When I was a teenager and in my 20s, I was a young republican in Florida, and there was pretty much no Republican party in the county Im from. But we were part of the Reagan Revolution and as a Reagan Youth we were commanded to build the infrastructure. No one would really vote for republicans into office because most of them were basic unknowns, and after decades of being completely out of power, there werent any with experience, name recognition or the basic skills for winning an election.
Many offices were decided by the Democratic Primary. Including the Mayor's office. There just werent any republicans running for most of the offices.
So after losing statewide races, citywide races, and well just plain any race except for Senator Paula Hawkins and President Saint Ronnie Reagan we faced up to the actual problem, and the GOP of the 1980s pushed everyone into school board races, local soil and conservation seats and small district city council offices.
Then the push came to run republican candidates for races for which there had been exactly zero interest for years, and races for which there was no possibility of the republican actually winning.
The entire point was to build long benches of people with experience and resumes so that within a few election cycles there were plenty more republicans with name recognition and most importantly experience.
I dont think anyone watching the baboons at Q are under the impression that the movement has any clearly defined organizing principle, which is a mistake in my opinion.
They have been doing the same things we did to grow party infrastructures into machines, and to obtain both a high public profile and name recognition of people who share their beliefs.
They are starting---as we did-- at the least expensive level with the most possible gains. NO ONE shows up for school board elections or small local races. They are decided by dozens of votes, always by the candidate who has the most enthusiastic core of supporters who will actually bother voting.
Like us young republicans from the 80s, Q isnt just coming for school board seats to evangelize the yoots. They are coming because they have plans for the future, and there is an organizing force behind them.
Mike Rothschild, author of "The Storm is Upon us..." How fast are these people gonna jump on this author's name? Not up front, of course. Only in the deep underbelly.
Dok, I've kept a close eye on local elections since 1972, when I started voting in them. I had just turned 18 when I voted against Nixon in the first election in which 18-year-olds were able to participate. As a younger teen, I carried petitions door-to-door to get 18-year-olds voting rights.
Dang, it was bad enough when all we had to worry about was keeping the rightwing nutbags off the Texas Board of Education so they wouldn't ruin school textbooks for the whole country.
They'll get in their like a little ol' boll weevil, though I tend to think they'll end up outing themselves, they just can't resist saying stupid shit.
Opinion polling shows that most Americans are to the Left of the Democratic Party, on issue after issue. Yet the center point of the American political class is to the Right of the Democratic Party.
This can only be true because more people on the Left don't vote than people on the Right.
The Right's demographics are so bad they have to ensure the Left majority has a harder time voting. The Right can only rely on about 30% of the electorate. The fact that that 30% can win elections proves the problem.
Hey Dok.
When I was a teenager and in my 20s, I was a young republican in Florida, and there was pretty much no Republican party in the county Im from. But we were part of the Reagan Revolution and as a Reagan Youth we were commanded to build the infrastructure. No one would really vote for republicans into office because most of them were basic unknowns, and after decades of being completely out of power, there werent any with experience, name recognition or the basic skills for winning an election.
Many offices were decided by the Democratic Primary. Including the Mayor's office. There just werent any republicans running for most of the offices.
So after losing statewide races, citywide races, and well just plain any race except for Senator Paula Hawkins and President Saint Ronnie Reagan we faced up to the actual problem, and the GOP of the 1980s pushed everyone into school board races, local soil and conservation seats and small district city council offices.
Then the push came to run republican candidates for races for which there had been exactly zero interest for years, and races for which there was no possibility of the republican actually winning.
The entire point was to build long benches of people with experience and resumes so that within a few election cycles there were plenty more republicans with name recognition and most importantly experience.
I dont think anyone watching the baboons at Q are under the impression that the movement has any clearly defined organizing principle, which is a mistake in my opinion.
They have been doing the same things we did to grow party infrastructures into machines, and to obtain both a high public profile and name recognition of people who share their beliefs.
They are starting---as we did-- at the least expensive level with the most possible gains. NO ONE shows up for school board elections or small local races. They are decided by dozens of votes, always by the candidate who has the most enthusiastic core of supporters who will actually bother voting.
Like us young republicans from the 80s, Q isnt just coming for school board seats to evangelize the yoots. They are coming because they have plans for the future, and there is an organizing force behind them.
Somehow I picture the Alien parasite bursting out of the chest
And the fires were worsened by tossing gay folks into it - hence the horrid the term f*
One of the clues I use is to count the number of '!'s
Sorry to say but it was Clinton and Obama who pulled the Dems to the right
Mmm- gibbets!! Wait, what? Giblets are different?? Mmmm...giblets! (They are good...)
Mike Rothschild, author of "The Storm is Upon us..." How fast are these people gonna jump on this author's name? Not up front, of course. Only in the deep underbelly.
Why isn't the story of Gym Jordan more widely known?
Dok, I've kept a close eye on local elections since 1972, when I started voting in them. I had just turned 18 when I voted against Nixon in the first election in which 18-year-olds were able to participate. As a younger teen, I carried petitions door-to-door to get 18-year-olds voting rights.
I think it was to some people.
You were impressively assertive at age 10. I can't imagine having refused to undergo a doctor/parent-recommended medical procedure at that age.
In the US the last of those schools closed in 2007.
Dang, it was bad enough when all we had to worry about was keeping the rightwing nutbags off the Texas Board of Education so they wouldn't ruin school textbooks for the whole country.
That's the kind of secret that tends not to get kept, especially in a small pressure-cooker environment.
They'll get in their like a little ol' boll weevil, though I tend to think they'll end up outing themselves, they just can't resist saying stupid shit.
Opinion polling shows that most Americans are to the Left of the Democratic Party, on issue after issue. Yet the center point of the American political class is to the Right of the Democratic Party.
This can only be true because more people on the Left don't vote than people on the Right.
The Right's demographics are so bad they have to ensure the Left majority has a harder time voting. The Right can only rely on about 30% of the electorate. The fact that that 30% can win elections proves the problem.