Rebuild the Party update
Posted by Austin on November 20, 2008
From an email sent by RebuildTheParty.com:
Watch for our new site to go up in the next couple of days. The next version will include a full list of endorsees, self-organizing and networking features and a scorecard to highlight responses to the plan by potential candidates for RNC Chairman. And we’ll create a space for highlighting the best solutions from our ideas site on how to modernize the way we run and win campaigns.
Many have expressed strong interest in devoting time and resources to rebuilding the party. We’ve heard you. In addition to better tools for self-organizing, we’ll be rolling out more specific opportunities to channel your enthusiasm in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Matt Collins said
Unfortunately the problem is NOT strategy. The problem is the message, the platform, and the policy of our party. We are losing elections because the party has lost its way. The fact that the Libertarians had their second best year ever, the fact that the Libertarian Party cost McCain a win in NC, and that the LP may have cost the Georgia Congressman his seat, should be an indicator that conservatives are going elsewhere or just sitting out.
Running marginal/moderate/liberal candidates is NOT a winning strategy and neither is having a big-government platform. Reorganizing, restructuring, and restrategizing is NOT going to attract the base back to the party. Returning the party to its roots is the only thing that can do that. Small and limited government, tax AND spending cuts across the board, sound fiscal policy, balanced budgets, noninterventionist foreign policy, individual liberties, and a return to obeying the Constitution, is the only thing that will bring voters back into the GOP.
If the party does not return to these basic ideas, then we will continue to lose elections.