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RNC Vice Chairman James Bopp's resolution against the bailout is a much needed first step in moving the party back to traditional fiscal conservative values. As young, college Republicans prepare themselves to race off to fight the good fight, perhaps they should take a few moments to see just where the most important fight is presently being fought in terms of preserving our Republican values.

To date I have not seen or heard one word of support or even discussion about the "Resolution" from any of the perspective RNC Chair candidates. If I am worng in this regard, I would deeply appreciate an update for the record.

If I was a young Republican wanting nothing more than to defend the party's platform, my  course would seem clear: The "Resolution" must be supported by the next RNC Chair or the party's platform is meaningless.

For those of you who are not up to date on this important party issue, I would suggest you go to "Open-Thread-On-Future-Roles-of-the-Party" and get educated BEFORE you rush out to defend what the party's leadership has thus far failed to defend.

The key to victory is first fighting the right fight.

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davidfarrar

We are supposed to be internet savvy. So let's start applying the communicative power of the internet to the issue of the RNC leadership.  If you have any suggestions on how we can use the internet to make the process of getting two co-chairs (one, male, one female) selected for the RNC a more open process, now is the time to post it here.

As for me, I am thinking there are only 168 people who can vote. Lets get a website up, preferably through the RNC, and invite them to post their thoughts, much like we are doing here. The exception is that there will only be 168 registered members who can post on the RNC forum. This web site will actually be bifurcated, with one page dedicated to the 168 RNC members and the other side, the public input, with only registered GOP participants being allowed to post on the public section. What do you think?

The Party can certainly allow the 168 RNC members to let their fellow party members in on their deliberations, why they are supporting who they are supporting and perhaps having some of their issues addressed.

Just right off the top of my head, Yahoo 360 has some very good polling functions. Two accounts can be set up there, with links to each other,  both accounts being restricted. One to just the 168 RNC members and the other to registered GOP.org members. There are a few technical details that will need to be worked out, but they shouldn't take long. This can be up and running by January 1, 2009.

What about it?  Lets put a plan together and all go over to the GOP.org site and present it to them as soon as possible. Call it our little Christmas present to the party.

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davidfarrar

Let's go about designing TNR's RNC poll another way. Who among the listed male candidates:

Saul Anuzis
Ken Blackwell
Katon Dawson
Mike Duncan
Chip Saltsman
Michael Steet

Would be best suited to run as Gov. Sarah Palin's co-chair?
 

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davidfarrar

That is really the bottom line here. It is obvious the base of the party has already chosen her as its leader, all that remains is to see just how much the party elite value its base. Ignoring Sarah Palin during it leadership selection process is doing nothing but demonistrating once again just how far out of touch the leadership is with its base. If the party fails to publically attempt to invite Gov. Palin to take a leadership postion with the party, they will have missed an excellent chance to unify the party.  If Gov. Palin declines the offer, fine. My suggestion would be to offer her an honorary Chairperson position with the party and invite her to be the MC at the gala events naming the RNC Chair. Anything the party can do to demonstrate they are not conspiring against the base, or against her, would be very beneficial to party unity at this point and into the future.

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davidfarrar

That is the key point of Hugh Hewitt's Politico's article: GOP 5.0: What next for Lincoln's party?

"The difference — a 6-point, 8 million vote difference, it turned out — was in the GOP's ability to communicate its ideals and its vision for America. The party lost its voice at precisely the moment it needed to be full throated. Gov. Sarah Palin's enormous popularity was primarily because she was unafraid to speak into the roar of disapproval of the media elite about the virtues of the classic GOP platform, including its belief in protecting unborn life and in economic liberty. As Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) noted after his blowout win — which also energized the GOP nationally — Palin’s barnstorming drew enormous crowds and allowed his runoff campaign to peak at exactly the right time."

We need an RNC Chair who above all else will be unafraid to articulate the Republican message of regainig a robust, internationally competive economy through less government -- less taxes and less restrictive government regulation -- amid the roar of disapproval from the liberal Left and the media elite. What Gov. Palin did in Georgia can be seen as a clear example of what she is capable of doing for the Republican Party on the national stage...communicate the message.

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davidfarrar

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davidfarrar

...to come to Georgia to help him win his election. He could have chosen Saul Anuzis. He could have chosen Katon Dawson . He could have chosen Chip Saltsman or Michael Steele. But he chose Sarah Palin.

When it comes time to choose the next RNC chairman, we had better make the same choice if we want to win.

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davidfarrar

Governor Sara Palin will participate in four campaign rallies across Georgia on Monday on December 1, 2008 on behalf of Sen. Saxby Chambliss runoff election. The rallies will be in Atlantia, Augusta, Macon and Savannah areas. 

When you consider posting your nominees for the RNC Chair race, I would like for you to stop and consider who Saxby Chambliss has chosen in his hour of political need -- and inwardly digest.

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davidfarrar

Well, it seems at least some one has listened to my web structure ideas. I would have to go back to my records to find out just when I first posted The National Online Party, but it has been up for well over a year now.  It seems Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty is following my precinct structure suggestion.  So it would be rather easy for the Republican Party to adopt such a web structure, if they actually intend to have a 21st Century web-structure presence.

However, considerable more coding would have to be undertaken to get the deliberative groupware and inter-party networking processes working together, but the basics are there to start collecting precinct leaders from the party's various SNSs efforts, hopefully

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 Operation Rednet  

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Even FDR's own economic team knew that his New Deal interventions had been a complete failure. Here's what FDR's Treasury Secretary, Henry Morganthau, admitted to Congress in May, 1939 . . .

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!" 

I have just run across a very good article on the relationship between deficit spending and the Great Depression at DownsizeDC, entitled "Mark Twain was right". 

It's conclusion: The government caused the Great Depression. Even Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, agrees.

Now if we can only get the government to agree as well, we just might avoid another Great Contraction.

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davidfarrar