Before the 2014 midterms, the GOP needs to figure out what makes up the conservative base!

◼ If the “Conservative Base” Exists, Where is it? How to make it Politically Powerful. - Coldwarrior/RedState

The real ball game of politics is played by those who show up to play ball “inside” the party — and that means becoming voting members of the political party. Again, quite simply, ROTCs have been doing this in greater numbers than conservatives. And when it comes to electing the Party officers at the precinct level, the local district Party committee level, the county Party committee level, and the state Party committee level, in general, ROTCs have been winning these internal Party officer elections and delegate elections. Majority rules. ROTCs have been in the majority; conservatives — inside our political party, by contrast — have been in the minority. ROTCs have been in the majority where it matters in terms of control of the Republican Party; conservatives, by contrast, have been elsewhere. Ultimately resulting in the Chairmanship of the Republican Party National Committee being occupied by someone who is not quite a conservative (although there have been quite a few in the recent past who have claimed they were conservative).

The “lowest level” political unit of the political parties is the precinct. If an individual conservative wants to become a ball player in the real ball game of politics, so as to help conservatives win control of the best political tool for defeating the Democrats at the ballot box, then he has to become a voting member of the Republican Party.

Period.