2010 Republicans

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This "Group" is dedicated to developing a competitive, 21st century platform upon which Republican incumbents and candidates can run for office.

Location: USA
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Latest Activity: Sep 19

2010 Republicans - A Republican Platform For The Path to Victory in 2010!

The 2008 elction cycle was devastating to the GOP. Unless change occurs, the GOP will remain a regionalized and marginalized party losing market share in huge swaths of the American electorate and incapable of winning national elections.

So what do we do? First, we eliminate checklists and litmus tests and focus on broad principles, not heavy-handed prescriptions. Free trade. Strong defense – at home and abroad. Government as small as is practicable in these times. Economic, education and energy policies that promote growth, energy independence and a competitive agenda that will allow businesses to grow and compete, not be protected by artificial barriers.

As a starting point, Jim McGrody, Publisher and Editor of Plaintalk from the Texas Hill Country - It's My Party Too! has developed a first-version platform statement that will become the basis upon which future Republican incumbents and candidates can run their 2010 political campaigns. Click here to view the current version of the platform..

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What are your thoughts on the 2010 Republicans Platform Statement? 7 Replies

Started by Jim McGrody. Last reply by Michael Brennan Feb 2.

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Comment by Peter Farnham on February 9, 2009 at 10:33pm: So Michael, what do you think of Mike Steele as RNC chair? I hear he's cleaning house over there, probably a good thing. That he's feared is indicated by the fact that people are already trying to smear him.

Comment by Michael Brennan on February 9, 2009 at 10:16pm: Peter, the group is out to conform the GOP to their fringe element and call themselves the only true constitutional conservatives on this site. They usually frequent C4L sites pretending to be Ron Paul supporters but have shown a propensity for liberal agendas, liberal blog evidence, anti-semetism and just outright lack of tact and decency at times. it is a shame, true Ron Paul supporters are no where near what these few in here act like.

Comment by Peter Farnham on January 24, 2009 at 7:54am: I don't think it's accurate to call John McCain a liberal. A centrist, maybe. I supported McCain in the last election and I'm not a liberal and I don't think he is either. I also don't think any of the other GOP candidates would have done as well against Obama. I'm not sure who the "group of people supplanting GOP leadership with their own hand pick people right here on the site" are, though. I'm kind of new at internal GOP politics. If you'd care to contact me privately on this, please do. And, good luck with your run for political office in PA. Hope you do well. Keep us posted. Cheers!

Comment by Michael Brennan on January 23, 2009 at 11:55pm: I found that there is a group of people supplanting GOP leadership with their own hand pick people right here on the site, I am not syre this is good since most of those people follwed a candidate who fared worse in the ratings than the current liberal who ran for us in 2008. I think WE need to remove the liberals and those I just mentioned from leadership or the GOP is dead.

Comment by Whitehorse (Robin Ray) on January 18, 2009 at 11:03pm: It comes as a shock to some, however I believe that a vibrant 2 party system is very good & is much more preferable to the multi-party parlimentary systems. It's much more stable & in practice gives more power to the individual voter. In multi-party systems, the party "bosses" wield their votes in bloc form, & the individual representative has to vote how he or she is told or else they're out.

Bipartisanship or non-partisanship is good, however it takes 2 parties willing to be bipartisan to work. What we've seen is that the Democrats are not interested in bipartisanship unless it's a Republican switching sides to support the Democrat initiative. The Dems have had success from scorched earth policy, opposing everything (until the vote is taken, then trying to move on). This success has hinged on Republican weakness much more than Democrat strength. In the last four years especially, Republicans have been trying to balance on 2 legs of a stool when they really need 3 or 4 legs. Abandoning fiscally responsible economics & limted (efficient) government has weakened the Republicans in office & leadership; getting those stool legs back will strengthen the party.

Comment by Jim McGrody on January 18, 2009 at 9:46am: I have added a new paragraph to the "2010 Republican" platform statement. Check it out below.

Bipartisanship

A "2010 Republican" accepts that American politics is structured around a two-party system with an occasional emergence of a third-party. And, that the American body-politic is, for the moment, approximately evenly divided between the two parties.

A "2010 Republican" recognizes that "elections count" and that our two-party system produces majority and minority parties in any given legislative body. Such bodies operate under constitutionally rigorous rules, regulations and parliamentary procedures that provide leadership status and legislative privileges to the majority party while simultaneously protecting the rights of the minority party.

To insure bipartisanship behavior such rules, regulations and procedures should remain consistent irrespective of the political churning of majority and minority status resulting from election outcomes. In this context, nothing is more apt than the "Golden Rule".

You can view the revised statement in its entirety by clicking here.