Monday, December 22, 2008
Posted by:
Tom DeLay
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10:43 AM
RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, who is now running for re-election, recently announced a new project to be run out of the national committee - The Center for Republican Renewal. Now this, simply put, is a horrible idea. While I appreciate Chairman Duncan for thinking outside the box, we'd be better off paying more attention to what the Democrats have built over the last eight years and working off of a new model. This new political paradigm all comes down to campaign finance reform. What John McCain thought (hoped?) would be a shot in the arm to our campaigns turned out to be a shot in the foot to the Republican Party. Karl Rove and the Bush team were simply convinced that Republicans would rake in the dough when we doubled the individual contribution limits...but what they didn't realize was the incredible amount of soft money that would pour in to finance liberal political capital. Unions, foundations, and wealthy individuals all ponied up vast amounts of their resources to build an outside organization - a Shadow Party, as David Horowitz calls it. Couple that with a national candidate’s (without the last name Bush) unexpected hard dollar fundraising prowess and, well, here we are. The good news is there are about twice as many conservative think tanks as liberal ones, yet the Republican National Committee - a party organization with the sole goal to elect Republicans to office, is potentially wasting scarce, overly-regulated, hard dollars on ten staffers to write talking points and develop a new website. They don't need a think tank to develop new ideas, we already have a party platform for that. My suggestion: we as conservatives don't need another Think Tank, what we need is an Action Tank that can partner the issue and idea-based resources available through Heritage, AEI, Hudson, etc, with the right legislators and advocacy groups to make these big thoughts actually happen. It's something I always wish we had when I was in leadership, and something we can easily do now, through a 501(c)3 that can take unlimited, tax deductible donations. Call the RNC and tell them they'd be better off using their hard money for races, party building, and communicating our conservative platform.
Conservatives who want to keep their country, rule of law and th Republic have stopped giving/donating time to the GOP because they have been representing the employers of illegal aliens and not the citizens. If the GOP wants to survive they have to choose to stand up for the citizens.
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Amen!
Location,location,location- no it's action,action,action!!! It's time to wake up and move.
If we are the party of business, free markets and entrepeneurs then we have to put our money on the line and get our message out. The Dems bought a half hour of prime time before election day to explain their platform for "change".
The RNC needs to do the same and not wait for the next election either.
Trust connservative "geeks" to design a website designed to communicate with the average guy/gal, not be too proud to ask for a $5.00 donation and drop 12 point Times Roman. It's about capturing emails, cell phone #s,expanding the party, working with the Black and Latino caucuses to promote and support minority candidates. |
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What the Rep Party needs is to change its reason for being. What we have gotten the last 8 years or so is a party of well to do elites who believe in crony capitalism and office by succession of relatives, a la the Dems, to name just two things. Now the Reps want to replace Mel Martinez with another Bush??!! WTF are they thinking? How many Bushes and McCains have to side with the socialist/facist crony capitalist Dems before they wake up to reality? The Rockefeller Republicans will forever be a minority. If the Rep party survives it will have to be a party of Reagan conservatism. The Rockefellers will just have to become Dems, which they are in all but name already. Face it Rep Party Political Bosses, YOU are the enemy too and we are not going to give you guys our money or our votes unless or until the old guard McCains/Bushes/Rockefellers et al are ALL gone and replaced by Reagan conservatives. The Rockefellers have screwed us too many times. Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM & Chrysler, etc, etc, etc, McCain for Pres, on and on..........
You guys are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Good luck, and AMF. |
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I've been getting a lot of letters in the mail asking for donations. The rest is fluff.
Obama is getting donations at $50,000 a pop for his inauguration. Before RNC dumps money in the campaign pot they could take donations for a foreclosure fund... or anothers hands-on fund.
America can spend its donations where we told them we'd spend it.
Or how's this? Did you know we have financial management programs for our troops? Some are stressed out because they too are dealing with possible or actual foreclosures. Do we send guys into battle under these circumstances?
