The person who has no stake in the 2A argument(although they really do) is the one I've been thinking of lately. How do we get others on board for reasons other than the 2A? We need their numbers. As you point out sending them to mdshooters is not a real option. The DINO page is a very nice alternative but we still need face time. It starts with talking to your friends about how their vote is disenfranchised by being left out of the primary when we know where the races are decided in most cases. I have two people on the fence now with this argument. If I get them then I likely get their family as well. Leveraging the voter conversions will push us over the tipping point.
It really does come down to face time networking.
Do your part and bring along some more people and they may do the same.
patience, persistence, publicity
I like this, can I plagarize? If he does this the media will be asking him why- its going to get a shot of publicity.
Agreed. The Frosh/AG aspect gives all new impetus to change.
For this to be effective, there needs to be some sort of organization which can contact members and designate a single candidate to vote for (hopefully one that has a chance of winning, not the DINO candidate that espouses right-wing agendas, and has no chance of getting elected). I've read numerous posts of people saying that it "shouldn't be just a 2A issue", that other GOP dogmas like taxes and regulation could be addressed. This is a major mistake IMO.
If you put forth a candidate with right-wing viewpoints, in mostly Democratic districts, they will get clobbered. We need to vet centrist candidates (who are often going to espouse centrist viewpoints that many here might disagree with), but who are friendly toward 2A issues. We will need to pick our battles. You will not be able to beat incumbents in primaries unless you have the support of middle-ground voters (and hopefully, some Lefties). You will also need to focus all your voting block on one candidate to maximize the impact of our smaller numbers. This will all take coordination, and centralized control (or at least centralized communication). I hope the DINO idea will scale-up, and get some results, but without the aforementioned problems being addressed; I am not confident it will be effective.
That said, I am going to change my my party status once again, from Independent to Democrat. We'll see what happens. Even if opposition candidates don't win, they might scare incumbents into taking a less extreme position if they get a good primary fight.
For this to be effective, there needs to be some sort of organization which can contact members and designate a single candidate to vote for (hopefully one that has a chance of winning, not the DINO candidate that espouses right-wing agendas, and has no chance of getting elected). I've read numerous posts of people saying that it "shouldn't be just a 2A issue", that other GOP dogmas like taxes and regulation could be addressed. This is a major mistake IMO.
If you put forth a candidate with right-wing viewpoints, in mostly Democratic districts, they will get clobbered. We need to vet centrist candidates (who are often going to espouse centrist viewpoints that many here might disagree with), but who are friendly toward 2A issues. We will need to pick our battles. You will not be able to beat incumbents in primaries unless you have the support of middle-ground voters (and hopefully, some Lefties). You will also need to focus all your voting block on one candidate to maximize the impact of our smaller numbers. This will all take coordination, and centralized control (or at least centralized communication). I hope the DINO idea will scale-up, and get some results, but without the aforementioned problems being addressed; I am not confident it will be effective.
That said, I am going to change my my party status once again, from Independent to Democrat. We'll see what happens. Even if opposition candidates don't win, they might scare incumbents into taking a less extreme position if they get a good primary fight.
Short-term this is solely about getting those who voted for SB-281 voted out, even if it means replacing them with someone just as bad.