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RNC CHAIR HOPEFUL SENDS MEMO TO PARTY VOTERS
The race for Republican National Committee chair is about the only exciting thing in U.S. politics right now other than “The One,” President-elect Barack Obama, choosing his disciples… err, cabinet members.
As of today, the race consists of a couple of announced candidates and a slew of folks rumored to be considering running for the job, including South Carolina’s own Katon Dawson and former Tennessee GOP chair Chip Saltsman, who ran Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign.
Although Saltsman hasn’t yet announced his candidacy, he is heavily courting the folks who will vote for the next chair on Jan. 23. The Palmetto Scoop has obtained a copy of a 10 page “Plan for Republican Victory” sent from Saltsman to the 168 members of the RNC.
I didn’t really read through the plan because it uses lots of big words like “recrimination” and has charts and graphs, but it looks like Saltsman has some good ideas. Especially the whole “investing in new technologies” stuff a la Obama, which will no doubt leave fellow blogger Wes Donehue drooling and sending Saltsman secret love notes.
The only problem I have with Saltsman’s proposal is the fact that he doesn’t once mention his uncanny resemblance to Family Guy’s Quagmire. Was he the inspiration for the character? Will he ever get to hook up with Peter Griffin’s wife? TPS is going to giggidy, giggidy get on the case.
AGAIN…you are obviously finding ways to make non-funny jokes and/or discrediting comments about other RNC potential Chair candidates. SO, I will repeat what I asked a few days ago:
Here is my issue. Someone make the case for me about why Dawson deserves this post. SC is consistently Republican. I will give you that. BUT, does our state party have ANY unity? We may be a dominate force but our Republican elected officials in the state House and Senate fight amongst each other and are so divided that they may as well be representatives of two different parties. Further, Sanford sees eye to eye with hardly none of these representatives and we constantly have a stalement on state issues. Wouldn’t it make a better case for Dawson if our state party had unified goals for current officials and our future in the state? Shouldn’t he work to first get all Republicans on the same page here is SC before we jet him off to a national post? Just having people win with an (R) behind their name is no longer going to cut it. This next RNC chair is going to have to be a leader of substance who can redefine our national agenda and ideals and unite the party. Because I have not seen Dawson’s ability to do this on a state level, I am hard pressed to advocate him on a national level.
Fogle or anyone, please, tell me why I’m wrong.
Dawson runs a small club. It has nothing to do with governing SC…so why do we care?
It is like a nerd group in HS…it just does not affect us, or the government. It runs of the those in the club…and really just a few of them.
From Saltsman’s proposal:
“Republican resurgence must begin with a return to our longstanding ideals of principled
conservatism and fiscal responsibility.”
Sounds good so far, except instead detailing this resurgence he goes on to badmouth democrats and liken them to Russians. I already don’t like them along with anyone else reading this memo. Stick to the message.
He doesn’t cite a source for the exit polls which claim America is a center-right country.
An endorsment of http://rebuildtheparty.com/ and talk about using Internet resources. Well you know there was one Republican which managed to harness the internet quite effectively during the primaries; shunning that resource is pretty stupid.
“… and we must be willing to value openness and innovation as much as
message control.” Fail. Fail fail fail fail! This demonstrates Saltsman has no real understanding of the internet beyond “oh that’s that stuff that obama used.” The Internet is all openness and innovation and zero message control. Message control is gone forever. You can’t field a bad candidate and try to “message control” that he’s actually a good candidate anymore; those days are over. The only option the RNC has now is to field good candidates and only after that will the independent bloggers will go along with it.
Talk about the hispanic vote? Yeah it’s an enourmous problem for the Republican party and I doubt any strategy exists to fix it. You can’t outreach to hispanics without pissing off the anti-immigration half of the conservative base.
Yough voters? I really want to be a Republican, but in exchange I want some changes. I’d love to be a Republican but then the candidates open their mouths and something stupid comes out.
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Meh. It was decent; you can tell the guy put some thought into it, which is more than I can say about Dawson. The problem with the Republican party is the message and the disconnect between the message and what they actually do when they use power. Fix those two things and then they stand a chance of regaining lost ground
The source of GOP money dried up so that would make this job harder…..
The Way of Senator Bill Frist is not the path to a successful future for our Party. Saltsman is talented, a good guy, and the dead-wrong choice for RNC.