{"id":98,"date":"2012-02-23T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2012-02-23T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:43:51","slug":"how-can-i-do-this","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/how-can-i-do-this","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Do This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHASE I – Organize<\/p>\n

<\/strong>1.\u00a0 Get it clear in your head that you are sick and tired of both the ruling socialist parties, and that virtually all politicians operate on the principle that they only have two jobs:
\n(a) to get elected;
\n(b) to get re-elected.<\/p>\n

You are now prepared to practice “Sniper Politics” and start knocking off those politicians who have no clue about the Constitution to which they take an oath to support and defend.\u00a0 This is Phase I of “political guerilla warfare” that you are about to institute in your state, your county and your precinct.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Owing no allegiance to any party, now you are free to start your own.\u00a0 The ________________ (insert your own name) Party ought to be able to influence the votes of at least ten households, and frankly, that’s plenty, if properly managed.\u00a0 (Ten households = 25 votes, on average.)\u00a0 Have you ever wanted to vote twice?\u00a0 Well!\u00a0 Don’t be a piker!\u00a0 Vote 25 times this election!\u00a0 IF you will sign up ten households in the __________ Party, on the condition that each of them will get ten more households, you will then directly influence and cast approximately 25 + 250 = 275 votes, and if those 100 households were to get only five households more, you would influence another 500 households, or 1,250 more votes.\u00a0 275 + 1,250 = 1525.\u00a0 Politicians would kill to get that many votes.\u00a0 So… watch your backside.\u00a0 Keep a low profile, and stay armed.<\/p>\n

This type of guerilla warfare as applied to politics should be, to paraphrase Nathan Bedford Forrest, “politics to the hilt<\/em>.”\u00a0 A scorched earth policy, leaving no incumbents in office, can be a powerful weapon, where you don’t care whom you elect, as long as you knock an incumbent out of office.\u00a0 Of course, once you have a good candidate, in ANY party, you vote for him (I hope — because shoveling manure and running for office are two things Southern ladies should never have to do, but by golly, if the men won’t do it, it still has to be done).\u00a0 Using the slogan, “Spirit of ’76 – Re-elect NOBODY!<\/strong><\/em>” we must overcome our squeamishness and vote for the rattlesnake that is challenging the water moccasin.\u00a0 That is to say, if the _________ Party were to endorse a challenger in five races, all within your state, and three of those candidates win, you can claim a 60% victory, and the incumbents can wonder what happened.<\/p>\n

Some people call this “Sniper Politics”.\u00a0 It appeals to a certain mentality.\u00a0 For the same reason that snipers do not operate in large numbers, you cannot effectively manage a team of 500 people, but you CAN manage a team of ten, and they CAN repeat the process.\u00a0 That stays within the effective “span of control” that we can all accomplish.\u00a0 I submit that every high school student, properly motivated, can get ten votes for ANY candidate.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, assuming the worst case scenario, that you don’t have a politician who understands that his job is to support and defend the Constitution.\u00a0 The Oath of supporting and defending that document is meaningless to most of them.\u00a0 If you happen to have a good one, he is exempt from the “scorched earth policy” that you are about to implement.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Once you have ten team members who are willing to repeat this process, you have an obligation to them to keep them informed of who the best and worst candidates are.\u00a0 (However, “the lesser of two weevils” no longer gets our votes!\u00a0 Instead, if “the lesser of two weevils” is an incumbent, we vote for his opponent in Phase I of this war.<\/p>\n

Your team also has an obligation to you.\u00a0 (A) To inform you of the character of the individuals who are running, when they know; and (B) to Get Out The Vote at election time.\u00a0 They simply must turn out ten voters to the polls, and then push their ten to get their own ten voters to the polls.\u00a0 This is the push that overturn tyrants and places fresh crooks in office.\u00a0 (Phase I)\u00a0 We’re not naive.\u00a0 Taking a mean bull to the auction barn, and introducing another, unknown younger bull, is not likely to improve the quality of your herd.\u00a0 But when the old bull loses seniority, and the incumbent party loses a post they thought was secure, you have dealt an axe blow to the root of party politics in your district!\u00a0 Enough of those epiphanies, and one of those parties (if not both) is going to realize that only the candidates who vote in line with the Constitution are not getting knocked off after one term!\u00a0 At that point, they will begin to see the Light, and become cheerleaders for the Constitution.\u00a0 And not until then.<\/p>\n

Your first-level Team of Voters should not take more than one week to recruit, assemble, and educate.\u00a0 Ten phone calls, and if they want to be a part of your “underground political party”, they will jump at the chance to come to your house for barbecue (or lobsters, if you live in Maine), and see who else is intrigued by this concept.<\/p>\n

