The GOP & the Mainstream Media: It’s Time To Declare War
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | September 13th at 06:00 PM |
The continued fecklessness of the GOP leadership and brain trust in continuing to treat blatantly partisan actors and the news outlets they operate as if they’re the disinterested, non-partisan, dispassionate, objective disseminators of news and fact that they so laughably claim to be has to end. The flagship news outlet of the American media is the New York Times. This is the same New York | Read More »
Rick Perry: The Problem …
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | October 7th at 01:30 PM |
Not even Rick Perry’s most passionate supporters can deny that his performance in the last three debates were anything but triumphs – and even if they refuse to admit it, the entire world is seeing it in the polls. The fact of the matter is that he got progressively worse during each debate and from one debate to the next. Frankly, he needs to get | Read More »
The Democrats’ Appropriate New Logo
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | September 20th at 08:30 AM |
I’ve designed a logo here and there (for friends and family) and one thing I’ve always kept in mind in that line is the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle. In other words, “less is more” – the less complicated, the easier it is to remember, the better for the brand and for the customer. But sometimes less is just less. Take the Democrats’ (please!) | Read More »
Left & David Frum (BIRM): If Bill Doesn’t Work, Blame GOP!
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | March 24th at 08:04 AM |
As everyone knows, liberals are far from fans of accountability, responsibility, etc. or any other concept that suggests being held to account for their words and actions. A few days ago, Thomas Frank (of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” fame) writing in his WSJ Tilting Yard column was obviously in a state of high dudgeon at the Texas State Board of Education’s stipulation that High | Read More »
On Purity Tests And The Republican Party …
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | January 25th at 02:00 AM |
The effort by ten Conservative members of the Republican National Committee (led by Jim Bopp Jnr. of Indiana) to introduce a resolution at the RNC’s Winter Meeting this month that would have forced all Republican candidates for Federal office to sign off on at least eight (or seven) out of the ten issue positions in the resolution or face having the RNC withhold its funds | Read More »
Let’s Not Get Cocky.
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | January 6th at 06:32 AM |
Undoubtedly, yesterday was a good day. But that said, let’s not let that go to our heads and make us complacent. There’s a lot of hard work to be done – NOTE: from now until 01/19, every day is Scott Brown day: donate and volunteer – and we need to realize that there are still ten whole months left before November 2. A lot of | Read More »
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The Precinct Committeeman Project
SD | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI | WY
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | December 22nd at 11:01 AM |
Read on the Committeeman Project here. Visit the Precinct Project here. The following is a listing of all the counties – boroughs [AK] and Parrishes [LA] – in the United States (NM ? SC) with the number of electoral precincts as on record last year and their populations as estimated in 2009 by the Census Bureau, arranged by state. The beginning of any project is | Read More »
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The Precinct Committeeman Project
NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | December 22nd at 10:56 AM |
Read on the Committeeman Project here. Visit the Precinct Project here. The following is a listing of all the counties – boroughs [AK] and Parrishes [LA] – in the United States (NM ? SC) with the number of electoral precincts as on record last year and their populations as estimated in 2009 by the Census Bureau, arranged by state. The beginning of any project is | Read More »
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The Precinct Committeeman Project
HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MD
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | December 22nd at 10:23 AM |
Read on the Committeeman Project here. Visit the Precinct Project here. The following is a listing of all the counties – boroughs [AK] and Parrishes [LA] – in the United States (HI ? MD) with the number of electoral precincts as on record last year and their populations as estimated in 2009 by the Census Bureau, arranged by state. The beginning of any project is | Read More »
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Advice for a “moderate” Republican who voted Obama over McCain.
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | May 19th at 07:38 AM |
This is in response to gsy987 here, complaining that the GOP needs to adjust itself to make “moderates” more comfortable. Of course, his advice, like that of David Frum, Rick Moran, David Brooks, etc. is that we jettison social conservatives and demand less loyalty of “moderates” toward the party. My father here is exhibit A right now in everything that is wrong with the Republican | Read More »
The Committeeman Project: Alabama → Arkansas
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | May 14th at 02:20 PM |
Update (05/14/2009): A little change; I’ve decided to concentrate the number of precincts per county first and the number of currently serving Committeemen in each county before drilling down to the precinct level. What is the Committeeman Project? Read all about it here. Achance’s comment here neatly captures one of the whys of what we’re doing; returning control of the GOP back to the base | Read More »
Rebuilding the GOP: The Committeeman Project
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | May 5th at 07:00 AM |
I firmly believe today that former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s Conservative Resurgence Plan was the best thing to come out of the race for the RNC Chairmanship earlier this year. With its focus on precinct-level organization, it not only provided the best blueprint for rebuilding the Party in locales where it has completely collapsed but also the often neglected aspect of strengthening it | Read More »
My Beef With Michael Steele
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | March 19th at 06:30 AM |
Who is your GOP precinct committeeman? Your GOP county chairman? Your county’s representative(s) on the state’s central committee? What if you’re looking for any local upcoming Republican Party events in your county or district? What if you want to host one such event yourself? What if you want to organize with other Republicans in your locale in support of a reform-minded conservative Republican running for | Read More »
Focusing so much on Obama and Ayers instead of Obama and Fannie Mae CEOs Johnson/Raines is a big mistake.
By: Martin Knight (Diary) | October 8th at 04:50 AM |
The McCain Campaign and the GOP should be pounding Obama on both associations, but considering the economic turmoil is what is at the top of the headlines, Obama’s connections with Fannie Mae CEOs Johnson and Raines should be receiving a hell of a lot more attention. What’s more, the Ayers issue does nothing for the races down the ballot. The Democrats own this crisis – | Read More »