The American Spectator

Ran| 12.16.08 @ 6:13PM

Mr. Antle,
Jim Geraghty's dismissal of ideology may be valid under normal times, but at this time ideology and symbolism both mean a great deal. Normally that role would be the President's... but ours is AWOL.

I'd love to see a demonstrable commitment from the GOP that it's future candidates' message will be a libertarian conservative one. Steele, Blackwell amongst a few other conservatives as RNC chairman would go a long way to projecting that commitment to a very distanced conservative base. Leadership - somewhere, somehow, 'faster please'...

I have voted for Mr. Blackwell here in Ohio. I'd heartily welcome his leadership at the RNC.

Sooner Red| 12.17.08 @ 7:25AM

The GOP has one more Presidential cycle to avoid joining the Whigs on the ash heep of history. Republicans need to take advantage of their time in the political wilderness to come together as a coherent PARTY, not a big circus "tent" where we invite our opponents to move in and define us and pick our candidates. That road leads to Bush, Dole, Bush and McCain... i.e. two beat-downs and two near loses. If the Rinos love crossing the asile so much, let them cross and stay. Idealogy MATTERS. Steele or Blackwell work for me.

Bob| 12.17.08 @ 9:38AM

It's obvious that AmSpec would not publish Newt's letter to the RNC -- but here it is:

" I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.

The recent web advertisement, "Questions Remain," is a destructive distraction. Clearly, we should insist that all taped communications regarding the Senate seat should be made public. However, that should be a matter of public policy, not an excuse for political attack.

In a time when America is facing real challenges, Republicans should be working to help the incoming President succeed in meeting them, regardless of his Party.

From now until the inaugural, Republicans should be offering to help the President-elect prepare to take office.

Furthermore, once President Obama takes office, Republicans should be eager to work with him when he is right, and, when he is wrong, offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him.

This is the only way the Republican Party will become known as the "better solutions" party, not just an opposition party. And this is the only way Republicans will ever regain the trust of the voters to return to the majority.

This ad is a terrible signal to be sending about both the goals of the Republican Party in the midst of the nation's troubled economic times and about whether we have actually learned anything from the defeats of 2006 and 2008.

The RNC should pull the ad down immediately."

Newt is absolutely right on this. Reading through the blogs here just reiterates his point -- one that I've been saying over and over -- that Republicans need solutions right now, not nit picking against Obama.

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