At your first meeting, you announce a second meeting in one week, to find out how much they have done.\u00a0 That will be more of a business meeting, dealing with numbers.\u00a0 You can easily get ten people in one week to do this, and I know, because I have done it.\u00a0 And if you can do it, then they can do it.\u00a0 “So… one week from tonight, Ladies and Gentlemen, we meet back here.\u00a0 I don’t need their names — I don’t want their names.\u00a0 But I do want you rock-solid numbers.\u00a0 And I do want your back-up, your second-in-command, in case you are out of town when we need to get some action around here.”\u00a0 After that, you meet monthly, and so does each of your organizers, with their own teams.\u00a0 (Some of your team will like to use military ranks.\u00a0 That works nicely.\u00a0 An organizer of ten households should be installed, in front of the whole group, as a Sergeant.\u00a0 When a Sergeant over a team of ten has a member who develops his own team of ten, then he may inform you, and you may promote your Sgt. to a Lieutenant, and the new organizer to Sgt.\u00a0 This hierarchy is understood immediately by all veterans.)<\/p>\n

PHASE II – Build strength<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You move to Phase II after effectively organizing a large number of voters in your county who are committed to “re-elect nobody” and to throw those rascals out.\u00a0 Up to now, you and your ten friends have been simply voting for challengers over incumbents, because that’s about all you could do.\u00a0 (The occasional Independent or third-party candidate should be the recipient of the full weight of your personal party machine.)<\/p>\n

At this point, you begin recruiting your own candidates to run as Independents who can expect 1,000 votes just for running.\u00a0 That’s because you have a machine — 1,000 voters who understand what they are doing.\u00a0 (“Un-electing sycophants and idiots.”)\u00a0 They began by freeing themselves from the ONE-party system that traditionally plays “good cop vs. bad cop” with them and scares them in to voting for the incumbent, on the argument that the challenger will be worse.\u00a0 No, he will not.\u00a0 Now they are beginning to see the impact of kicking incumbents out of office, and they start feeling their muscles.<\/p>\n

Independent Candidates may not win, but they also may win, so you want to choose men (we hope) who are competent to SERVE in this elected office of trust.\u00a0 What do they serve?\u00a0 Merely “the People”, and that by supporting and defending the Constitution.\u00a0 The Independent who gathers 1,000 votes in most county elections is going to have a distinct pleasure in watching the incumbent lose by fewer than 1,000 votes.\u00a0 That is such a good feeling.\u00a0 Yes, you will may well elect a rattlesnake, in the beginning.\u00a0 But next election, you’ll un-elect him, and hopefully either win or elect a water moccasin to take his place.\u00a0 They cannot stand this pace forever.<\/p>\n

This means that YOUR OWN CANDIDATES must sign a pledge to always vote YEA on matters that are consistent with the Constitutional powers of their office, and NAY to those which are not.\u00a0 This takes education, and one or more of these principles should be taught and ingrained at each monthly meeting.\u00a0 These powers are different if they are in the State Legislature than if they are forced into the bondage of serving in Washington, DC.\u00a0 They need to understand those powers going in.<\/p>\n

Getting their attention:<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the meantime, you invite your local state rep or independent candidate or challenger over for coffee or out to a dinner, along with your ten friends.\u00a0 Tell him just that — “I have a few friends who want to talk to you about your campaign.”\u00a0 Set it up at a local restaurant.\u00a0 Then ask your ten friends to bring their ten friends.\u00a0 This is the first surprise.<\/p>\n

At that dinner, have your MC stand up and introduce your candidate(s), and then tell them, “We did not ask you here to give us a speech.\u00a0 We’ve all heard enough speeches and lies from politicians to last us a lifetime.\u00a0 We want to speak to you.\u00a0 If you are elected, you will be required to take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.\u00a0 We are going to put you on notice that, if you cast votes that are not based upon the Constitutional authority, then we will be sitting here at the next election talking to your opponent.\u00a0 That means you need to read, and understand, what the Constitution says.\u00a0 (Give them their copy.)\u00a0 Etc.<\/p>\n

All they have to do is say, “I do,” or “I don’t.”\u00a0 And they’ll know that we’ll be watching.<\/p>\n

PHASE III – Taking the Hill<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At some point, you are going to gather enough numbers that (a) you will have a large pool from which to select your own high-quality candidates, and (b) enough votes to threaten to elect them.\u00a0 That’s when the fun begins. More on that later.<\/p>\n

“Spirit of ’76 – Re-elect NOBODY!<\/em><\/strong>“<\/span><\/div>\n
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