With the 2010 elections fast approaching many people are jumping into various camps to back their chosen candidates and support their various pet issues. The 2010 and 2012 elections are the most important for conservatives in many years. Now’s not the time to engage in turf wars. Now is the time to come together in the common cause of removing the compromised incumbents who are on the payrolls of the big money special interests, and replace them with good men and women who share our principles and values and will represent us to Washington, not Washington to us. This is our common goal.
Because time is so short, there is no time to waste to get a third party candidate or an independent on the ballot. We must use the existing infrastructure within the Republican and Democratic Parties and run our candidates through them. History has proven time after time that when a candidate runs as a third party candidate or an independent he or she NEVER splits the liberal vote. Rather instead that candidate ALWAYS splits the conservative vote and the unintended (and yet very predictable) consequence is that it’s the one person we DIDN’T want in office–the liberal, that gets elected.
Now is the time to join with iPoliticom and Independence Caucus to help make those goals a reality.
- With the help of iPoliticom, Independence Caucus vetts candidates, a process which includes a set of 80 principle-based vetting questions, which we pose to all potential candidates for office. This is no different than having to submit to a job interview. The primary reason we have so many people in office who have not represented us well in the past is because we have not interviewed them or vetted them properly. After the candidate has gone through the vetting process, the Independence Caucus members for that voting district must agree with at least a 70% majority, that the candidate is the right person to back before that candidate may receive the Independence Caucus endorsement.
- Independence Caucus conducts specific research on incumbents to show the link to their voting records & earmarks, and which big money special interest groups have donated to their campaigns and how much they’ve donated (it’s a whole lot more than the media reports). They then use that research to give our endorsed candidates an advantage in campaigning against that incumbent particularly in and they create videos exposing the incumbents activities to the light of day as demonstrated by the Boxer Briefs or the Taylor Fits videos.
- I’m constantly stressing to both candidates and activists alike that “all politics is local” and we have a strong knowledge of how politics works down to a precinct level and how to organize and mobilize the precincts in order to win elections. iPoliticom conducts training for candidates and their volunteers on how to do this successfully. I proud to say that I helped Jason Chaffetz from Utah’s third Congressional district win his race against a six-term incumbent who outspent Jason 6:1 and we managed to beat this incumbent by 20 points! Unheard of in todays recent political history. For those who don’t know, Jason Chaffetz is the Congressman who sleeps on his cot in his Washington office to save the tax payers money.
- iPoliticom will also train a candidates volunteers on the 37 positions necessary to turn their election day into a decisive victory, even against those incumbents who are owned by the big money special interest groups.
- iPoliticom also teaches candidates and their volunteers how to use the internet tools most effectively for building a strong campaign and bringing in big money into their campaign.
Can we agree that this is the direction we all want to go? Let’s join forces instead of creating conservative group after conservative group–most of which simply replicate the function of already existing groups. As good conservative candidates promote themselves for our support, dividing into these kinds of factions becomes increasingly counter productive and diffuses our focus and effectiveness. To help accomplish all of this, here in Utah we are holding an Activist Seminar and Workshop Day with several speakers who will be sharing the personal knowledge about current issues and equally important, how to band together to win in 2010. If we are divided we WILL fail. But if we are united we will SUCCEED!
