Individualism? LOL, thanks for the attempted psychoanalysis.
Being in power means you can go through the establishment so there is no point in building grassroots organizations to get around the establishment. Being out of power means you no longer have that access, and since your grassroots infrastructure has decayed you have to build it back up. This will be more and more important the longer you stay out of power. Right now it’s slightly important because you can win and all the major players will be right back in business. But that’s playing with fire, because a loss in 2010 and 2012 will deplete republican leadership as we know it on the national level. And we’d be having this conversation all over again in much more gloomy fashion
I mean, you can make up all the stuff you want to explain why modern conservatives don’t have the stomach to reach for power again. But that’s just burying your head in the sand. They don’t have the stomach for it because they haven’t yet been beaten enough to say enough’s enough. Everyone’s thinking they’ll just run Gingrich and we’ll party like it’s 1994. So there is no real urge to do anything beyond express grievance.
And the funny thing is that the techniques are staring you guys right in the face.
Ron Paul harnessed tremendous grassroots support and his ideology is certainly a million times more individualistic then anyone in the GOP has been since Goldwater. So don’t give me lame justifications as to why conservatives don’t have a grassroots movement. You rejected the guy that did.
I mean please. You make it sound like liberals always have the type of field organization Obama put together. Like it’s something that happens every year. It doesn’t. And it took work. I mean the funny thing is that a big part of Obama’s strategy was predicated on ideas from Karl Rove (Strict top-down message control, boosting base turnout) Clinton’s campaign (the war room) and new things (social networking). The tools are there. The more people that realize this and stop trying to make echo chamber “lulz, liberalz r teh groupthink” articles, the sooner things can get done.
