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Re: The RNC Steps Up
As sympathetic as I am to the anti-bailout angst, I gotta wonder whether the insurgent RNC members aren't opening a big can of worms. From the Washington Times article:
Nonetheless, not all RNC members -- including some of Mr. Bopp's fellow conservatives -- are pleased with the idea of having it make policy instead of simply minding the campaign fundraising store.
Fellow RNC member Ron Nehring, chairman of the California GOP, expressed more reservations.
"We have to be careful not to confuse passing resolutions for action, or creating a situation where people interpret the lack of some resolution as an excuse for inaction on an important issue," he said.
Nehring makes a good point, and I'd add that turning the RNC into a vehicle for routine policy debate would completely change internal RNC politics; suddenly ideology would matter as much as organizational competence. I'm not sure that would make the party more effective.
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VinceP1974| 12.30.08 @ 12:37PM
The Congress is about to accelerate the destruction of our currency and the primary concern is that someone will think the GOP was inactive and didn't participate?
This is why I can't stand some people in this party.
When will Republicans learn.. THEY WILL NEVER BE GIVEN CREDIT IN THE PRESS FOR DOING ANYTHING.
You're worried about PR?? My God.. the country is about to disintegrate!
J David| 12.30.08 @ 2:42PM
So what you seem to be saying, Mr Tabin, is that there is a "competence" factor (of which the GOP is SO VERY "competent")"we the people" are going to lose out on if we start denying money to those who make promises to their constituency and then BREAK THEM as soon as they get elected-for-life? Hmmm...Not buying it!
VinceP1974| 12.30.08 @ 3:48PM
J David; what is it with folks like you and these ever absurd strident attacks?
Are you honestly trying to have us believe that politicians retreating from their promises is limited to one party?
Or incompetence ?
I really resist the dwelling in the past business... I try not have a discussion where the only thing I strive to do is point out the obvious about the past.
I find this compulsive need to Keep Score to be immature and corrosive.
So I wont say the things I could.. but I will say the issues you raise are not owned by anyone and exhibited by all.
BJC| 12.30.08 @ 7:22PM
I disagree with Mr. Tabin. Actually, Ron Nehring has an objection that lacks merit upon closer examination. What we're facing in the GOP's major failure and disconnect results from a lack of conservative leadership over the Republican Party. A useful aphorism in basic leadership courses is: "Managers concentrate on doing things right; leaders focus on doing the right things." Nehring is arguing that the RNC stick with a solely managerial role within the GOP -- ultimately siding with the view that the present course of the party is fine as is. How's that working out? James Bopp, by contrast, is contending that the RNC should step into the leadership vacuum and ensure that prominent Republicans really support the Republican policy platform positions -- truth in advertising, if you will. And BTW, Mr. Nehring would have more credibility with me if he'd ever called out California RINO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Democrat masquerading as a Republican that he in fact is.
Knome| 12.30.08 @ 9:23PM
Nehring is part of the problem. He has a gift for straddling the fence and saying absolutely nothing in the process.