Call to Convention

Fellow Conservatives Precinct Delegates,

Congratulations! The success of the Tea Party movement is keeping the serious issues we face in restoring our state and Republic, the public spot light combined with activism has resulted in an historic election. However, this is the beginning of a solid foundation in which to built upon to ensure the future of our state and country.

Like it or not, we have a two party system, despite the talk of a 3rd party. Third parties historically have either disappeared or simply cannot win. And to TAKE BACK MICHIGAN we must win and continue to win. Part of that process is for Constitutional Conservatives to become involved in their County party and run from Executive Committee members and County Chairs.

As of now you should have received the official call to the Ingham County Convention on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 7:00pm Hannah Community Center 819 Abbott Rd East Lansing. As you know the purpose will be to select 27 members to he executive committee.

In order to see Constitutional Conservatives in all areas of our local County Party we must begin to build critical infrastructure for a Constitutional Conservative coalition and voting block

The next Convention is not only an opportunity to run for Executive Committee but also to mingle and discovery other Tea Party/ Constitutional Conservative delegates to begin the process of forming a coalition within the County Party

I urge you to send in your desire to be considered to serve on the Executive Committee. You may do so by contacting the Ingham County Chair Linda Tarver at hallelujahllw@aol.com NO LATER THAN 5:00pm on Monday, November 29

TO HELP AT THE CONVENTION:Robert's Rules of Order Motions Chart Robert's Rules of Order Motions Chart
to print and take to the Convention and for future Ingham County GOP meetings.

Additionally and to vacillate identifying fellow Constitutional Conservatives, Grassroots in Michigan is co-hosting the Ingham County Republican Christmas party on December 17^th Details to follow

See you at the Convention!

May you have a blessed and grateful Thanksgiving

Memo to the GOP Campaign

I get them in the mail. You probably do to. Those request for donations from the RNC. Sometimes they come with an innocuous survey with no brainer questions like "Do you support a massive government run health care system? Check one Yes No

I usually just throw them out. Oh I intended to write a letter and give them a piece of my mind but somehow with the busy life I am leading it just didn't get done. However I still wanted to and felt I NEEDED to send a strong message to the GOP. I know you feel the same and I know, like myself, that despite our best intent, there wasn't the follow through.

So I decided how can I easily get my message to the GOP? How can you?

Well one picture is worth a thousand words...this graphic (below) is down-loadable and printable right off the site!

So next time you get one of those letters from the RNC asking for donations, all you have to do is print out, and return in the conveniently post-paid envelope supplied to you by the RNC!

Share with your friends, lets get thousands upon thousands of these to the RNC! Send the message..WAKE UP GOP!


Memo to GOP

NO COMPROMISE! South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson called Obama out on his lies.

And Congressman Joe Wilson was right...

Congressional Research Service: ObamaCare will cover illegal immigrants

Unfortunately the GOP answer is not to kill the Bill but to continue government involvement, abet with their plan!

I just received this e-mail from our "dear leader" His statement, "And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last." is the gauntlet thrown down

Friend -- I just finished laying out my plan for health reform at a joint session of Congress. Now, I'm writing directly to you because what happens next is critical -- and I need your help. Change this big will not happen because I ask for it. It can only come when the nation demands it. Congress knows where I stand. Now they need to hear from you. Add your voice: Ask your representatives to support my plan for real health reform in 2009. The heart of my plan is simple: bring stability and security to Americans who already have health insurance, guarantee affordable coverage for those who don't, and rein in the cost of health care. Tonight, I offered a specific plan for how to make it happen. I incorporated the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans to create a plan that's bold, practical, and represents the broad consensus of the American people. We've come closer to real health reform in the last few months than we have in the last 60 years. But those who profit from the status quo -- and those who put partisan advantage above all else -- will fight us every inch of the way. We do not seek that fight, but we will not shrink from it. The stakes are too high to let scare tactics cloud the debate, or to allow partisan bickering to block the path. Your voice, right now, is essential. See my full plan and call on your representatives to support it: http://my.barackobama.com/SupportReform Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last. Thank you, President Barack Obama

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE...THIS NEEDS TO STOP...NOTHING I MEAN NOTHING SHORT OF KILLING THIS BILL IS ACCEPTABLE TO OUR LIBERTY OUR AND TO THE REPUBLIC!

I urge you to CALL..PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALLYOUR REP and tell them as such, "HR3200 NEEDS TO BE KILLED THE VERY FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT"...DO OR DIE NOW FOLKS! NO COMPROMISE!

Another Painful Lesson For The GOP

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Election '08: This year's presidential contest was not, as some predicted, a historic blowout handing unfettered power to the Democrats. A credible Reaganite, in fact, could have even beaten Barack Obama.

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One of the most telling numbers in the IBD/TIPP Poll during the final days of the campaign was the survey's unique measure of intensity among supporters of Barack Obama vs. those of John McCain. Obama backers expressed enthusiasm and confidence that registered in the high 70s, finally finishing at well over 80% on the eve of his election. McCain devotees, by comparison, rarely topped 70% in this gauge of voter passion.

In other words, a whole lot of committed Republicans didn't think McCain — with his late conversion on the Bush tax cuts, his opposition to new drilling in Alaska, and his soft stances on immigration and global warming — would make the ideal GOP president.

Did this "fervor gap" prevent the possible defeat of Obama? It's impossible to know definitively, but it's clear that an un-GOP-sounding McCain echoed Obama and congressional Democrats in blaming "greed" on Wall Street as the cause of the financial crisis instead of strongly defending private markets over government control.

What is also clear is that, once again, the GOP's Reagan coalition was split apart in the primaries — with Mitt Romney getting votes from free market enthusiasts and Mike Huckabee energizing religious conservatives. As a result, a "maverick" who four years ago mulled the idea of switching parties got the nomination by default, campaigning mostly on his compelling life story as hero and POW.

The Republican Party was thus re-taught a stinging lesson in 2008: Its success, as in the past, does not come from narratives that capture the people's imagination, but from ideas that work — economic freedom, caution on government solutions, principled assertiveness in foreign policy and defense of traditional values.

Bob Dole, the 1996 nominee, also suffered the wounds of war. He also chose a running mate that electrified the GOP base. But he too had a credibility problem. As selflessly as Dole served his country in war, few believed that someone who voted for so many tax increases in his career had finally seen the light on Reaganomics, even though he put the author of the Reagan tax cuts, Jack Kemp, on the ticket with him. Bill Clinton had little trouble beating him.

McCain may have named as running mate one of the most exciting up-and-comers in his party in Gov. Sarah Palin, electrifying economic and social conservatives alike. But his campaign kept her on a leash and harshly complained about her anonymously in the press. And it is undeniable that a big reason he chose a conservative heroine to run with him was that his own Reaganite credentials were in serious question.

In the coming weeks and months, President-elect Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders will be claiming that we have just witnessed a far-reaching realignment of the political landscape. In fact, as reporter Robert Novak noted, Obama "may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities."

As a new generation of GOP leaders resist Washington's impending dalliance with socialism and plan for 2010 and 2012, the party must also remind itself that it had a good chance to win the White House in 2008. But it blew it by choosing story over substance.