Onward And Upward
By Mitch Berg
Gary Gross at LFR – fresh off his I-don’t-know-how-many-th Instalanche – covers the Parnell/Young race in Alaska, pitting a conservative against a RINO.
Gary’s leded: things are looking encouraging for Parnell, the conservative.
Farther down:
A new generation of politicians are climbing the ladder. Sarah Palin and Sean Parnell are prominent members of that new generation. Other members of this generation’s new leaders include Mike Pence, Jeb Hensarling, Eric Cantor and Michele Bachmann in the House, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint and John Thune in the Senate, Gov. Palin in Alaska, Gov. Jindal in Louisiana and Gov. Pawlenty here in Minnesota.
It’s time for the GOP to start cleaning out the deadwood that’s accumulated in Washington, especially in the House. It’s time we started re-establishing the GOP brand. It’s long past time to start giving people reasons to trust us again.
Cleaning out the RINO deadwood in Washington and Saint Paul is vital, of course.
Even more important in the long term: getting more conservatives into offices at the bottom of the order; school boards, district councils, water boards and the like.
We’ve had some success: we’ve had Republicans elected to three community councils in Saint Paul, now (although two of them might not know it just yet). Expect more in the next round. Getting conservatives into the offices that might not get in the news, but do face people fairly regularly on pocketbook and community issues is a bet on the future; it shows people that the left’s cynical lies about conservatism and Republicans are just that; lies.
When the dust settles from the Presidential election, that’s going to have to be a big priority for conservatives.