If Americans can SEE results from their money it counts. Do it and show it. THAT's a party people buy into. |
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Middle class voters who still support the Rep Party are accepting their status as tax slaves for the elites. The top 10% of income earners are getting shafted like middle class folks. They are helping to pay for the bailouts, but they can better afford it and they are most likely closely tied financially to the entities getting bailed out. The lower income classes pay no income tax so they aren't paying for the bailouts, except indirectly via less opportunities to move up. We in the middle are getting totally hosed. The Rep Party leadership is responsible directly and indirectly as much as the Dems. Wake up. Don't support any Rep Party makeover or reform that isn't Reagan Conservatism. They can come up with any kind of Dem copycat plan they want, without Reagan conservatives running things, it will not matter because you will not be represented, but you will pay for it.
NO TAXATION, WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. |
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If the GOP wants to regain what it lost they need to explain why they doubled the national debt while Bush was in office while driving the country into economic ruin. People no longer trust the Republican Party to do what is right for the country. The GOP also needs to get rid of the radical right wing portion of the party which has driven the moderate Republicans to the other side. |
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Delay had his chance to take "action" and he is one of the ones who led us into the wilderness. Pardon me if I don't take his directions seriously anymore. We all know the way out is to stop listening to the people who got us here turn to the right and forge striaght ahead without them. |
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Who are the radical right wingers in your estimation? |
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CHALLENGE OBAMA'S ELIGIBILITY TO BE POTUS, OR FORGET IT ALL....IF YOU WILL NOT STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, AND OUR CONSTITUION, THEN YOU WILL DIE AS A PARTY AND THE DEMO'S WILL RULE FOREVER.
ONE MUST HAVE THE "RESPECT' OF ITS PEOPLE TO WIN, AND YOU ,AS A STRONG PARTY, HAVE THE STANDING TO CHALLENGE THE SCOTUS TO DEMAND THAT THE CONSTITUION BE UPHELD.
OBAMA HAS ALL OF YOU BY THE THROAT, AND ITS GETTING TIGHTER, AND YOU DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.....BUT DREAM OF BEING SOMETHING......
NEVER WILL HAPPEN IF YOU STAND BY AND BE PUSHED AROUND.... |
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Sandra, keep your liberal boloney. The Republicans can not win without conservatives and a moderate, John McShame, ran and lost. The republicans cannot win without conservatives and the far right. That was proven in the last election. Duncan and Boehner needs to step down for the good of the party. Let the newcomers take over. Stand UP And fight the liberal lies each and every time. When the RNC allows that bull to go on uncallenged it appears to be true. |
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Tommy, where were you, when we needed ya?
When the Republicans got control of Congress in January of 1995 they took care of some friends.
Cotton Subsidies by year, Texas
1995-----$11,326,513
1996----$192,005,776
1997----$177,186,203
1998----$335,010,715
1999----$511,405,328
2000----$488,484,785
2001----$707,989,054
2002----$583,405,392
2003----$807,291,334
2004----$475,324,635
2005--$1,036,033,167
Total $5,325,462,901
That's 5 billion dollars!
Does you know that most of the cotton grown in the USA is exported. Just look at the label on your clothes for that information. Guess what country is the number one importer of US cotton?
You got it. China.
The US taxpayer is subsidizing t-shirt manufacturing in China. Is that patriotic? Tom Delay's district gets a lion's share of the handouts. Great work, Tommy Boy!
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"CHALLENGE OBAMA'S ELIGIBILITY TO BE POTUS"
The fact is, President-elect Hussein produce a legal US birth certificate in order to keep the 'moron-brigade' distracted.
I heard you got a promotion in the brigade. Keep up the good work! |
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Obviously people blame Delay for being part of the Republican decline, but anyone from Texas knows the guy would NEVER have been prosecuted if he were not successful (and by the way, last time I checked all these years later, he's still not been put on trial). He was targeted by an arm of the democratic party located in Austin Texas -- the same prosecutor who tried and failed to end Kay Hutchinson's career.
