RNC: After One Year, Americans Want Change – from Obama


Marking President Barack Obama’s first year in office, the Republican National Committee Thursday released a new web video which makes no bones about the GOP’s attempts to tap into the anti-tax and anti-big government sentiments among Tea Partiers.

“His rhetoric promised ‘Change we can believe in,’” the voice-over said, “but his record delivered disappointment, change we didn’t expect.”

The ad enumerates those offenses observed as most egregious–the stimulus bill, cap and trade, and health care reform–by the Tea Party groups, but makes an assertion many in the conservative grassroots have not yet warmed to: That Republicans would have performed better than Democrats and delivered the change Obama only promised.

“This November the American people will tell the President that Republicans are ones that can enact the change we need.”

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a bunch of scumbags if you ask me

bk (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:07AM EST (link)

They are trying to hijack/take credit for the tea party efforts when the party did pretty much nothing useful since Obama got elected.

This is further evidence that the best thing people can do is donate to candidates and not to the RNC, the NRCC, or the NRSC.

They pissed a million bucks down the toilet for Dede, giving NY-23 to the Dems, are doing the same with Fiorina and Crist, and were Johnny-come-lately to Brown with paltry late support.

I agree

capeindependent Thursday, January 21st at 10:34AM EST (link)

if the GOP is not going to listen to the people then they are just as Doomed. No more spin! Lets see where the Tea Party goes, maybe it is time for a third party, yeah I have heard all the arguments why that is bad. Let me throw you a twist, when we get 3 parties we will eliminate one leaving only two. No disrespect to Redstate but this is the convergence information age. Same ol sheit ain’t gonna cut it. All of my future donations will bypass the parties and go directly to the candidate who is listening to the people. I am tired of being ignored, none of the problems this nation faces are really overly complex, rather it is the political solutions that create the chaos. Founding Fathers got her done in 4 pages… common sense, we need to find it.

Yeah, 3rd party, that's what we need right now.

NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 11:25AM EST (link)

I’m yet to be convinced that we’re going to have a foot left at all, what with all the bullet holes we’re planning to put in them.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

 
 

That's so last decade.

NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:52AM EST (link)

The GOP simply can’t win. They’re chastised for ignoring the Tea Party movement. Then when they mention it, they’re chastised for trying to usurp the movement.

2009 was the year for torches & pitchforks. We better find a way to work together in 2010 to elect Republicans, or we’re in for at least another two years of crap being shoved down our throats.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

Would be nice if the GOP told conservatives "we didn't get it either"

bk (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 11:27AM EST (link)

and are going to refocus instead of acting like they’ve been leading the way.

I've heard Steele say exactly that on at least one occasion.

NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 11:32AM EST (link)

I really don’t know how many times it needs to be said. I for one would not want to give the other side any ammunition. We’re already referred to as the Party of No. I really don’t want to see ads calling us the Party That Don’t Know.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

Steele's credibility isn't much to bank on it seems to me

bk (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:05PM EST (link)

He goes around hawking a book that he dubiously claims was written long ago, and then to top that off, it’s subtitled “A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda” while he’s stumping on the GOP having a positive agenda. All that does is lend credence to the stupid “party of no” lies from the left/MSM.

The National Party can do a lot of good in what SHOULD be a banner year, but not if they keep shooting conservatives in the feet.

 
 

I'm with you on this.

Right_Again (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:09PM EST (link)

I enjoyed the ad until the end. I don’t think just saying the GOP has the answers is enough. Republicans proved the last time they were in charge that they didn’t listen either.

This should have ended with, “The American people have the answers. The GOP is willing to listen.”

 
 
 
 

I look as if the sun is starting shine and

Greg (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:26AM EST (link)

warm up the party after a very long ice age. The still not getting my money until they stop supporting RINO’s in the party.

Same here

In The Hook (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:38AM EST (link)

So given that we’re all in agreement that the various national committees need to wake the heck up, shouldn’t we start a big thread of various congressional candidates that we think deserve grassroots support?

