Is The RNC Even Relevant?
Having been blogging and swimming around as a small fish in the RNC pond for a few years and now watching the race for chairman play out up close and personal-like, the GOP establishment is what it is. Unfortunately, from Boehner pushing Cino, to Steele endorsing her, while others are more interested in the best deal they can cut, as opposed to anything else – the GOP establishment just isn't much. As currently comprised, I have very little faith it can offer any grassroots American movement what it needs in the way of leadership. That is why the Tea Party came to be in the first place, right?
The RNC can fete its new Little Preince all it wants, they are no longer the only party in town. And the grassroots and the Tea Party rock in ways they never can, or will. So, let's roll with it … but, most of all, let's roll on! via Big Government. Hey, at least we aren't $20 million in debt out of the gate with a weak fund raiser in charge. Heh!
Tonight, the RNC elected Reince Priebus as the next RNC Chair. As state chair in WI, Priebus managed to shrink the number of both small and major donors. (There is a reason the GOP is called the stupid party.) Donate money to the RNC at your own peril. We will have news soon about an alternative. Hold onto your checkbooks for now though. There will be a multi-pronged effort to deny donations to the RNC. Stay tuned.
You did some truly ground breaking work at trying to save the RNC from themselves and yet again, proving they are the STUPID party they have chosen a person who wouldn’t know how to fundraise if it smacked him in the face from teh head office (oh right that is how he got his funds..lol). I look forward to a place to send my dollars that is SERIOUS about a no holds bar Conservative candidates for 2012 who do not meddle in the mushy middle but are unapologetic Conservatives. Boehner btw when 60+ more Conservatives join the 65+ Conservatives in the House will NOT be the next Speaker of the House with his CINO (Conservative in name only) endorsement!
No offense to the new GOP head, but how is “Reince Priebus” pronounced?
You’re right Dan.
The RNC is in financial trouble now because Michael Steele (by his actions, words, and competence) couldn’t make a convincing argument that it was better to give money to the RNC than to give money directly to candidates or other political organizations (like American Crossroads).
That said, it doesn’t mean that the RNC is not vitally important. Politicans (and voters) rarely write legislation or plot national political strategy. This is more the responsiblity of national political leaders in these organizations. The people voting today were one degree of separation away from the pollers, the messagers, and the persons who write bills and make policy. For example, Cino matters because she is the bridge between corporations supporting the individual mandate and the writing of the health care legislation whether she is the RNC chair or not. The same goes for Priebus.
The grassroots has done a good job at taking away the large messaging away from the national organization. They are choosing their own candidates. They are changing the political debate. They still have to be part of the group of persons who write legislation and form political strategy at the national level, and this is the part that is still missing. The RNC is full of Cino’s and Priebus’s, and I don’t see the same energy or a movement to change that.
Priebus will soon be begging Karl Rove for that Bush money he is good at collecting from the one-world-without-borders globalists that “own” both Democratic parties. As the GOP fails to co-opt the Tea Party (40% of voters and growing), the loss of credibility with those cronies will make a 3rd party viable. After all, the GOP beat the Dems who are even weaker against the Tea Party so where do they go?
It would really be exciting if Bachmann, Palin, Pence, Demint, or Rubio led the Tea Party freshman class into a new party in the tradition of Abraham Lincoln leading one-third of the Whigs into the Republican Party many years ago. Soon after, the Whigs couldn’t qualify for state after state and went out of business. The Whigs were just as viable leading up to that day as the GOP is today and their fate would be the same: RIP.
That’s all it takes to change everything. The GOP would fall to a party that actually stands for something far different the leftist, global corporate statist agenda both Dems and GOP are cramming down our throats. With the demise of the GOP and without their help propping up the “Dem” agenda, the Dems would have to move to the right in order to be competitive in elections. The political “center” would thus be reconciled to what most of the people want, not to the midpoint of the very leftist spectrum being offered by the current bought-and-paid-for one-party system.
The end of the GOP may be much closer than many think.
And, again. Not. one. dime.
I’m done with all of them. I tried to hang on, but I think I’ll be changing my regisration to the Conservative Party. Eff ‘em.
And, evidently staying within the Republican Party for so long has contributed to my inept typing skills today.
I will be changing my registration, not whatever the heck I typed.
This is not the Democratic Party. The GOP voter base is not inescapably tied to it by financial entitlements and social preferences. If the RNC tries to play kingmaker, if it tries to pit its dwindling base of large institutional donors against the genuinely broad pool of small GOP voters to hand pick candidates these jaded insiders might approve of, then they are done. THEY will be the new Third Party, in the way the Whigs became one in the face of the nascent GOP in the 1850′s.
BTW, I just heard Hannity defending Steele as a solid defender of the conservative movement. Yikes. I just don’t believe anything Hannity says anymore. He may be a registered Conservative Party member allowing him a tricky claim that he is a Conservative first, Republican second but the reality is that he votes Republican first. He is the linchpin for the establishment GOP these days. It’s all about beating Obama, not about reclaiming the GOP.
Third party, here we come.
