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    Reince Priebus Is New RNC Chair...

    I hope the Republican Liberty Caucus is wrong folks....

    http://www.rlc.org/2011/01/06/write-your-rnc-member/

    Who can stop him? The grassroots, that’s who. Here are some reasons to oppose Mr. Priebus. Below you will also find a sample letter, RNC Contact Information, and related links of interest.

    1) The election results in Wisconsin had little to do with Reince Priebus. Wisconsin’s economy suffered under a long period of Democratic control. Voters — led by the 60+ Tea Party groups in the state — were ready for a change. Priebus happened to be in the right place at the right time. Check the 2008 election results in Wisconsin and you’ll see why Priebus had little to do with the 2010 results.

    2) Mr. Priebus is not loyal to anyone except Mr. Priebus (and Paul Ryan). This is evidenced by the fact that Michael Steele appointed Mr. Priebus to an important, high-profile post in the RNC, yet Mr. Priebus repaid his friend/ally by stabbing him in the back. This type of behavior does not seem like that of a leader.

    3) Mr. Priebus’s employer actively supports Obamacare and has lobbied to receive federal stimulus funds for its clients. Erick Erickson at RedState as well as numerous other authors have exposed Priebus’s support for Big Government. Priebus himself admits he supports REAL ID, a national identification program that will expand surveillance and government power.

    4) Mr. Priebus is not qualified to be National Committee Chair. In 2004, he lost his bid for State Senate. In 2007, he became Wisconsin GOP Chair and happened to lead the GOP to success in the 2010 election. The 2008 election was a disaster for the Wisconsin GOP — also under Priebus’s leadership. He became a lawyer in 1998. Look at the other candidates for RNC Chair and you’ll discover why Priebus’s resume just doesn’t add up.


    5) Mr. Priebus does not support the Tea Party. He will use the Tea Party to his own benefit, but there is no evidence that Priebus has shared values with the Tea Party.


    6) Mr. Priebus will change Republican National Committee rules to strengthen GOP party bosses to the detriment of primary voters and Tea Party activists. Priebus supports a top-down approach where party bosses decide which candidates should receive support rather than a grassroots, bottom-up approach where voters decide which candidates have earned their trust.


    7) Mr. Priebus believes in a GOP “unity pledge” and hopes to use his authority to boot out those who disagree. “A Republican must believe in something,” says Priebus. I don’t think we should leave it up to Priebus to decide who should and should not participate in the Republican Party.


    8.) Mr. Priebus re-directed Wisconsin GOP donor monies to his favorite candidates, a clear misuse of donor money. Two candidates for Governor and US Senate in Wisconsin (Scott Walker and Ron Johnson), despite having GOP primary opponents, were endorsed at the 2010 GOP Convention by party insiders — four months prior to Wisconsin’s primary. Wisconsin has a tradition of allowing primary voters to pick its nominees. Under Priebus, this system fell apart — to the detriment of grassroots conservatives and Tea Party voters whose candidates were not given support by party insiders. The establishment candidates selected were given over $700,000 in monies directly sent to the state GOP. Can a state Republican Party redirect money directly to candidates in a contested primary without consent from its donors?


    9) Mr. Priebus is not a good spokesman for the Republican Party. His performance in the RNC debate was lackluster and awkward. The audience barely responded to a word he said.


    10) Mr. Priebus is the choice of the political establishment — the same people who got our country and our party into this mess. Look who is supporting him.


    11) Mr. Priebus will use RNC money to lobby for REAL ID, a de facto National ID card that many states have already opted out of. He admitted this in the ATR/DailyCaller RNC debate.

    12) Mr. Priebus is an unapologetic advocate of pre-primary State Party and potentially National Party endorsements. This policy will strengthen party bosses and disempower grassroots activists and Tea Party voters. It also will increase the likelihood that non-conservative establishment candidates will be chosen in GOP primaries, and, as a result, General Elections.



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    I heard he is also the new Praetor of the Romulan Senate. The Federation is going to have quite a time keeping them in line now.
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    It's a good thing we're all active in our local gOP. Soon we'll be the people making these choices, right?

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    6) Mr. Priebus will change Republican National Committee rules to strengthen GOP party bosses to the detriment of primary voters and Tea Party activists. Priebus supports a top-down approach where party bosses decide which candidates should receive support rather than a grassroots, bottom-up approach where voters decide which candidates have earned their trust.


    7) Mr. Priebus believes in a GOP “unity pledge” and hopes to use his authority to boot out those who disagree. “A Republican must believe in something,” says Priebus. I don’t think we should leave it up to Priebus to decide who should and should not participate in the Republican Party
    Those are pretty bad.

    However, if we were going to fight this, we should have gotten someone in and fought for them. At this point, this late, I think we lose, and create an enemy if we fight it now. Make him need us, might be better. But Paul Ryan doesn't sound good. They are pushing that guy like crazy.

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    Reince Priebus?

    Senator Palpatine?

    Bobba Fett?

    Who the $#@! is this guy?

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    more reasons why Ron Paul 2012 must happen. If the gop keeps going down this alley they will alienate themselves!! If you cannot save a dog even a vet will tell you it needs to be put down sooner or later !! Hopefully the GOP can be saved!!
    2016 gop est business as usual, rules do not apply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    It's a good thing we're all active in our local gOP. Soon we'll be the people making these choices, right?
    Yes. As we begin to claim more and more power at the State level in our respective party orgs, we will carry more of a swing vote. In 2012, we will have the opportunity to elect National Committeemen and National Committeewomen, and those two (along with the State Chair) are who votes for the RNC Chair.

    So we need to look towards and prepare for State Convention battles for RNC committeemembers in 2012.
    http://glenbradley.net/share/aleksan...nitsyn_4-t.gif “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn



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    Remove the vowels in Reince Priebus' name and you get "RNC PR BS."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Remove the vowels in Reince Priebus' name and you get "RNC PR BS."
    hahaha!

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    I thought this thread was going to be about Pleepleus.

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    5) Mr. Priebus does not support the Tea Party. He will use the Tea Party to his own benefit, but there is no evidence that Priebus has shared values with the Tea Party.

    You got that right but don't kid yourself about how affective the Tea Parties are in Wisconsin. Johnson blew off their voter forums and townhall meetings and still won the primary easily. Walker route the Tea Party candidate for governor in another primary.

    Mr. Priebus was elected for one reason, because he knows how to keep the Tea Party under his control and its very simple to do in Wisconsin. You spend big bucks on TV ads, because that's how most voters in state get to know their candidates, through television. Without any kind of caucus system, political activism is very hard to do in Wisconsin.

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    removed
    Last edited by kahless; 01-14-2011 at 07:00 PM.



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