More importantly, his message on this is dead right. Republicans have been dithering away while they lose at every level of government and society. It's astonishing to me that the RNC chair is running for reelection after the pasting we've taken, and his suggestion for additional beaureaucratic layers as a way back is exactly what I would expect of a party that is settling comfortably back into minority status. To illustrate the difference between the parties, just look at the way "recounts" are handled: Democrats hire recount muscle from out of state to manage the recount, and Republicans watch as their seats are stolen. See, Washington, Minnesota. Where's the RNC in all this?
We need leaders who devote resources to winning elections period. The formula is: get good candidates, oppose fundraising laws that blatantly favor the Democrats, run on the basic Republican platform, fight like hell to win, and keep our own house in order ethically. I have no interest in donating money to a party that fritters it away as this one has in the past election cycles. |
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I agree w/ Tom in re Duncan's drivel. It's all about party organization & strategy, while barely giving lip service to conservative governing principles & their implementation. It's a sample of apparachik-think. A new megaphone will do you no good if you don't have a message to proclaim with it.
I also agree that DeLay himself tended to be part of the problem rather than the solution when he was in there.
The GOP has 2 possible futures:
(1) the vehicle & home for true Buckley-Goldwater-Reagan conservatism in American politics.
(2) The 21st century's Whigs, the Democrat Lite "Me Too, But Less" useless redundant Rockefeller career politicians' social club that serves no purpose but to obstruct real conservatism & use up all the political oxygen on "bipartisan" sell-outs.
We, & Messers Duncan & DeLay, need to decide TODAY which it will be, because if the GOP continues going w/ option #2, it's time NOW to join or form another party that will stand up & champion conservatism, in time for 2012.
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go to my site and look it up. Follow it. Win. |
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Yes, Tom, this is a wonderful idea. And the person who should be in charge of it: Sarah Palin!!1! With Newt as its Director of Wonderful New(t) Ideas! Fred Thompson could be the Spokes-mumbler. And all those wonderful, loyal kids who ran the Coalition Provisional Authority could be in charge of the day-to-day activities and the finances.
Yes, it's a New Dawn for the Conservative Movement, Morning in America! Just wait until they start rolling out those new ideas. |
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By all means, let Republicans create an Action Tank, with the following as its first priorities:
1. Purging the deadwood from Party leadership that ran the Party into the ground, including the big spending, over-regulating Republican elites in Congress who decided during the Bush years that federalizing education and healthcare were top priorities.
2. Getting rid of laughable patronage appointments that turned department and cabinet heads into nationwide laughing stocks.
3. Renouncing amnesty for illegal aliens and prohibiting government benefits to illegal immigrants. That alone would stop the budget deficit threatening states with bankruptcy from government-mandated benefits for the 12-20 million illegal aliens in this country, and it would reverse the absurd pandering by Republicans to Hispanics in the delusion that by granting exemption from federal laws based on ethnicity, Republicans will get votes.
4. Re-dedicating themselves to the military in a hands-on way. All Republican elected officials and department heads would be required to perform community service by navigating through the bureaucracies that ensnare soldiers and their families for healthcare and other benefits. Come to think of it, expand this service requirement to require individual, hands-on service by these officials for ALL government bureaucracies, including all government regulations and rules they have inflicted on the populace and then walked away from.
5. Make a prerequisite for elected office and department heads a history of REAL employment. (Lawyer, lobbyist, holding another elected position and bureaucrat won’t count.)
As radical as this seems, DeLay would find Republicans coming back to the fold without the Action Tank gimmickry he proposes if some practical changes were made.
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Excellent Mr. Delay. Exactly what is needed is boots on the ground and local grass roots office holders. There are plenty of people willing and able to defeat the Liberals and Democrats. Winning the House and Senate and Presidency must wait - they are the result of a strong party not the cause thereof.