Hmmmm.
1. I find Hannity to be both unpersuasive and not really someone I’d look to for information or advice.
2. So The Little Prince has won the RNC chair eh? Bet one of his first acts is to hire a company that hires Steele.
3. Yawn. Establishment Republicans choose establishment republican to represent establishment republicans to establishment republicans.
Is the RNC relevant? Only to those that give money to it. The rest of us, who have taken the mantle of conservative away from the RNC, will give directly to our candidates of choice. RNC chair? Who cares? In this day a candidate for the conservative vote is what we want. Definitely NOT an RNC “next-in-line” choice. Who cares who chairs the RNC? As a conservative, I don’t. I will give my money to candidates that share my vision.
I bet Americas anchor man could raise some money for conservatives.
“I find Hannity to be both unpersuasive…”
An emetic, a cloying, truculent toady.
Rush could raise quite a bit of money if the right candidate was located. Hannity is a toy. Rush is a weapon.
3. Yawn. Establishment Republicans choose establishment republican to represent establishment republicans to establishment republicans.
Posted by: memomachine
Nails it.
I usually watch Hannity only because he does invite a lot of conservatives to his show. But the core of his show is always devoted to Gingrich or Bush or some other RINO determined to undermine or co-opt the Tea Party. He is also a different person depending who he is interviewing. While he will challenge the lesser RINOs, he turns into a starry-eyed little girl at the feet of Bush, Gingrich, and the rest of the upper end RINOs. He is about the Republican party and nothing else. “The Stop Obama Express”. How about “The Reclaim the GOP Express in 2011″ first Hannity? How about “There Will Be No 2012 For The GOP IF You Get 2011 Wrong Express!”
Great. Another Bushie blaims the Tea Party for his misfortunes.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6216774/tom_delays_attorney_blames_tea_party.html
Yeah, right, because Hannity’s books, “Conservative Victory” and “Let Freedom Ring”, are all about propping up the Republican Party over Conservative Principles.
/sarc
Some of you attacking Hannity as “The Stop Obama Express” and having a love fest with Gingrich and Bush, obviously miss the fact that some of us Conservatives are pretty damn grateful Hannity, Beck, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, as well as many more Patriots, use their voices, their forums, their actions, exposing corruption, the onslaught of this administration to spiral us towards Socialism, raising awareness and money for our Soldiers and their families, who constantly talk about Conservative Principles over Republican Beltway Politics.
Sean Hannity takes on the Liberals on his radio program, letting them spew their deranged, zombie, talking points, then calling them out.
I appreciate the Sean Hannitys, Mark Levins, Glenn Becks, Rush Limbaughs, oh and not to leave out Laura Ingrahams, in this, the “Good Fight”.
Some of you are more RINO than you want to admit. You are so quick to judge those who are actively trying to stop our country from a demise of Socialism without telling us just what it is YOU have done.
I don’t want to “reclaim the GOP Express”, I want my country to be free from Government Overreach. I want my Government to do what our Founding Fathers intended it to do, and NO more than that.
The right side of this blog site has a rolling MSNBC advertisement. Is it encouraging to see the constant onslaught against the GOP and particularly our Conservative Patriots, excoriated 24/7? Hardly.
Will no Right Media outlet advertise on this blog site so we don’t have to come to a place we consider SANE only to be reminded of the hate and lies others, including the Leftist cult members who frequent RWV, spew?
Soros’s owned insurance company “Progressive” advertises here for crying out loud.
“Great. Another Bushie blaims the Tea Party for his misfortunes.”
But, Philly…
You need to read the story, NOT the misleading head-line.
DeLay’s attorney, Dick DeGuerin, explained the Tea Party connection by saying, “We went to trial on the very day people across the country, voters, rebelled against politics.” While DeLay presumably does not differ much ideologically from the Tea Party, their inconveniently timed uprising might have irritated liberal jury members, who took their wrath out on Delay.
T, I think Hannity is a registered CONSERVATIVE.
Compared to Limbaugh, Hannity is a base-hitter…but who isn’t?
I was naive enough to think Wagner had a good chance. It will take two more national elections to create a conservative Congress. Meanwhile, the RNC can watch from the bleachers. They just walked off the field. SarahPAC won’t be sending money to RINO candidates nor blowing your money on nonsense.
10 long, boring posts about some guy whose name I can’t pronounce and now the RNC isn’t relevant? Methinks you’re the one who isn’t relevant. You keep betting on the wrong horse!
Dan,
You’ve identified the symptom. You have not identified the problem. Your faith in teabaggers is misplaced. They are neither sane nor rational. They will be remembered in history for destroying the GOP. Your failure to understand the demographic differences between off-year and on-year elections is irresponsible. There is no there there with teabaggers. Yes, they are ruffians who must be contained. However, one does not expect a ditch-digger to do brain surgery. It is a grave mistake for you to think our party is not facing the same shellacking it did in 1996, with a difference… there are no credible thinkers to lead a minority…. teabagger rhetoric will not get us anywhere in 2012 as it is getting us no where in 2011.