Reform Republicans United

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An online community where people of all shades of Republican can come and offer their ideas, engage with each other, and reignite the flame that our forbearers nurtured.

Website: http://reformgop.ning.com/
Location: New York City
Members: 30
Latest Activity: Sep 19

Statement of Purpose – Reform Republicans

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http://reformgop.ning.com/
http://www.ktmcfarland.com/

The Republican Party, both nationally and in the New York state, has fractured. The coalition President Reagan built - of fiscal conservatives, pragmatic national security hawks, and social conservatives – is no more. In the last decade the Republican Party has abandoned limited but effective government in favor of big government programs and less oversight. It has engaged in ambitious undertakings overseas but often without allocating the means or plans necessary to achieve them. It has tarnished the Republican reputation for competence and integrity by allowing corporate kleptocracy and influence peddlars to infect its ranks. Clearly, we have lost our way, and the voters have responded accordingly.

Yet, while the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan may be down and out, it is not dead and buried. Our core beliefs – of personal choice, individual accountability, self-reliance, fiscal responsibility and ethical government - are still sound. We need to reconnect with them. But we also must recognize it is not enough to dust off our old policies to solve the problems of a new era. It is not enough to just re-brand the Republican Party, we must reform and redefine it. We must do what Lincoln and Roosevelt and Reagan before us did – reconnect with our principles and make them relevant to today’s and tomorrow’s problems – not yesterday’s. We must do so by reaching out to all parts of our society – to women, young people, Hispanics, Asians, African-Americans, Eastern Europeans, legal immigrants – and not merely tolerate their presence but actively encourage their participation. We must also tolerate within our ranks differences of opinion on many issues. This does not lessen their importance - to some and in some regions they are critical. But if we insist on dozens of litmus tests for being a Republican, we will never again be a national party with appeal to a broad range of Americans.

The goal of the Reform Republican movement is to offer a place where we can debate the issues. Our aim is to start by creating an online community. We will build upon that base to encourage candidates for party and public office, first for local and state positions, ultimately for national office. We offer an online community where people of all shades of Republican can come and offer their ideas, engage with each other, and reignite the flame that our forbearers nurtured.

We welcome Conservatives, Independents, lapsed Republicans, Progressives, disenchanted Democrats, flat taxers, balanced budgeters, neo-cons, paleo-cons, pro-choicers and pro-lifers. We do not presume to dictate a new Republican manifesto out of whole cloth. We do aim to offer the threads that can be knit together into a new coalition by a new generation of leaders. Out of necessity, past political movements have often been driven from the top down. Networking technology and new media make it possible for the political movements of the future to grow from the grassroots up.

Join with us, offer your ideas, critique the thoughts of others, help us find a way to make our core beliefs relevant again. It is a daunting task, but an exciting one. It is a once in a generation opportunity to create a new political movement suited for the solving the problems of today using the technology of tomorrow. If we succeed, we will transform not only our Party, but help lead our country out of difficult times so that we can, once more, say it is Morning in America.

Discussion Forum

T.E.A. Party Schedules

Started by Neal C White Mar 31.

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Comment by Barbara Eaves on April 29, 2009 at 1:14am: We all need to old on to each other beacuse we have a hard road ahead of us.

Comment by gabe on March 31, 2009 at 6:09pm: April 15th, the day we as Americans make our voices heard.

Comment by Nasir Muhammad on March 31, 2009 at 11:52am: I run the Republican-28 meetup; if you send your e-mail address to info@nasirmuhammadconsulting.com, I will send you an invitation, you can take a look at the group and if you find it useful then join us.

Comment by Nasir Muhammad on March 31, 2009 at 11:22am: I organize http://republican-28meetup.com a community of NYC Republicans.
My membership has participated in Tea Parties within the tri-state area.
If you join, your membership will extend the Republican network and possibily recruit interested, enthusiastic participants.

Comment by Irene Kim Asbury on March 31, 2009 at 11:04am: Hear hear, Vanessa!

Comment by Donald E. Scoggins on March 31, 2009 at 1:33am: A great idea, also get folks to join onto Republican for Black Empowerment's network. http://blackgop.ning.com

Comment by Marc Alvarez on March 31, 2009 at 12:43am: Fox News Launches a Huffpo for the Right .. About Freaking Time!!!

http://www.thefoxnation.com/

It's a gaping hole in the market, and Fox News is seeking to fill it with The Fox Nation, a news-and-commentary site that launched today. ...

Comment by Neal C White on March 30, 2009 at 11:24am: The Georgia Republican Party also needs similar reform as mentioned in the reform article. Most of the problem lies in the past standard of control by the old timers who have for years ruled the Party. Many of them are not current with the modern technology and do not seem to have an interest in learning.

However, this year several County Republican Parties have elected brand new slates of officers and for the most part they tend to be younger more technological aware Republicans who will make a big difference in the Party. I look forward to this group discussion of our problems. I suspect that the same problems existing in Georgia can be found in many other states.

It is crucial that Republican state parties reform and work hard to bring new citizens on board by educating the population about our values. We also have to elect Republicans who follow those core values and not vote as they so often have against the Constitution and the desires of the Party Members. The solution to that is to vote out those Republicans who apparently believe in large government and control of the people. That means if we have to work against our elected official in our state or district then we need to get to the task.

This group discussion may be the best thing that will have happened for the future of our Nation.