thenextright.com - 1/5/2009
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Are we clear on the role of the RNC Chairman or does it need to be better defined?
As a co-founder of Rebuild the Party , I’m staying neutral in the RNC Chairman race (at least for now); yet, I’m heavily invested in the process and ensuring we elect the best man for the ...
politico.com - 1/4/2009
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politico.com —
Two dozen conservative luminaries will announce today their
support for former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell
for Republican Nation Committee chairman. The group, which mixes leading economic conservatives, including Steve Forbes and Pat ...
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Top conservatives back Blackwell
thenextright.com - 1/5/2009
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thenextright.com —
Tomorrow is the RNC candidates debate hosted by
ATR. You can submit your question for the candidates
and vote here. Perhaps not surprisingly, Ron Paul activists have voted up the majority of questions con the site. Most of these questions deal not ...
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Good Questions to Vote for in the ATR Debate
redstate.com - 1/4/2009
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redstate.com —
Among the candidates for Republican National Committee chairman,
there’s no question Michael Steele is among the most
recognizable — a political celebrity thanks to his work for Fox News and run for U.S. Senate in 2006. Aside from his ...
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The Case Against Michael Steele
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The Role of the RNC Chair
QandO —
Here’s the extended comment I left at The Next Right in response to Mindy Finn’s question of the appropriate role(s) of the RNC Chair: Private fundraising, both directly from candidates and from third-party (not "Libertarian" third party, but "MoveOn" third-party) groups, should start to take precedence over centralized party funds for individual races. If a critical race needs to be tipped one way or the other, the Right needs to have a separate infrastructure in place to get funds to that candidate. The party should highlight these races, but not spend funds ...
Join, or Die
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
I was going to title this diary “Let’s Get Together, Yeah Yeah Yeah” but I figured the allusion to “The Parent Trap” would a) date me, and b) be a little lame. So I went with something a little more macho - Benjamin Franklin’s political cartoon from 1754. The cartoon is much more appropriate for a serious topic - how do we “join” (or “get together”) to pursue the purpose of rebuilding our party and rebuild our conservative base?
“Politics is compromise” is a truism about how we must operate in the political realm. Ironically, this quote has been ...
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USA Today previews the RNC chair race, as well as today’s candidate forum in DC.
CQ reports that RNC chairman Mike Duncan "has told Republican insiders that neither he nor any other of the five candidates in the race will have the 85 votes needed to ...
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