Current mood: 
annoyed, 
bitchy, 
cranky
11/25/2012 9:29 AM:
> A small group of Republicans in the south of New Mexico have the right idea. They are planning to attend the State Central Committee meeting
> and start there to change things. Good for them. It's the sort of thinking, the sort of effort we should all be doing. But most of us are not.
More than likely, they'll get the same sort of reception that Morton Blackwell and the Ron Paul Republicans got from Reince Priebus and the RNC at the GOP's National Convention in Tampa, Florida this past August:
"Shut up and go sit in the corner. When we need your support, you better be there for us."
> Why is not the State Republican Party talking to us? Why are not the county RPs sending their members messages of future plans?
Why should Monty Newman and Jay McCleskey care in the slightest what the grassroots Republicans think?
After all, the grassroots turned out for Slick Willard Romney and Heather Wilson, after Wilson and Romney were handed their nominations on silver platters by the GOP-E insiders.
Face it – the GOP-E insiders absolutely love you when you're marching to their orders, no questions asked. It's when you start insisting that the nominees adhere to certain principles that you get the door slammed in your face.
Just ask Ron Paul, Gary Johnson or Adam Kokesh how this works – either one of them can spell it out for you in detail.
Neither Romney nor Wilson were anything resembling capitalists of the limited-government, free-market orientation. Rather, they are more the sort of false "capitalists" that both Frederic Bastiat and Karl Marx excoriated. Wilson and Romney are more properly called mercantilists as Adam Smith defined the term in 1776.
But we all knew this since February and March of this year.
If you truly want to show McCleskey, Newman and Priebus that you're serious players and not just waiting for new marching orders, then you need to tell them exactly where in explicit terms where they can stick candidates like Romney and Wilson.
> Why are we not having town halls in major cities so that grassroots Republicans can mull over ideas, consider plans to become a strong,
> solid phalanx and attract more adherents?
A "solid phalanx" of star-spangled jellyfish is what you'll get under the management of McCleskey, Priebus and Newman.
At least that's what you've gotten in the past from the GOP-E gang.
How will continuing to kowtow to them as you've done in the past yield better results for you?
> Why are we not gearing up to educate the population about the virtues of capitalism?
Good question.
When did you start caring about these?
If Republicans truly cared about "the virtues of capitalism," then why did they nominate the likes of Heather Wilson and Mitt Romney for ANY sort of public office?
If you truly cared at all, then you wouldn't give Republicans cut from the mercantilist mold the slightest bit of slack, just because they have the magic "Big R" after their names.
What did I see in the 2012 election cycle? Did I see any of that sort of courage and fortitude?
No, I didn't. Instead, most of what landed into my inbox was stuff like "your wasting your vote," "Youre either with us or youre with Obama!!!" – stuff like that.
> I do not want to hear more of the same pabulum from the same elected officials that have not stood up for individual rights, limited
> governments and free markets.
What you need to do is tell the GOP-E types where they can stick the pabulum and those who push it.
As long as you continue to support them unconditionally after they give you that pabulum, they see that you're willing to settle for it. Thus that's all you'll really get from them.
> Instead, I'd like to hear Marco Rubio speak and Thomas Sowells, Yaron Brook and Dan Watkins. I'd like to hear John A. Allison talk to us
> about his new book, The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure.
Start raising money – the sooner the better, as all of these potential speakers are likely to charge a pretty penny to show up here in New Mexico.
And make sure to keep the GOPNM State Committee OUT of the loop where bringing speakers in is concerned – or all you will get is more of the same.
For what it's worth, I will observe with amusement the efforts of the "Ron Paul" and Tea Party crowds to "take over" the Republican Party. I suspect that future efforts in this vein will yield similar results to previous efforts along that line.
Rather, I predict it will be the C4L and Tea Party groups who end up getting taken over and co-opted by the GOP-E types, and thus subsumed into being obedient, servile troopies for them. In short, pawns.
So if you LIKE riding in circles on a bus for a few hours, if you LIKE the MC confirming the votes for the GOP-E candidates while ignoring the votes for your candidates, if you LIKE being told what to say and what to think – then please continue on as before.
Anyway, Republicans – PROVE ME WRONG (No one's done it yet.)
Hey, no one ever said that living as free people was easy – if it was, then everybody would do it. Sticking to your principles and standing up for what's right can be costly, in many ways. Sometimes you might have to lose an election rather than put a mercantilist with the magic Big R after his name into public office.
Final notes: Gary Johnson is JUST GETTING STARTED. He plans to do a 2013 college speaking tour, just like he did in the 2012 election. And at his Election Night Party at the Hotel Albuquerque, I asked him to form at least an exploratory committee for the 2014 New Mexico gubernatorial race.
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Mike Blessing
Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who should – you or someone else?
Freedom is the answer – what's the question?
"If you wanna live long on your own terms
You gotta be willing to crash and burn"
– Motley Crue, "Primal Scream"
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