbers we are not very active, because losing makes people apathetic, but our goal in taking over committees is not (at least right away) to elect republicans. Our goal is to take over county GOP's so we can then take over state GOP's so we can nominate liberty candidates who abide by the constitutional conservative message. So people in deep blue counties should be trying the hardest to take over their GOP's, because they are the easiest ones to overtake and they still have an equal vote and a voice on the state committees. If we made a concentrated effort to take over the republican committees of the 5 bluest counties of each state, we would get a lot of "bang" for our buck as your county GOP has the same vote at the state committee as every other county GOP. My point is that those of us in deep blue territory shouldn't view it as hopeless because democrats always win, you should view it as a chance to take out the establishment at their weakest links.
My GOP gets dominated by the democrats every year and is so happy for anyone who is interested in joining. As you can see by the meeting numbers we are not very active, because losing makes people apathetic, but our goal in taking over committees is not (at least right away) to elect republicans. Our goal is to take over county GOP's so we can then take over state GOP's so we can nominate liberty candidates who abide by the constitutional conservative message. So people in deep blue counties should be trying the hardest to take over their GOP's, because they are the easiest ones to overtake and they still have an equal vote and a voice on the state committees. If we made a concentrated effort to take over the republican committees of the 5 bluest counties of each state, we would get a lot of "bang" for our buck as your county GOP has the same vote at the state committee as every other county GOP. My point is that those of us in deep blue territory shouldn't view it as hopeless because democrats always win, you should view it as a chance to take out the establishment at their weakest links.
