This past Thursday the Republican Committee on Resolutions released this statement: “RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee urges that no support, financial or otherwise, be given to candidates who clearly do not support the core principles and positions of the Republican Party as expressed in the Platform of the Republican Party adopted in the 2008 National Convention. “
The Republican Party consists of individual people on a local level so shouldn’t it be up to these local people which candidate should or should not be supported by the party? What I see happening to the party is that they have distanced themselves from the citizens they claim to represent. In the last 14 years we have had two lame Presidential candidates whose main qualification was that it was their turn, this resulted in another four years of Clinton and now Obama. More recently we have had Scozzafava in New York and now Crist in Florida, along with other races throughout the country this emphasizes the need for the party to let the people decide who to best represent them in a general election. Once the people choose their candidate then let the party come in and throw its weight and money behind the chosen candidate.
I firmly believe that the people in a district or state know better who can best represent them more so than the party elites who sit in Washington trying to figure out how to maintain power. These party heads have a lousy track record and it is time to allow the people to do the job. If this were to happen we might actually get real representation in Washington and have a country we would be proud to leave to our children.
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It is obvious that not only the people of the 5th district, but, around the country feel that any national Republican committee, be it the RNC, the NRSC or the NRCC should not involve themselves, by funding or endorsement, for any primary contest around the country. We can scream about it all day long, they will not change, yet. Those that “get it” do not send contributions to the national committees, they send their contricutions directly to the candidates they prefer. Take a look at the Republican committee’s fundraising numbers, they are very weak and very bleak. I’m not sure that any one of the committee’s have the amount of dollars to even effect just a couple of national races. Asking McCain to sit down, and, shut up, is like asking a leopard to change his spots. Fund the candidates of your choice. Choke off the Republican committees of funds, they will have no choice but to “wise up” or become obsolete, they are more than half way there now.
Agreed! My wife and I have stopped giving to the national party. We give our money to individual candiates now and not just local ones these days. The internet is a game changer with respect to knowing about and contibuting to candidates. That is empowering us peasants.
Good post. The problem with the political establishment is that they have a top down leadership structure. This is a collectivist plague upon our nation. It’s time for the GOP to get out of the way and learn that just like our Representatives they serve the people…well, the Republican people.
Individuals do ultimately choose individual candidates.
The RNC and RPV have indeed distanced themselves in recent years not only from the citizens they claim to represent but also from many primarily conservative republicans they claim to represent as well.
Even our first President lamented the fact that we would even have political parties in the first place (in his Farewell address I believe).
If followed, however, this new rule will mean no money to many incumbants in Washington, and that is a welcome change I would applaud.