Unfortunately the moderate compromiser types in the GOP would for some reason rather see a Democrat win than a Conservative - that is the problem. |
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Get their (expletives to the max) heads out of the beltway mentality and insider groupthink. We don't need "thinktanks," we need thinkers! It is time to stop being "in the tank" with these so called experts. Is that really so hard to understand? |
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"If the GOP wants to regain what it lost they need to explain why they doubled the national debt while Bush was in office while driving the country into economic ruin. People no longer trust the Republican Party to do what is right for the country. The GOP also needs to get rid of the radical right wing portion of the party which has driven the moderate Republicans to the other side. "
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN
What we need is a pragmatist who can speak to the roots of conservative fundementals that, if properly conveyed, would win over Democratic philosophy any day of the week (or 4 years for that matter). Conservatism is not broken, it has simply been mishandled.
We'll never get back on track if we keep listening to self-serving neo-cons like Mr. Delay, who are embarassments to the party that they helped destroy. |
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Tom Delay is a scoundrel. His completely singular pursuit of the dollars to run campaigns is his only love. That is all he and the GOP hierarchy care about. Forget doing the peoples’ business. |
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Say Tom,
**How much money are you gonna get from the foreign companies signed on to build the
NAFTA SUPER HIGHWAY??
**How does it feel to sell out your own country and use eminent domain to steal people's land?
**You and George both are SCUMBAGS!! |
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Right Wing Conservatives or Evangelical Conservatives as you say are not the problem.
The problem is Globalists who have set an
agenda for America and the World.
As Dr Carrol Quigley surmised, both parties
are owned. There is not that much difference.
CFR Globalists abound in both parties.
Do away with God and we loose our country, loose our country and whats the point????? |
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So what would you expect from John McCain, the Senator who along with Senator Feingold, a Democrat, co-authored the so called Campaign Finance Reform. Along with this finance reform he gave us MoveOn.org and George Soros and God knows how many other reforms.
Saul Alinsky called it “reconciliation,” one side gets the power while the other side gets reconciled to it. All Liberal Democrats are gangsters and thugs. It’s like trying to deal with the “Hole in the Wall Gang.” Honor and trust are not words they understand. Power is the only word they know.
There is no doubt that the repeal of McCain-Feingold or Campaign Finance Reform should be the #1 goal. George Soros and his Open Society should be included and should be marked for extinction.
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Dude, this is the kind or person we need on our side - the kind of person who takes care of his own. I've had enough of the Republican Moderates who take the leftovers the democrats throw at their feet, then hide their fecklessness behind phrases like "for the good of the country."
"For the good of the country..." I'll let Government raid my district, take our money, give it to others, call us cheap and heartless and selfish then go beg for some of it back so I can get re-elected by claiming "I fought for you." This is Republicanism in the North. The Democrats take care of their own first and it's time we started defending Conservatives who do the same for us.
I am not a Texan but I know people there and Mr. Delay has a reputation for having helped many people and organizations who never gave him a dime - they just happen to be in the State and District he represented.
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Duncan is attempting to torpedo and copy what the grassroots has already created and is up and running, http://www.rebuildtheparty.com
Now, the RNC wants to copy and build a solution, based off of what the grassroots and We The People will completely embarrass the RNC with, something that actually works.
Message to RNC: Stay out of out our way. We The People will redeem our own selves being you guys are incapable of running a Kool-Aid stand.
What part of “grassroots action” and letting them build a forest fire that sweeps the nation and will sweep the Republicans back into office do you guys not understand?
Get out of our way. We run this country, not you guys.
Would you guys have stepped in front of our founding fathers and torpedoed what they were attempting too?
