The race for NCGOP Chairman has changed some and it is now down to two people - Chad Adams and Tom Fetzer. I have thought long and hard about this race and have now made up my mind. Before, giving my decision I want to lay out the race as I see it and tell why I have decided the way I have.
First , let's consider the candidacy of Tom Fetzer. Tom is a solid conservative who knows his way around the political structure and the hierarchy. He was elected Mayor of Raleigh which is a big accomplishment for a Republican. Tom did a great job as Mayor and proved to be what he said he was. Tom would make a great US Senator or Congressman. He would probably even make a great Governor of this state. He would be a prolific fundraiser as state chairman and he would be well accepted by the Washington based RNC. He has good conections in Washington ad he would do a great job leading the party in the reelection battle for Richard Burr, a god friend of Tom's.
Chad Adams in his role with the John Locke Foundation allowed him to eastablish himself as a leader. Chad had much contact with the grassroots of the partyy throughout the state and he proved to effective at bringing the mkessage of the John Locke Foundation to them. He has energy and a passion for restoring the party. He would likely need help raising the funds needed but he is committed to raising the funds the party needs. He is not as well known by the RNC crowd as Tom is but he has the personality and the style to get along and to be accepted. He has good conections with the grassroots of the party in North Carolina.
I think the bottom line in this race is the need for the new Chairman to renergize the base of the party throughout the state and to listen to the activists who get things done for the party. The grassroots of the NCGOP have become dissatified and they feel that the state party pays more attention to what Washington wants that what the state needs. The members of the State Executive Committee feels that the meetings are designed to keep them from saying what they want and to push a preformed agenda down their throats regardless of what the committee thinks. In defense of the leadership, a big part of that problem lies with members of the committee but that is a topic for another day. With this in mind, the biggest Tom Fetzer has is that he will be percieved as a Washington Chairman bringing more of the same to the job. That perception will cause far too many of the activists to stay away. It is primarily for this reason that I support Chad Adams for NCGOP Chair.
Chad can do the job. He will work full time. He will be responsive to the grassroots (if he isn't he will fail). Chad will figure out how to raise the money needed. He will provide the type of leadership the activists have been longing for. He will be a different leader and that is desired by those people who the party needs to gain back its brand. The Democrats have stolen the NCGOP's brand and the party needs to claim it back in no uncertain terms. I believe Chad is the candidate who best recognizes that and he will kead to get it back.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Perdue Takes The Helm
Yesterday's inauguration in Raleigh brought North Carolina's first female governor into power, but that is not the real story. Yea, yea yea history is made with he first female governor blah blah blah. The electorate in North Carolina has a short memory and does not demonstrate itself as being very bright. Of course their are a number of important factors to this election that need consideration.
First, lets go back a short time and think about the big story, or stories to be more correct, that covered the scene and the media leading up to the election. Corruption corruption corruption conviction conviction conviction jail time jail time jail time. Get the point? The big story was the culture of corruption in Raleigh that went from the General Assembly, DOT, Boards like the Transportation Board, Lottery Commission and even out of Raleigh to local elected officials. The press moaned about the shame and how we needed to change and bring integrity and honesty back to North Carolina long known for clean government. Please! So what is the point? The point is that the electorate once again sent the same old crowd with the same old people back to Raleigh. Does anyone out there think anything will change? Is anyone out there paying attention? Does anyone out there care? That's all right when your taxes start going up and up remember why. Remember that you sent the same corrupt crowd that has been in the thick of the problem that has led us to where we are back to the helm to fix what they did, never to this day admitting that what they have done was wrong. Good Luck!
The second part to this story is who voted them in? I worked the polls on election as did many others I know. We were observers and promoters. I always love doing this because I would go outside and ask voters about the people they voted for. I worked a poll in Southeast Raleigh. I asked people one of three questions: 1. Did they vote for Beverly Perdue? 2. Who did they vote for for Congress? or 3. Do they think Kay Hagan will make a good Senator? All of the people I spoke with except one, voted a straight Democrat ticket and were proud to vote for Obama. None of them knew who Beverly Perdue was, none of them (except one who knew she voted for a woman for governor but did not know her name) knew who they voted for for governor and not one of them had any idea who Kay Hagan was. The liberal Democrat machine did its job. They elected a gang without the voters knowing who they were electing. It sure protects them from the corruption charges defeating them when they literally bus folks in who have no idea who they are voting for. North Carolina went from Red to Blue by the votes of many uneducated voters.
The third point is the disgraceful campaign run by the Republicans. With the exception of leaders like Skip Stam who worked hard to win in the State House, note here the Republicans held their own and did not lose ground in the General Assembly, the effort by Republicans was one of the worst in my memory. The McCain campaign was run by a bunch of bungling idiots who should all immediately retire from politics forever! The State GOP seemed to be more concerned with not offending anyone that with winning the election. The party apparatus seems to have forgotten that conservatism is what brought them to the table in a state run by Democrats for 200+ years. The GOP staff was better at making Republican activists angry than with getting them work harder to win. The NCGOP has a critical decision to make this June. They will elect new leadership and they had better get it right or they will not get enough seats in 2010 to sit at the redistricting table after the census. That, my friends, means another ten years of gerrymandered voting districts that will keep the Democrats in charge in spite of the fact they generally get fewer votes statewide for General Assembly races than the Republicans.
