How Conservatives should change the Republican Party

1st- Only closed (registered republicans only) primaries are allowed to be held more than 30 days before the start of the Republican convention.

Consequences to the state republican party for violating this rule.
1) The national party will not be allowed to spend any money for supporting of any republican candidate at any level during the election year which the rule is broken.
2) The violating state delegation will be allowed to attend the convention but will not have the right to vote on the party platform or any nominating process for any candidate or party official.

The reasoning behind this is that in 2008 non-republicans decided the republican party nominee. New Hampshire and Florida dramatically narrowed the field of republican candidates and republicans were a minority or slight majority of the people to vote in each of those two republican primaries.

It should not come as a shock when the democrat party is allowed to pick both major party candidates for president that when the election takes place the democrat wins.

2nd- A 2nd Contract with America, items to include

• Term limits will be created for congress, both house and senate. These limits will be not have a grandfathering. 12 years maximum total in congress (3 terms in the house and 1 in the senate or 2 in the senate terms, 6 terms in the house). If you are beyond these years now, you can’t run for re-election.
• Removal of all post government service benefits for elected officials. No lifetime heath insurance, no lifetime pensions. The member of congress was voted out of office because your bosses (the voter) fired you. Why should you continue to collect paychecks and benefits after you are fired? Talk about golden parachutes, a CEO does not have a parachute as good as members on congress.
• Federal budget (spending) will be required to decline by 1% of GDP per year until the budget is 15% of GDP. All spending must be on budget, no off budget spending. Taxes shall be limited to 1% of GDP greater than the budget until the federal debt is $0. The budget is then required to be balanced on an annual basis.
• A constitutional amendment which removes the ability to collect income taxes will be sent to the states for ratification in the 1st congress which the republican party has a majority in the house and senate.
• A 2nd amendment which implements a consumption based tax system which is capped at 22%. The federal government will not be allowed to collect taxes in any way other than the consumption tax. There is one standard deduction for all American citizens which is 3 times the current poverty level. Citizens can apply on a quarterly or yearly basis for the refund of the taxes. Non-citizens (legal visitors to America) can apply for 50% of the consumption tax that is collect to be refunded with 30 days of exiting the country.

3rd – There is lots of discussion going on now about how the Republican party needs to be re-branded, marketed different, become more centrist. These are knee jerk reactions because the real cure will remove the current leaders of the republican part who are currently in power.

The conservatives in the republican party need to take back the party by discussing the ideals of the conservatism. If the current center-left leaders of the republican party do not see that the reason the party has lost in 2006 and 2008 is that the conservative principles have been abandoned then the conservatives need to leave the republican party.

Join and vote for the libertarian party, the conservative party or the constitution party they all have positives and negatives in their party platform. Conservatives need to take a long term view about the future of America and stop voting for the “lesser of two evils”.

Change the tone, do not discuss a issue on a false or incorrect premise, change the premise. Make people think.

Take a stand, conservative principals of a small, limited federal government and strong states rights is the basis of the Constitution and America.

It worked in the 80’s under Reagan, the 90’s behind Newt and can again in the 20teens behind any one of the smart young energetic conservative governors. (Pawlenty, Jindel, Palin) Take back our state and local governements over the next 4 years and then vote a true fiscal conservative as the Republican nominee in 2012.