Posted by
Ralph Reagan on Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:19:31 AM
I've only met Mike Duncan out of those running. Frankly he was so exhausted when I saw him I couldn't read him at all. But for what it is worth he was exhausted during the presidential campaign which I consider postive.
Of the candidates running none of them are likely to enact reforms that we need in the Party.
What are those reforms?
1. We need to close the primaries everywhere and never get stuck with a candidate like McCain ever again. McCain was chosen by so called "moderates", unafiliateds, and crossover democrats never again do we need to be encumbered by a "mixed multitude" speaking for honest to goodness Republicans. Since Richard Nixon our only victories have been while running a "Southern Strategy". McCain's "Northern Strategy" of pandering to New Hampshire did not win.
2. There needs to be a penalty to those states who continually lose their states to the demos in the fall. Every State who has not voted for a Republican for 20 years must lose a seat on the RNC and each election after that they lose another seat until they have only 1 vote unless they reverse the trend then gaining a seat for each victory until they return to full strength.
The bottom line has always been who is going to get out and do the work in the precincts?
IN the next election each County Party should get $10,000 to pay for each County Party to man the polls as much as Obama's folks got. None of the "volunteers" of his in our county were actually "volunteers" but were paid $10 an hour! (Money flowed like water from the DNC to our opposition at the county level)
Sadly most of the folks running for the RNC Chair come from states who continually lose to the demos! I say "physician heal thyself!"