A Vision for California’s Visionless
Republican Party
American Greatness,
by
Edward Ring
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/28/2020 11:41:28 AM
About a month ago, the California Republican Party apparently harvested my email address, because since then I’ve been the lucky recipient of an email avalanche from “CAGOP.” Every day now, sometimes twice a day, their messages turn up in my inbox with subject lines such as “Are you as tired of Gavin Newsom as we are?,” (Snip)It should go without saying, that you can support Trump’s policies without having to agree with every one of his tweets,(Snip). You don’t have to defend every action he’s taken, and you don’t have to agree with all his policies. But what you can do is visualize and articulate how Trump’s overall policy agenda
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/28/2020 11:42:32 AM (No. 300468)
FTA:
To be fair, it isn’t easy for the CAGOP in California, where leftist oligarchs and public-sector unions are willing and able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every election cycle to support Democratic candidates and causes. But courage and vision are free. You don’t have to spend $900,000 on focus groups and polling if you have a good idea. You just go out and sell it.
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earlybird 1/28/2020 11:45:41 AM (No. 300475)
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An effective message from the CAGOP wouldn’t just spew carefully curated sound bites, pretending to dislike Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. It would offer a specific policy agenda, and not only propose candidates but also offer citizen initiatives sponsored directly by the party to fulfill that agenda. That’s a message that would not be deleted. That would be a message from an organization with a genuine mission, instead of yet another rote ejaculation from a diminishing fiefdom of supposedly conservative consultants, past their prime, hanging on to dwindling donor dollars.
Ring absolutely nails it...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 1/28/2020 1:15:40 PM (No. 300572)
I wasn't aware my state had a Republican Party. I registered non-party / independent. I'm voting Trump next election. Not because I think my vote will flip the state red but to have one more vote in the tally in opposition to the unconstitutional idiocy about Clinton winning the popular vote. I admit to stay home last time because it's California and the vote is rigged blue. Next time I won't.
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vinegrower 1/28/2020 2:00:59 PM (No. 300621)
So many great ideas here. The biggest problem is finding people to articulate ideas like these and not be afraid of the groups that will come after you. Pres Trump is one in a million who has coat of armor. He never cares if people don't like him or his ideas he is willing to fight back, the most important part of getting your ideas through to the public.
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Maggie2u 1/28/2020 2:01:55 PM (No. 300624)
This is off topic but this is kind of a pet peeve of mine. These unending solicitation letters begging for money for lost causes. My mother sends money to almost every Catholic organization that sends her a letter. I call them the Sisters of Perpetual Begging. She isn't amused. My brother Jim, who lives in the same retirement community as her, gets letters from a dozen or more organizations asking for money for disabled veterans. I've tried showing him how these organizations spend more money on fund raising than giving to veterans. He will also send money to anyone saying they're going to get Hillary imprisoned.
Last November, my other brother and his wife, who usually checks their mail were gone for five weeks so I was in charge. At the end of the five weeks, I had over THREE GROCERY SACKS full of junk mail, everyone of them asking for money. It should be a crime for these places to take advantage of the elderly and the brain damaged. (my brother Jim). Saturday I saw a letter to her from the Seattle Archdiocese asking for money for their annual fund raising drive. My mom usually sends them a couple of thousand dollars every year PLUS her every Sunday check in the collection basket. I threw the letter away. She's in a nursing home for a few weeks and hopefully won't realize what I did.
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The main point, they need to know how to present themselves, sell their ideas, etc...
Of course, it's always tough when you will be branded for cutting this, and cutting that program, even if it's only $10 less.
Maybe, if they pushed the idea of ever increasing costs, taxes, fees, are also driving the homelessness problem, and how maybe they should work on improving efficiencies, and productivity, much like in any business.
But, that is the problem, there are now enough government workers, and people receiving government benefits, that they are now voting to keep that going, not how can the system be improved or funds allocated more effectively.
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VirtuDawg 1/28/2020 4:34:08 PM (No. 300743)
My experience with California Republicans:
My wife, a moderate Republican, ran for our local school board in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010. Her main opponents were Democrats, endorsed and supported by the local Democratic Party and teachers' union (with mailers, door-door canvassing, etc.).
We approached the local Republican Party for an endorsement and any support they could give us. They would only agree to meet with her on the Saturday of our daughter's wedding. She received no support from the local Republican Party -- nothing/zip/nada.
She won handily, first place, against three Dim opponents for two open school board seats. She received emails and letters of congratulations from local politicians (including State Assemblyman and Senator), all Dims. Nothing/nada/zip from the local Republican Party.
She ran for reelection in 2014, against 3 local Dims for two open seats, and once again won first place. We didn't even attempt to approach the local Republican Party for this election cycle, and of course, never had any interaction with them during or after the campaign.
She ran for a third term in 2018, and once again came in first place. During her campaign, she was informed by a local Dim official that she had been endorsed by the local Republican Party in the 2014 election, which was a total surprise to us, since we had never been informed by them and, of course, had not received any support from them.
She is now a registered Democrat.
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Once again, as we’ve seen with the institutional Republican Party, they are on defense - never on offense. As Ring points out, a substantial number of Californians do support President Trump. It is the party and its hired gurus who are missing the mark.