The final piece of the story may be the biggest. The mainstream media in this country has proven themselves to be the greatest threat to our freedom. In the 2008 election they finally abandoned any precepts of reporting the news and instead created an alternate reality in order to elect Barack Obama and a bigger majority in Congress for their liberal socialist agenda. The news was distorted and the media flat out lied to the public to achieve their goal of a socialist government. They will now push hard for, among other things, The Fairness Doctrine to shut up their opposition, Conservatives, to regain their monopoly on the "news". They will work very hard for the socialist elitist policies they have longed for since the sixties. They failed to get control in and after the sixties but they see their chance now. We has all better wake up. Look what has already happened: we have a political recession, nationalizing of financial institutions, nationalizing of the auto industry, a campaign to make all America believe that the only salvation is to rely on money sent to our mailboxes by our benevolent mother the Federal Government and a clear push to nationalizing our health care system. The conservative majority in this country and the entrepreneurs who have made this country the greatest one on earth better wake up and not allow the left to take away our freedom.
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First, lets go back a short time and think about the big story, or stories to be more correct, that covered the scene and the media leading up to the election. Corruption corruption corruption conviction conviction conviction jail time jail time jail time. Get the point? The big story was the culture of corruption in Raleigh that went from the General Assembly, DOT, Boards like the Transportation Board, Lottery Commission and even out of Raleigh to local elected officials. The press moaned about the shame and how we needed to change and bring integrity and honesty back to North Carolina long known for clean government. Please! So what is the point? The point is that the electorate once again sent the same old crowd with the same old people back to Raleigh. Does anyone out there think anything will change? Is anyone out there paying attention? Does anyone out there care? That's all right when your taxes start going up and up remember why. Remember that you sent the same corrupt crowd that has been in the thick of the problem that has led us to where we are back to the helm to fix what they did, never to this day admitting that what they have done was wrong. Good Luck!
The second part to this story is who voted them in? I worked the polls on election as did many others I know. We were observers and promoters. I always love doing this because I would go outside and ask voters about the people they voted for. I worked a poll in Southeast Raleigh. I asked people one of three questions: 1. Did they vote for Beverly Perdue? 2. Who did they vote for for Congress? or 3. Do they think Kay Hagan will make a good Senator? All of the people I spoke with except one, voted a straight Democrat ticket and were proud to vote for Obama. None of them knew who Beverly Perdue was, none of them (except one who knew she voted for a woman for governor but did not know her name) knew who they voted for for governor and not one of them had any idea who Kay Hagan was. The liberal Democrat machine did its job. They elected a gang without the voters knowing who they were electing. It sure protects them from the corruption charges defeating them when they literally bus folks in who have no idea who they are voting for. North Carolina went from Red to Blue by the votes of many uneducated voters.
The third point is the disgraceful campaign run by the Republicans. With the exception of leaders like Skip Stam who worked hard to win in the State House, note here the Republicans held their own and did not lose ground in the General Assembly, the effort by Republicans was one of the worst in my memory. The McCain campaign was run by a bunch of bungling idiots who should all immediately retire from politics forever! The State GOP seemed to be more concerned with not offending anyone that with winning the election. The party apparatus seems to have forgotten that conservatism is what brought them to the table in a state run by Democrats for 200+ years. The GOP staff was better at making Republican activists angry than with getting them work harder to win. The NCGOP has a critical decision to make this June. They will elect new leadership and they had better get it right or they will not get enough seats in 2010 to sit at the redistricting table after the census. That, my friends, means another ten years of gerrymandered voting districts that will keep the Democrats in charge in spite of the fact they generally get fewer votes statewide for General Assembly races than the Republicans.
The final piece of the story may be the biggest. The mainstream media in this country has proven themselves to be the greatest threat to our freedom. In the 2008 election they finally abandoned any precepts of reporting the news and instead created an alternate reality in order to elect Barack Obama and a bigger majority in Congress for their liberal socialist agenda. The news was distorted and the media flat out lied to the public to achieve their goal of a socialist government. They will now push hard for, among other things, The Fairness Doctrine to shut up their opposition, Conservatives, to regain their monopoly on the "news". They will work very hard for the socialist elitist policies they have longed for since the sixties. They failed to get control in and after the sixties but they see their chance now. We has all better wake up. Look what has already happened: we have a political recession, nationalizing of financial institutions, nationalizing of the auto industry, a campaign to make all America believe that the only salvation is to rely on money sent to our mailboxes by our benevolent mother the Federal Government and a clear push to nationalizing our health care system. The conservative majority in this country and the entrepreneurs who have made this country the greatest one on earth better wake up and not allow the left to take away our freedom.
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