While it's true that McDaniel is not personally responsible for all the losses, the GOP poohbahs in general are -- and she's the mascot for all that failure. Bottom line: the GOP does not listen to its own voters! How dumb is that?? And the GOP masterminds have been doing that for more than a decade, starting with the 2010 senatorial elections, when, for example The Turtle sabotaged some Republican nominees in favor of his own awful choices, like Senator Lisa. After years of that sort of BS, R voters are fed up. We don't want those people ruining our party and thus our country! The DC party thinks we'll vote for them anyway because they think we have nowhere else to go. That explains Trump, so they hate him even more than many Democrats do. That's all you need to know.
The GOP bosses have a history of denying support to those R candidates it does not like, and McDaniel is continuing that awful tradition when she says she would not fund Vivek's campaign at all. As chairman, she's supposed to be neutral. She disqualified herself with that one comment, without realizing that's the way her colleagues have been acting for too long. Political inbreeding does that.
We're fed up, and we simply won't turn out for these business-as-usual losers. They would rather lose than listen to their voters, as long as they get to keep the perks at the DC trough. So Dems win, but the only hope for conservatives, traditionalists, and patriots to win is to destroy the Republican Dinosaur Party, the "Stupid Party", first. That organization is hopeless.
The party should present a unified national platform on national issues, like Newt did in '94, and as the R's lamely tried to do last round. Abortion is now a state issue, as is appropriate; federal candidates should avoid it. Congressional calls for a national abortion ban is not only unwise and unconstitutional, it's a sure political loser. The biggest consensus on that issue is anti-absolutist in either direction. We can count on the media, which are really the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, to demagogue this as all other issues, so it's the national Republican Party (or its truly dedicated conservative successor) which must relentlessly convey the truth. It hasn't done that. And waiting until "election season", like the Rs always do, is too late -- it has to be nonstop -- just like the Dems do on every issue of importance to them. By the time our side starts, the Dems are already nearing the finish line. That's the responsibility of "leaders" like the ineffectual McDaniel and the failed McCarthy. They did not do their jobs. Replacement is necessary.
Issues of national importance include all the ones on which the Rs have majority or at least plurality support throughout the nation. Why not hammer on those issues, year round, 24/7? When the Rs do get power, they fail to give their voters what the latter thought they voted for. So no surprise when some of those voters drift away. The DC GOP, as an organization, is clueless. That's on the leadership, in every branch of the party. Vivek is right.
Not for me to say. I presume those 127 members elect their chairman. I would urge them to look for someone who had proven success in getting "conservative" Republicans elected while staying neutral in internal contests. Perhaps a state chairman who was able to help R candidates overcome disadvantages in party registration.
I used the scare quotes because I don't think of those who support the originalist interpretation of the Constitution as "conservative" -- that's the most liberal governing document ever created. Those who seek to preserve -- conserve -- traditional American values are in fact the true liberals, whereas Progressives are necessarily totalitarian in inclination, or become so over time. They're the real reactionaries who resist challenges to their visions of utopia, the real "right-wingers". And a true constitutional conservative would never endorse national legislation on matters reserved to the states, like laws on sex, marriage, abortion, drugs, etc.
A sobering piece for sure. There is a lot the GOP needs to confront contained here. The sooner they do the better.
While it's true that McDaniel is not personally responsible for all the losses, the GOP poohbahs in general are -- and she's the mascot for all that failure. Bottom line: the GOP does not listen to its own voters! How dumb is that?? And the GOP masterminds have been doing that for more than a decade, starting with the 2010 senatorial elections, when, for example The Turtle sabotaged some Republican nominees in favor of his own awful choices, like Senator Lisa. After years of that sort of BS, R voters are fed up. We don't want those people ruining our party and thus our country! The DC party thinks we'll vote for them anyway because they think we have nowhere else to go. That explains Trump, so they hate him even more than many Democrats do. That's all you need to know.
The GOP bosses have a history of denying support to those R candidates it does not like, and McDaniel is continuing that awful tradition when she says she would not fund Vivek's campaign at all. As chairman, she's supposed to be neutral. She disqualified herself with that one comment, without realizing that's the way her colleagues have been acting for too long. Political inbreeding does that.
We're fed up, and we simply won't turn out for these business-as-usual losers. They would rather lose than listen to their voters, as long as they get to keep the perks at the DC trough. So Dems win, but the only hope for conservatives, traditionalists, and patriots to win is to destroy the Republican Dinosaur Party, the "Stupid Party", first. That organization is hopeless.
The party should present a unified national platform on national issues, like Newt did in '94, and as the R's lamely tried to do last round. Abortion is now a state issue, as is appropriate; federal candidates should avoid it. Congressional calls for a national abortion ban is not only unwise and unconstitutional, it's a sure political loser. The biggest consensus on that issue is anti-absolutist in either direction. We can count on the media, which are really the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, to demagogue this as all other issues, so it's the national Republican Party (or its truly dedicated conservative successor) which must relentlessly convey the truth. It hasn't done that. And waiting until "election season", like the Rs always do, is too late -- it has to be nonstop -- just like the Dems do on every issue of importance to them. By the time our side starts, the Dems are already nearing the finish line. That's the responsibility of "leaders" like the ineffectual McDaniel and the failed McCarthy. They did not do their jobs. Replacement is necessary.
Issues of national importance include all the ones on which the Rs have majority or at least plurality support throughout the nation. Why not hammer on those issues, year round, 24/7? When the Rs do get power, they fail to give their voters what the latter thought they voted for. So no surprise when some of those voters drift away. The DC GOP, as an organization, is clueless. That's on the leadership, in every branch of the party. Vivek is right.
Whom would you replace Ronna with, and how might you go about getting them elected (there are 127 or so members of the RNC)?
Not for me to say. I presume those 127 members elect their chairman. I would urge them to look for someone who had proven success in getting "conservative" Republicans elected while staying neutral in internal contests. Perhaps a state chairman who was able to help R candidates overcome disadvantages in party registration.
I used the scare quotes because I don't think of those who support the originalist interpretation of the Constitution as "conservative" -- that's the most liberal governing document ever created. Those who seek to preserve -- conserve -- traditional American values are in fact the true liberals, whereas Progressives are necessarily totalitarian in inclination, or become so over time. They're the real reactionaries who resist challenges to their visions of utopia, the real "right-wingers". And a true constitutional conservative would never endorse national legislation on matters reserved to the states, like laws on sex, marriage, abortion, drugs, etc.