If They Don't Want Us... Its Time For Operation Chaos 2.0

It looks like Frank Wagner's despicable slating tactic to nullify any and all participation in the state and local politics by actual conservatives is spreading.  I am hearing this could happen in the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th districts as well.  So instead of trying to work together and broaden the party, the Establishment all over Virginia has made it pretty clear that they only want either paid lackeys or bootlickers running the local committees.  So if they continue to do this, there isn't much we can do.

Or is there.

What I propose is if the Establishment here in Virginia continues to use this tactic in order to disenfranchise any person who doesn't toe the line, we vote Democrat this year.  Just this once.  Consider this Operation Chaos 2.0. If they don't want us, lets see how they will feel if vote against them?  This a free country and in my opinion, it is the duty of the party to serve its members, not the reverse.  Unfortunately, when you get into power and surround yourself with paid yes-men, you lose sight of that.  

Is this a radical step?  Yes.  Will this idea catch on?  I hope so.  Primaries are pointless if the system is gamed.  The reason why people like Frank Wagner and his ilk hate conventions is because it is a system that he cannot game, cannot control, cannot dictate the outcome just because he's a state senator.  For all the bullshit they spew about growing the party through primaries, let's seem them eat those words when they have effectively thrown out the activist base that does all the hard work and actually believes in what fake conservatives like Wagner et al say they believe in. 

They think we are patsies.  They think we can be bullied and put down and beaten into line.  But parties are overrated, they are simply vehicles for getting elected to enact your principles.  What is in your heart is more important then the letter after your name on the ballot.  If they want to play dirty, let's play dirtier.  

Let's see 2nd District Chairman Wagner explain why Scott Rigell lost reelection.  Now THAT would be fun to watch ...

Comments

[gary]

where in the 5th?

[Brian W. Schoeneman]

Don't be stupid, Chris. Come on.

[Max Shapiro]

You are delusional. Frank Wagner and his ilk can control conventions/mass meetings/primaries, whatever they want. It's called money. Frank had no problem controlling the Mass Meeting by turning out 2x the number of people the Tea Party did. Quit your whining and go win and election.

I disagree with what Frank did, but it was known weeks ahead of time that he was going to slate. Had Colgate's campaign been competent, they would have turned out enough people to stop it. They overfiled Frank by a 2:1 margin in delegates, so there is simply no excuse for not having that same margin at the mass meeting when they knew Frank was going to try and slate them all.

[Stephen Spiker]

So let me get this straight: Wagner gamed a mass meeting, and it's proof that we should abandon primaries?

I don't get it.

[Chris]

The problem is for these important internal leadership positions you cannot have a primary. For state central and congressional district leadership ... we have to trust that these mass meetings and conventions are handled fairly so everyone can be represented. This isn't even really a controversy over our elected candidates, its about trusting that the party infrastructure is decided fairly. This was not.

[Stephen Spiker]

I agree it wasn't. I just don't understand why the actions of one self-serving asshole makes a larger point about Establishment vs Activists, or Conservatives vs Moderates, or Primaries vs Conventions, etc.