I heard about this website on Fox News and decided to check it out. Seems like the Republican party has decided to regroup and listen to the common man. The RNC has created this website to take ideas from everyone - in order to learn from mistakes made during the election to where the GOP should go in the 21st century and everything in between.
I have signed up for an account in order to submit ideas. I am really excited about this website, as it appears maybe the Republican party will take this ideas and do something to resurrect our GOP.
Here's the welcome email I received once I signed up:
Welcome to our newest grassroots Web site, Republican For A Reason!
As we as a Party regroup after our near miss in the presidential election, we must reflect on what our Party has done well and what we can improve moving forward.
The Republican Party has always been the party of reason and hope, and I strongly believe we will continue in this tradition as we work to the future.
I thank everyone who volunteered their time, money, and energy to elect John McCain and Sarah Palin. It was a ground-breaking year for the Party on a number of issues and those milestones would not have been met without your tireless efforts.
Moving forward, you have the opportunity to reflect on the reasons why you are a Republican right here. I look forward to your input and your ideas.
Here's the link for the website:
Link: http://www.RepublicanForAReason.com
Here's the first idea I submitted to the website, under the GOP in the 21st century:
One thing I noticed about Obama was that he was all over the web, including the social networking sites and used sites such as Twitter. McCain made a major mistake by not tapping into these resources, and for the most part, these resources are low cost. McCain was on MySpace - big deal. He needed to be on ALL the social networking sites and to be using all the tools that the younger crowds use to communicate.
I watched as aides communicated back and forth on their Blackberrys and other devices. I am certain they were texting and using services like Twitter. So why didn't anyone think to suggest this to McCain? Or did he simply shoot them down?
The Republican party MUST use the digital tools of the 21st century in order to reach the younger voters. Kids are born knowing how to use these devices. Republicans already know how to reach the older crowd and the religious base. Conservatives now must reach the younger crowd and the middle aged crowd with children.
Won't you Conservatives join me? Your input would be greatly appreciated. Please share the ideas you submit here. I would be very interested!
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I sure hope they do something good.
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You might find this interesting: Harold Meyerson
And from conservative columnist Kathleen Parker
They fell for the spend more because we are in power syndrome just like the Dems they rightly disparage. Unless they change the leaders and bring in people like Sen DeMint (SC), Reps Paul TX), Shadegg (AZ), or Flake (AZ) they will remain Dems light and the public will see little difference in them.
If we have to have only a two party system, it would be great if the American people had a real choice. Right now the Repubs are just as big as spenders, just as big as liars, and just as dedicated to grabbing power as they Dems. The only thing is the Dems give away more of what we don't have anymore to buy the votes and are even louder in bragging about it. Americans wanted change and are about split evenly on what that is to be. Few Repubs are offering much of anything and those that do are being ignored. If those few voices in the wilderness are ignored, it will be later than the next midterm before Repubs have enough seats to do much more than whine from the sidelines.
It's so hard to help others.
The confusion for me is that many Republicans abandoned the Republican party and voted for Democratic candidates. My assumption is that the turn coat Republicans thought Republican Party had abandoned the Republican Party platform (in the historic sense) in favor of the ultra conservative agenda. Now many Conservative Republicans are asserting that the Republican Party lost support because they were not conservative enough.
Let that sink in. The Republicans suffered the biggest loss in years and they think the reason is that they have been too liberal and yet those who abandoned the Republican Party did so, in part, because the party was leaning too far to the right and because of the Republican Party's abandonment of its core principals.
The question of blame for the Republican losses has been shifted from the tangible to the intangible of "we must not be conservative enough".
Jeff Jacoby states the obvious in his article "The Republican Debacle" (townhall.com Nov 13, 2008)
"Voters were fed up with Republicans, and they had every reason to be. In 1994, the GOP swept to power on its "Contract with America" -- a principled platform of fiscal restraint, smaller government, individual responsibility, and cleaner politics. A dozen years later, the contract forgotten, the GOP had become an embarrassment -- a party of soaring federal budgets, gluttonous farm and highway bills, and earmarks from here to eternity. Instead of permanent tax relief and Social Security reform, the Republicans delivered a vast new drug entitlement and the McCain-Feingold crackdown on political expression. Worst of all, the party that had held itself out as the antidote to Democratic corruption now reeked of its own scandals. Week by week, the parade of sleazy Republicans seemed to lengthen -- Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, Duke Cunningham. Voters finally had enough. Exit polls nationwide found that it was corruption and scandal, far more than the unpopular war in Iraq, that voters had in mind on election day."
It seems to me the best policy for the Republican Party would be to include rather than reject the more moderate mindset as they re-evaluate the real Republican Party platform rather than expand the more conservative agenda. It depends upon whether the Republican Party wants to exist as a unit or split into two or more new parties or simply collapse under the weight of the self vested interests of the extreme right.
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There is a similar thing going on here on a local level. They meet every 2 weeks and talk about conservatism and are planning on paving a road to the future.
I haven't gone but I hear good things about them.
I'll check out the website.
I will also check the website, but I have to say one thing that, Palin did not loose the election for McCain, McCain lost the election for McCain.
I think a larger presence on the net would have helped but I don't think its the sole reason he lost.
But, alas, that would be against their very nature. When the entire purpose of your Party's existence is to render impotent the principles of individualism, liberty, and justice, in order to neutralize any potential intellectual/ideological resistance to absolute state power, then I guess being unprincipled and hypocritical are actually the essential part of the job description.
Just commenting you back, thanking you for a comment you made on one of my articles or pics! I always pay back the comments (even if it's a bit late!)
Thank you for the info.