Anger erupted on twitter after posted a photoshopped cleavage picture of Sarah Palin on his Diary, but the content of his post misstated her position, and shows how little he knows about the current fight going on in the GOP.

For all its buzz, RedState is a fairly static presence on the web.  For instance, you can miss reading it for about 2 years, and then jump back in, and they are saying the same thing, with the same people, pointing out the same circumstance, and frankly, being really nasty and angry in the comment section.

List says that Palin’s third party solution is part of the problem.  He knows she didn’t come up with a third party plan, and if he knows anything about boots-on-the-ground grassroots work, he would know that the third party idea is prevalent in the GOP rank and file. In his misleading post, List points to another RedState writer and how he has laid out the way to take over the GOP.

Is List ‘taking over’ the GOP?  It seems to me that if you are going to preach it, you ought to do it.  If he is in the fight, good, but I do not see the insight in his post that would prove such.  For him, and his clique at RedState, I’ll lend a hand to show what has happened to warrant what many see as a possible alternative.  And I’d like to stress the fact that Palin didn’t say she’s going third, she said, ‘if’ the current GOP establishment keeps on doing what they are doing, it certainly is a factor.

In mid 2009, we began to see a serious uptick in the number of people interested in joining the Republican party, asking to become precinct delegates.  These were the tea party people, some Ron Paul people, and some mainstream conservatives.  The political nature of people who wish to make changes is not always pleasant, and almost immediately, moderates within the party bristled at these newbies, unless the newcomers did not overtly declare what they were up to.  Bad blood combined with primary challenges in 2010 caused a greater divide, with the party insisting that the tea party had very little if anything to do with any wins in 2010, but rather, a vast acceptance of the Republican message and the great amounts of money they raised.

Those raised dollars and wins were directly the result of ordinary Americans being bold and strong and sure of themselves, that if they got many to vote for Republicans, that the Republicans would do what they said during the campaign, and defund Obamacare, and really use the power of the purse in the House to stop Obama.

The newcomers to politics then watched in horror as John Boehner thwarted every attempt to defund Obamacare, and basically told the tea party to go pound sand.  Many said, “Screw this crap,” and headed home.

It was then that a third party was floated.

Convinced that the tea party and the Republican party could still coexist within the same ranks, thousands of activists worked to keep the tea party and moderates off each other’s toes, when in waltzed Rove and the rest of the establishment, telling us all that the only true conservative who could win a Presidential election against Obama the Horrible was Willard Romney.

More bad blood was at hand when the consultants’ scorched earth policy to win Willard the nomination, culminated with a rules change via Mitt Romney’s attorney at the Tampa convention which would have seriously gutted any attempt by conservative activists to have a say in any future Presidential election.

Predictable by any standard, the moderate Mitt Romney lost to the ultra-radical leftist punk-in-chief.

Angered and rightly so, conservatives called for the ousting of Boehner, and were ridiculed.  Boehner purged key conservatives from leadership positions based on his own ego and, the liberal talking heads began pushing for amnesty and calling for the dismissal of social conservatives, in short, THEY FRACTURED THEIR OWN PARTY.

As Michelle Malkin put it, Rove is now heading up an “incumbency protection racket,” but that’s just part of the story.

Congressional staffers are creating a second layer of protection for their congresslizards who got elected in 2010 and are hanging on till the bennie’s kick in.  State GOP’s are preferentially treating moderates for state committee positions, and ostracizing those who speak out.  All social conservatives who speak against gay “marriage” are being villified and preferential treatment is given to young libertarians who would force God out of our public square as happily as the Marxist left.  Young moderates with ambition are accepting the name, “The Young Establishment,” and are happy to be so.

These recent actions by the establishment are primary protection.  They figured out the game in 2010, and are implementing guards to keep moderates, or teapublicans who have turned moderate in place.

At the same time, they are strategically abusing the word conservative, using Zuckerberg’s front group and Soros-funded ‘Evangelical’ groups to push amnesty, and I’m sure you know the rest of the very anti-conservative path they have taken.

Considering that the only way politicians on the right side of the aisle keep their jobs is if conservatives continue to vote for them, the only leverage we have right now is to refuse to work for or vote for them.  A step further from that, is to actively work to defeat them, which is only deployed if there is a viable third party effort.

Now, taking over the GOP, as you can see, is a huge task, but List’s arguments for precinct delegate domination has its good points and bad points.

You can fill your precincts with conservatives, and then some are not really sure they want to be that outspoken and begin to see the moderate point of view.  You would have to love politics and the political arena to really do a boffo job of it, and people like that are very hard to find, not to mention, due to the recent turn against its base, people are unwilling to touch anything Republican right now.  The tea party has left in a lot of areas, distrusting everyone connected with the GOP, even those of us who are working hard.   But a true problem is, even if you fill all your precincts with willing conservatives, there are only so many who become convention delegates, and there are always young, unmarried, untethered, ambitious yesmen to fill up district paid positions, put there to quarantine the outspoken conservative.

And I haven’t even yet commented on how Fox News is hurting us too.

All is done by the establishment to quash what is already happening in the districts, to control the message, and to stop conservative influence.

Think that’ll stop?  Things are getting messed up quick, and if the establishment keeps treating the base in such a way, they will be responsible for ending the Republican party forever, they already may have.

And that is really Palin’s point.  Since the RNC and top PACs seem to think they have the winning keys, rejecting Reagan’s legacy and path to victory, twisting the truth and so on, it is up to them if they want to save the party.

Ironically, the Republican party report prematurely labeled, “The GOP autopsy report,” may have been the biggest contributing factor to its death.

The current leadership is not building bridges, it is actively silencing its base.  The difference between now and the Reagan revolution, is that back then, there were a good number of Republican politicians who were unwilling to demoralize its base.  Now, we have a massive consultant class, literally eating up all the campaign cash, and a handful of self-appointed swami’s who think they know the path to victory, though their records couldn’t attest to it.

Will the GOP be willing to turn around? Not unless we have conservative leadership, and the only way to change the current leadership is if some State Committeeman challenges Reince Priebus as RNC chief, and gets in, yet I do not think we have a majority of conservatives in the RNC to pull that off, and every conservative must publicly get an answer from every Congressional hopeful to the question, “Will you support John Boehner as Speaker?” If they answer yes, they have chosen poorly.

As to the complaint that we will be ruled for a very long time with Democrats in charge without any hope of reprieve if a third party forms, we just lost the biggest, most winnable contest this nation has ever seen, and with the current leadership silencing conservatives, we will be ruled for a very long time with Democrats in charge.

UPDATE: List responded to an email, saying that he honestly thought the picture of Palin was a flattering, real picture of her, and ran out of time to replace the pic before the whole thing blew up.  I’m not sure I buy that.  To have a pic of Santa in July is odd.