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Who Are The NRSC? Why Do They Back Liberal Republicans?

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  September 8th, 2010 at 12:00 PM  | 

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Yesterday, I wrote about establishment Republicans and their apparent opposition to all things Tea Party. Just who the heck are these people?

John Cornyn

We have just had a key election in Alaska. Incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski went down in defeat to Joe Miller in the Senate primary. Joe Miller was the Conservative ‘Tea Party’ candidate. The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee flew to Alaska to aid Lisa Murkowski with the primary. John Cornyn (R), Junior Senator from Texas, had said that his committee will observe strict neutrality.

According to Miller’s campaign there are still national operatives in the state, and they suspected an effort to sway the election results in favor of Murkowski. There were still some 1,500 absentee votes yet to be counted.

According to Tea Party activists in Cornyn’s home state of Texas, protests were held at all of Cornyn’s offices to make it clear that they did not want the GOP or the NRSC interfering with Alaska’s primary race. There has been a pattern of interference, back-room deals and underhanded tactics where Conservative Patriots and their candidates have been concerned.

The people are speaking their choices. There is a Conservative tsunami just over the horizon. If the RNC and the NRSC think that we will stand still for more of what we got from them when they were last in power, they have another think a- comin’.

The National Republican Party has been an abject failure. We need only to look around us to see the result of that. It was the irresponsible actions of the (then) majority party under George Bush that are directly responsible for Barack Hussein Obama being in office.

There are more primaries coming up soon. Delaware’s Republican primary is on Sept 14. The Tea Party Express has endorsed strong Conservative Christine O’Donnell over US Representative Mike Castle, the choice of the RNC and NRSC. It’s like this folks… Mike Castle is one of the biggest RINOs in Washington. This dude has been in virtual lockstep with Barack Obama’s agenda from the beginning. He needs to be defeated and it looks very much like he will be.

Message to the RNC. Keep it up and you’ll see the destruction of your party. You’re under as much scrutiny as the DeMarxists are. You worked very hard to lose our trust. Now you’re going to have to work much harder to get it back. Backing RINOs isn’t a very good start.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

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  • longwalker

    have been “out of step” with Republican voters since the mid-sixties. I will not give any money to these organizations under any circumstances. Give directly to the candidates that appeal to you but stiff these committees. Giving them money is like giving alcohol to a drunk and expecting it will make the drunk sober. They are the last remnants of the old Rockerfeller wing of the party and the “white shoe” crowd that preceeded them.

    • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

      (I realize you probably already know all that follows; I’m posting it for the benefit of people who may be new to Redstate.)

      Registering to vote as a Republican, and actually being IN the Party, are two different things. Registering for a party means checking a box on a form; becoming a MEMBER of a party means doing more. In Arizona, for example, to become a “card carrying member” of the Republican Party means getting on the primary ballot. Takes no more than 10 signatures from registered Republicans or independents in your precinct.

      About half of these “card carrying member” slots in the Party, on average, in every State, are VACANT. Over two-thirds of them were vacant in 2008. The precinct committeemen, and ONLY the precinct committeement (called ward captain in some states — every state has its own system and terminology) elect the delegates to the RNC.

      Want a more conservative RNC chairman and staff? Then get more conservatives INTO the Party. It’s a pure numbers game, and not enough conservatives have been playing it.

      Here’s an explanation about HOW to change the RNC (it involves more than just shouting at it from the bleachers, which also doesn’t work on the players at a football game):

      http://www.redstate.com/aceintx/2010/05/23/when-given-an-opportunity-to-speak-to-first-principles-steele-throws-rand-paul-under-the-bus/#comment-2108

      I’ve explained some of the things conservatives can achieve if they get into the real ball game of politics — party politics — here:

      http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2010/07/02/why-conservatives-need-to-be-in-the-party/

      Bottom line: party politics is like a ball game. The real ball game of politics is played inside the two major political parties. Only the players actually play the game, and they need to read the rules and know them. The ball players are the precinct committeemen. The rules are the rules and bylaws of the local, county, state and national Party committees.

      If you’re a conservative Republican, I hope you’ll get into the ball game where you live.

      For Liberty,
      ColdWarrior, PC (that

  • reaganauh2o

    new crop of real Ronald Reagan red meat eating conservatives are sworn in. After being creamed in November, the only satisfaction the dems are going to lust for is to watch the country clubbers shun the ‘undesirables’ moving in.

    I’m praying that principled leadership will prevail and there will be unity of purpose. There will never be another Reagan, but in times like these, a leader not readily apparent to us now can rise to the occasion and inspire purpose that can transcend egos.

    • acat

      Remember, at least some of the folk we now call RINOs rode into town with Newt’s posse …

      Mew

      • reaganauh2o

        a pretty nice hot tub, that’s when the transformation occurs. Here in WA, the guy that unseated speaker of the house, Tom Foley, in 94 (something unseen since the civil war era) ran on term limits…part of Newt’s contract with America. Mr. George Nethercutt decided to run again after his self proposed term limit and showed us all we needed to know about him.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    I’m not sure what can be done about the NRSC or NRCC, at least from the standpoint of rank-and-file grassroots Americans.

    But take over your local empty GOP Precinct Chairman slot – about 2/3 of them are open. As a conservative, vote for fellow conservatives into County and State slots in the Republican Party. And those people vote for the 169 idiots who currently make up the actual RNC that votes for RNC chairmanship.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    I’m not sure what can be done about the NRSC or NRCC, at least from the standpoint of rank-and-file grassroots Americans.

    But take over your local empty GOP Precinct Chairman slot – about 2/3 of them are open. As a conservative, vote for fellow conservatives into County and State slots in the Republican Party. And those people vote for the 169 idiots who currently make up the actual RNC that votes for RNC chairmanship.

    • E Pluribus Unum

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