Ralph Reed, the founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, the increasingly powerful grassroots conservative activist group, said his conservative group will turn itself into a national organization with a role in the Republican takeover of the American government in the 2012 election and beyond.

His goal is 5 million members, an annual budget of $100 million, and full-time lobbyists in all 50 state capitols. Republicans, he said, would reap the rewards:

"A president, a vice president, a majority of the U.S. House and not just a 228, 230 majority in the House, I believe it could be 260, 270, 275. Governors in 30 states, and control of both houses of the legislature in 25 states by the end of the next decade"