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The GOP has become a mirror image of the United Nations, bloated, ineffectual, and debate, debate, and more debate. |
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What the country needs is all of these perpetual politicians to be voted out of office. Next Election all incumbents should be voted out of office. Also they should be banned from any government contact for their lifetimes. We need people who actually care about America, not their wallets. |
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The GOP has no one to lead. Bush-Cheney-their history. John McCain-he can't lead himself much less the party. Mike Duncan-well 2008 speaks for him. Duncans plan for The Center for Republican Renewal is almost comical if it wasn't so sad. The answers are right in front of Mikey but he still can't see it. As for Delay, well he is history also. This party needs to get the grassroots level moving as of the day after the 2008 election. Oh we have no ideas, were stale. No Mikey and Tom, you guys are stale. The GOP has always had core beliefs, you guys just got caught up in your own hype. Fiscal responsibility, control of our borders, security of our country, individual accountability, sanctity of life, sanctity of marriage, minimal government involvement in our lives, First amendment, second amendment, "THE CONSTITUTION", OK you get the point. We need real republicans in offices from the rural towns to the white house. People who are going to actually live up to the principles of this party. Right now we need someone in the RNC who can set that example and build this party from the ground up. Another 2008 and this party just might be history. |
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What the Republicans need, according to one of the candidates for Head of the RNC, is to offend more potential voters with "Barack the Magic Negro" and "The Star Spanglish Banner."
I think maybe some actual ideas rather than just being against everything would be a good start. |
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You're assuming the GOP cares about conservtive ideas. They don't. Conservatives were not defeated by Obama. They were defeated by McCain in the GOP primaries. |
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Unless the R's rid themselves of the religious zealots who control the party, they will never again win another national election. |
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Young Lonigan writes, "There is no doubt that the repeal of McCain-Feingold or Campaign Finance Reform should be the #1 goal."
Better yet, states should close their primaries so that ONLY registered Republicans can vote. The cross-overs are the ones who saddled the oldest horse they could find for the GOP to run the race with. Democrats crossed over into states that had open primaries and laughed as they voted for McCain in large numbers.
Imagine if the GOP had Mitt Romney running when the economy started spiraling....
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Brickhouse
It is absurd that the Democrats are responsible for McCain's nomination. You may recall that the Democratic Primary itself was rather strongly contested and Democrats turned out in record numbers for their primary as a result. It is absurd to think that D's were ignoring their own battle just so they could spite the Republicans by voting for McCain. In fact, it was many nominal Rs who voted in the Democratic primary rather than their own.
As for "imagining Mitt Romney running when the economy started spiraling", yes I can imagine that quite easily. He, too, would have been pounded, maybe by even more than McCain. |
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it is very simple - START FIGHTING
We need leadership. Real tough, clear and creative leadership.
Mike Duncan lacks the creativity needed to beat the dems.
He can raise money...but that is it.
Michael Steele has the creativity and drive for a massive and complete revamp. Steele should run the party...Duncan should keep fund raising.
WE NEED:
Asyemetrial creativity
Relentless drive
High tech communication
Conservative message (remove the RINOs)
Saturate and integrate all forms of media
Sarah Palin
Courage
These are the ingredients for success.
The RNC needs to stop talking...stop "think tanking" and START FIGHTING |
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After Terry Schiavo, a needless war in Iraq, the slow-motion death of New Orleans, and the tanked economy, the American people have seen all they need to see of what the Republican Party, at its finest, had to offer. It'll be a long time before Americans can trust in, let alone believe in, the GOP. There are no good leaders in the GOP right now, because the party has been busted. All intelligent people have walked away or drifted to the other side. Seen Fox News lately?
Conservatives, limited, minimal government doesn't work. Get over it. Nice idea, but way short on reality. |
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As Margaret Thatcher once said..."the facts of life are conservative".
The current GOP leaders are borderline worthless, scared and weak (a dem fantasy come true)... but the conservative philosophy is timeless.
This country was built upon Conservative values and it is great because of conservative values.
It is Conservative valuers that allow the freedom for the stupid liberals to protest and undermine their own freedom. It is amazing to watch.
All things cycle... eventually, the GOP will get the strong Conservative leadership back in power... especially when they realize their days are numbered without real Conservative leadership, a real backbone and courage.
The best first step will be to stop the cocktail party circuit...and start fighting for what is right.
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I am RIGHT -- That's twice you've called for fighting. Good luck. Obama wants to work together, and Americans, sick to death of this "fighting" nonsense, are rallying to him like never before. The cat's one shrewd politician, and maybe, just maybe, we can be together again, one country, under God, indivisible. You go ahead and fight. I'm more interested in getting stuff done. Anybody standing in our way will get what they deserve. |
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