My post yesterday seems to have hit a nerve with many. I knew it would, and expected that a lot of my fellow activists in the movement would strongly disagree. But I stand by my post and strongly support the idea of taking back the GOP.
Several friends and people who I admire in the movement have suggested that we need to force the GOP to come to us. The reality is… this will never happen. The GOP establishment has no interest in becoming a movement minded Party. It has no interest in embracing our ideas and mentality.
So if the strategy is to force the GOP to come our way… we will lose.
This is something I’ve pondered for quite some time. In my letter to the GOP earlier this year, I even laid out what I thought at the time was necessary to get me back into the party.
I sent that letter to every state chair in the country. Can you guess how many responses I got?
I’ll give you a hint… it’s less than one.
My point here is that the establishment is not going to change on its own. And we don’t have the votes to beat two establishments.
I’m not suggesting we embrace the Republican Party as it currently functions, but I am suggesting we’re going to have to stop acting as if we’ll never have anything to do with the vessel itself again. And we’re going to have to accept the fact that Democrats would love nothing more than to see our movement split the opposing vote, giving them their only chance at survival in 2010.
-Eric Odom
About eric:
Eric Odom is project manager for Blogivists.com. A web strategist by trade, Odom is currently working to develop infrastructure for activists within the liberty movement.
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Eric, I couldn’t agree more.
Strategically, I think you have the right idea. I applaud your courage and your leadership and I encourage you to continue to make the case in a way that successfully advances the cause of liberty and freedom for all Americans.
2 things we can do to encourage the GOPto listen to us and move bakc to the conservative roots.
1. Fund local conservative republicans not the RNC
2. Run for Precinct Committeeman. In Illinois you have until December 3rd to file as a write in candidate.
Eric, the GOP, like the Democratic Party, is a cash cow, providing those that sit in in its organization’s leadership positions are given power they will never give up. The only hope I have is that people like Sarah Palin, outside the fray of the party now, can reek havoc upon the party elitists, re-energizing TRUE Conservatives to get involved with Conservative candidates. This is the only way we’ll change the mainstream… couldn’t care less what party you come from; people like Newt Gingrich, Michael Steele… they have forgotten their roots and have sided with special interest groups instead. FIGHT ERIC! And I’ll be in the trenches with you!