Very soon, state Republican leaders will be electing a national chairman for the party.
The next leader of the G.O.P. will be facing a daunting task. They will be shepherding a party that has been losing power since 2006 when we lost control of the house of representatives and the senate.
This past election saw us not only fall deeper into minority status in both chambers of Congress, but we lost the last piece of power in federal government that we had since 2006,…the presidency.
There are many things that need to be done to put Republicans back on track and although I contend that much of our success depends on the Republicans we elected to serve and how well they do their legislative jobs, forward momentum can be created with the right person leading the political aspect of the party.
Currently running for the nomination are Katon Dawson of South Carolina, Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, incumbent National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan, Mike Huckabee’s former campaign manager Chip Saltsman of Tennessee, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele and Michigan’s state party Chairman Saul Anuzis.
The race is pretty intense so far and all of the candidates are working hard to sway enough votes in their favor to become the next national committee chairman. In fact many of them have been active on a grassroots Republican site called Rebuild The Party.
Rebuildtheparty.com has been discussing how to do just as its name suggest….rebuild the party. And they do so with us, the voters and activists who are angry at both the way our party has been handling itself and the direction that Washington, D.C. is taking us in.
Now in a joint venture with YouTube, Rebuild The Party is holding their own open debate for the potential RNC Chairmen.
Through January 19th at 11:59 pm eastern standard time, participants can submit their own written question on the Rebuild the Party forum platform or a video questions on YouTube and then embed that question on the Rebuild The Party forum platform.
Participants in Rebuild The Party can then vote on the questions they feel are most important and need to be answered by the candidates. Subsequently, the 10 most highly rated video questions will be answered by each of the candidates, also through their own video submitted to youtube and embedded in the Rebuild The Party forum platform.
In addition to those 10 questions, the candidates may answer any other questions that they would like but the 10 questions with the most votes are musts.
So far there are questions ranging from what will you do to attract young voters to what will you do to elect more Secretaries of States who can manipulate election results as the Democrats set out to do a few years ago?
What’s your question?
Here in New Jersey, our state party leaders have already declared their support for Michigan’s Republican State Chairman, Saul Anuzis but do you have a question that might just bring forth an answer from the candidates that could change their minds?
For Republicans, the election of our next national chairman is probably the single most important decision we can make until the presidential election of 2012. It is a decision that can either help us elect a Republican President in 2012 or drastically impede our chances of doing so.
So now is your chance. If you have strong sentiments about the direction that you think our party needs to go in, now is the time to ask the people who want the responsibility to lead us, if they intend to go in that direction.
To be a part of the debate you have to first sign in to Rebuild the Party at:
http://www.rebuildtheparty.com/
Than you can go to:
http://forum.rebuildtheparty.com/
There you will find the place to submit your question and more details.
The election for Republican National committee Chairman is January 30th so get to work today and help make tomorrow better than yesterday. Ask your question and shape events instead of just watching events.
And tell ‘em u4prez sent 'ya.
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The idea being that I am pointing out is this.
You can please some of the people all the time, but you can't please all the people all the time.
In my experiance if you have no political enemys typicly it means you havent made your stances on issues clear enough to vote for or against.
I also will add, the left is free to start a leftwing talk show, the problem is that everytime they try they fail. Noone wants to listen to the lies. Most of the right wing folks you listed are not vulgar and they deal in facts. I know facts are the enemy of the left that is why the left hates talk radio.
to a point I can understand what you ae saying RJ.
Here are my thoughts, one can be open minded only to a point then ones brain dribbles out, point being that republican and democrat SHOULD be clearly defined and different. Otherwise it's all just shades of grey with nothing realy to polarize on. For instace the military. It traditionaly from 1950 or so on is a big republican draw, Human rights, it's polar opposite
is a traditional draw for Dems from around 1950 or so. So in conclusion it makes the politicians we hire to do the job much more black and white intead of shady grey when they stick with polarizing issues and staces on the platform
I know I would be angry if I woke up every day and looked in the mirror and seen al franken... I would kill myself. Now that you have named the right wing talk show host I can list twice as many vulgar left wing kooks......... Hollywood!
One last thing, for every Al Franken, there are four Ann Coulter's. Just naming progressive talk show host isn't the same. The Right has Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Dennis Prager, Michael Reagan, Michael Medved, Jerry Doyle, I'm sure many more can be named, many more right-wing talkingheads who say the meanest, most vulgar things, including outright lying, to get you to fear liberals. I used to listen to Franken's show, quite a bit actually, and honestly, I never heard the outright smearing and lying and vulgarity you would hear on some of these rightwing shows. And yeah, he's angry, wouldn't you be if you were a leftwing radio host, and the radio is dominated by rightwing jerks spreading lies and smears and saying it in the most disgusting ways? You want an angry leftwing host? Listen to Ray Taliaferro on KGO out of San Francisco, THERE'S a fella who doesn't put up with Republican talking points! Air America and Nova M have nothing on Ray!
As to how far to the center, I think a SLIGHT move to the center would be refreshing. See, here's the problem, the further to the right or left a party goes, the less of a base it ultimately has. The middle, where most Americans are, may be swayed some if you're on the far left or right, but instead of attacking them, how about listening to them? Instead of attacking the Left, how about listening to them? I know Obama has listened to the Right, and there are a lot of progressives not at all liking it. Democrats are winning these days, not necessarily because they themselves have done anything great, but because they're not so far to one side as to be alienating everyone else.
And when someone brings up what the Democrats need to do, Erock, jumping on Al Franken will be relevant. Save it for that time.
O come on Arjay Fraken is a mean and angery person as his books clearly state but no one cares. Heck he might end up as a Senator. Coulter is not to be taken seriosly sorta like Fraken or any others on the left who are like Anne.
And how far to the Center should the GOP go? I mean clearly I dont want 2 parties mimmiking each other.
O come on Arjay Fraken is a mean and angery person as his books clearly state but no one cares. Heck he might end up as a Senator. Coulter is not to be taken seriosly sorta like Fraken or any others on the left who are like Anne.
And how far to the Center should the GOP go? I mean clearly I dont want 2 parties mimmiking each other.
My question to the next head of the RNC would be, are you going to continue this push harder to the right, or are you going to come back to the center a little bit? Are you going to promote hardcore conservatives or moderates? Ever since Gingrich's Contract with America, Republicans have been not only pushing harder and harder to the right, but they have alienated everyone who won't follow. You can only go so far bagging on liberals, but if you don't have a solid alternative that appeals to a broader base, you're going to sound little more than bickering partisans. I'm not signing up on some website to say what I can say here. The days of Ann Coulter recklessly bashing the Left are over, if for no other reason, it tells everyone to the left of her that she is just an angry and mean person, and if she is somehow a spokesperson for Republican values, she, and Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, will doom the party. If you want votes from the center and left, you can't always be on the attack.
Here is my question what will they do with Bush? And or other neo-cons who clearly have hurt the party. Will they stop being hyporcritial about spending and limited government? Do they know how to win with more then just the south? Do they understand the new technology?
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