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.

So if you are a conservative, I invite you to partner with Independence Caucus and use our tools to accomplish our common goal of replacing the bad incumbents with principled challengers. Independence Caucus is the last mile solution to accomplishing that goal. We have the following five golden keys which will win elections:

1. Independence Caucus has a well defined candidate vetting process which includes a set of 80 principle-based vetting questions, which we pose to all potential candidates for office. We believe that this is a job interview, and that the primary reason we have so many people in office who have not represented us well in the past is because we have not vetted them properly. The Independence Caucus members and partners for each area (comprised of people who are in that particular candidate’s voting district), must agree with at least a 70% majority, that the candidate is the right person to back before Independence Caucus will endorse that candidate.
2. We conduct 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). We use that research to give our endorsed candidates an advantage in campaigning against that incumbent.
3. Both myself and my co-founder of the Independence Caucus, understand 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.  Our first win was Jason Chaffetz from Utah’s third Congressional district.  Chaffetz is the Congressman who sleeps on his cot in his Washington office to save the tax payers money.  Both Frank Anderson and myself, as co-founders of Independence Caucus, helped Chaffetz beat an incumbent Congressman while being outspent by 6:1.
4. We’ve identified 26 specific functional positions within a campaign that are needed in order to win and beat compromised incumbents who are owned by the big money special interest groups.
5. Finally, the Independence Caucus currently has five part-time programmers helping to develop a powerful political social networking tool, which connects candidates to enthusiastic and motivated volunteers for their campaigns. This social networking tool contains all the tools a candidate needs to manage his/her campaign, as well as the tools and training volunteers need to be most effective in working for their chosen candidate. As a part-time effort, this will take some time, and we believe at the speed our opposition is driving our country into massive debt and socialism, we need more resources to accomplish this sooner (anyone care to open up their checkbook and help move things along faster?)

So let’s stop with the in-fighting already. And can we please stop creating conservative group after conservative group–most of which simply replicate the function of an already existing group? This is counter productive and diffuses our focus and effectiveness. I understand there are those who think they’ve got a better way and a better idea and that’s why they think it’s so important to create another brand new conservative group. How I wish they would just bring their innovation to an alreaady existing group and apply themselves fully within that structure. Really, we have enough egos out there already. This is not about personality, it’s about principles. So let’s all set our personal agendas aside and work together to accomplish our common goal. If we are divided we WILL fail. But if we are united we will SUCCEED!