The NRCC and "Rediscover Your Party"
How do Congressional Republicans spread their message?
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[NOTE: The title had previously indicated that this story dealt with the NRSC. This story is about the Congressional Committee (NRCC), not the Senatorial Committee.]
How do Republicans in Congress get the word out?
Josh Shultz, the New Media director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), sat down with some Republican members of Congress -- NRCC Chairman Tom Cole (Oklahoma), Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio), Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Missouri), Representative Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), Representative Kevin McCarthy (California), Representative Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Representative Patrick McHenry (North Carolina), Representative Mike Pence (Indiana) and Representative Candice Miller (Michigan) – to have them address why Democrats are wrong for America and more importantly, what Republicans stand for and what they are doing to reshape America.
The first installment of Rediscover Your Party features Boehner and Blunt discussing Iraq and why it is so important to defeat al Qaeda there.
This is a look at one way House Republicans are airing their message via the New Media:
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They would use my money to help Martinez and Specter and other people who I would not wipe my dirty shoes on....straight to the conservative candidates period.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
Good grief, the Dream Act, a major chunk of Amnesty legislation is back, being snuck in the back door attached to the Defense Authorization Bill. Where is the outcry?
To arms! To arms!
Even if Martinez and Specter are in the Senate, not the House, it simply creates more distrust by Republicans for Republicans. Let's make some noise. Sorry to join the threadjack but I don't worry about changing the oil in my car when my house is on fire.
How to connect with voters. How to respect their concerns. How to get them to work, donate and vote. The whole GOP and all its fundraising groups should be on this same page.
The Dems have serious splintering in their party over the war. The GOP needs to come together and see how the national security issue is more broad and complex than Iraq, Afghanistan, FISA and the GWOT. An AG like Ted Olson would be a great advocate for the legal means that the country needs to fight the GWOT. But the House doesn't vote on him, the Senate does.
As long as the NR*C are willing to meddle in primaries, they can get lost.
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Reality: Thompson/Romney Dream: Santorum/Watts.
The individuals in states and through their donations will figure out the candidates. The NR*C throws away our money attacking other Republicans. That worked out great for you in Rhode Island didn't it.
Now, I'm not saying that Laffey would have won, but I bet Jim Talent could have used a few extra million dollars and if he'd gotten them, we'd probably be sitting on a lot more filled judgeships right now.
I think he was a victim of the Iraq war, primarily. Missouri is slowly turning into another Illinois - the metro areas of St. Louis, KC and Springfield have almost totally trumped the rural vote. While Talent again won the rural vote, the margins were nowhere what they used to be. Spending a lot on advertising in the metro area TV and newspapers probably wouldn't have solved that issue.
This article provides a rather interesting perspective on the election results. While Eric Mink is a blithering idiot of an ultra-left radical twit, that article is probably as close to truth as you'll find. He quotes a post-election survey:
Opinion surveys conducted throughout the fall by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the non-partisan Center for Rural Strategies pointed to a substantial percentage of rural voters shifting away from Republicans in competitive House and Senate races and toward Democrats as Election Day approached.
Why? According to those surveys, 73 percent of rural voters personally knew someone who was serving in Iraq, and 62 percent said they believed that any benefits of an economic recovery were going mainly to wealthy people. Both issues helped drive the shift in rural voting.
In Missouri, for example, Democratic and Republican strategists alike
attributed McCaskill's Senate-race victory to the votes she amassed in the state's rural and small-town counties. Although Talent outscored her in those counties, his margins were smaller than Republican margins in past elections. As a result, the operatives told Post-Dispatch political columnist Jo Mannies, McCaskill could accumulate winning margins in the cities and suburbs of St. Louis and Kansas City that pushed her to victory statewide. "That was exactly what our goal was," McCaskill told reporters after the election.
I think that's a pretty accurate assessment of what happened. I have a number of relatives in very small rural MO towns, and it rings true, from what I've heard. For a Republican candidate to win state-wide, the rural vote has to be ultra-strong. In 2006, it wasn't. The war was fatal for Talent, both in metro and rural areas.
...when they see me they'll say, "There goes Loren Wallace,
the greatest thing to ever climb into a race car."
You can find the entire article here
...when they see me they'll say, "There goes Loren Wallace,
the greatest thing to ever climb into a race car."
Now that's something I'd like to see (well, that and a spine)
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Two thirds of the world is covered by water,
the other third is covered by Champ Bailey.
I hope they plan on doing a series of these, on things like ethics, and pork as well. But then again, I'm not sure the current crowd in the Congress would be on board with those.
With more amnesty bills.
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The DREAM Act giving illegal alien students amnesty and educational benefits, as is Agjobs (which will be attached to the farm bill, and another bill increasing the number of visas for other work categories (H1-B and H2-B), too. Durbin is sponsoring the DREAM Act, but John Cornyn (R-TX) is pushing the H-visa bill.
Did the GOP not learn that the conservative wing of the GOP does not support these measures?
National security includes securing and controlling your borders.