We’ve all seen the big efforts for Rubio and DeVore, but what about folks in the House who need our help? I’m stuck in Alcee Hastings district, which isn’t flipping red… well ever. But I do know of a candidate in a nearby PVI D+1 district that I think can win but isn’t getting much help from the national folks.

I’m talking about Allen West. He won 45% of the vote in FL-22 against Ron Klein despite entering the race in late ’07 and not getting much support from anyone. He’s running again and I think that a former Army officer who was named “man of the year” by FrontPage in 2004 is worth a look. It also helps, I suppose, that he’s a black man running in south Florida and I think if we can get behind him and Rubio, possibly together, that we can send a really legit message that conservatism is about ideas that are good for all people and combat the well-worn but false media image that we’re all white men.

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I fill your pain

Greg (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:50AM EST (link)

I’m stuck in the soloist State of Maryland, were the district I live in was gerrymander a few years back to insure a D win.

At least

In The Hook (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:56AM EST (link)

There is a competitive district that runs, quite literally, around me. GOP represented FL-22 until the ’06 wave. Now Ron Klein is there and I’m sick of his face on my television. That’s why I’m trying to get West’s name out to the conservative grassroots.

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RNC Highjackers

wolfster38 (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:36AM EST (link)

Well well well, The RNC is now the party of Tea? First off I really don’t know how stupid the RNC can be, This is stupid, do they think anyone will get behind the RNC with progressives and RINO’s everywhere in that party. Is the RNC going to rid the party of people like Mark Kirk Republican and turncoat? Kirk voted for Cap & Tax and these people what us to think they are on our side. The games up @ssholes. We know who you are. You are nothing but elected employees thats it!

You get all the PROGRESSIVES and all the RINOs out and then you can talk. Untill then go back and do the damn job WE pay you for.
Scott Brown was not a victory for the RNC it was a victory for the PEOPLE. It’s “WE THE PEOPLE” not , We the Government! GET IT?

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Um..

In The Hook (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:43AM EST (link)

Brown is not much further to the right than Kirk on social issues and did vote for a “green energy” type bill in Massachusetts. Frankly, I don’t like Kirk. I lived in his district during my college years and the guy is pretty far to the left of our caucus. But, on the other hand, he’s the most likely to win a seat in Illinois and I think beggars can’t be choosers. If Kirk was running in Missouri or Indiana or even a less blue midwestern state like Wisconsin or Iowa, yeah I’d say go full bore for the more conservative candidate in the primary and be mad if he wins that contest.

But Illinois is not a purple state. It’s deep blue and the GOP governors and senators that have won in the last decades have all been fairly liberal. That’s life. Just like the Dems will never get a liberal to win a seat in Utah or Idaho, we’ll never get a rock-solid conservative to win statewide in places like Illinois, Vermont, Hawaii, New York or yes, even Massachusetts since Brown is far from being DeMint. That’s just how it is.

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Not so sure about this

mriggio (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:53AM EST (link)

Illinois looks deep blue because of the population imbalance in Chicago. Downstate, not so much. As for recent governors and senators I give you Peter Fitzgerald…

I don’t like Kirk at all either, and elsewhere anacreon discusses the split in the Republican party in Illinois over him. This is why we have party leadership elections and primaries. If Kirk wins the primary, I’ll have to hold my nose and vote for him, but until then, he definitely ain’t my guy.

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Finally someone talking since...

Gandalf (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:30PM EST (link)

…in Illinois.

I’m mostly just an observer here at RedState, but I keep seeing this nonsense about having people like DeMint represent States like Illinois or California.

The fact of the matter is that Representatives and Senators are supposed to REPRESENT their states, not a specific ideology. Mark Kirk is, for whatever reason, an excellent Republican representative for Illinois, as is Sen. Brown for Massachusetts and Snowe and Collins in Maine.

If conservatives want to be relavent, we have to learn how to be realistic. Sure, there’s no reason to have a Senator like Graham in S. Carolina or Bennett in Utah, but we should be thrilled to have the Maine twins and now Sen. Brown with us, even if only 50% of the time.

I don’t agree with Rep. Kirk, but I would be thrilled if he became Sen. Kirk.

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Yes, the order is important.

D'oh!

Gandalf (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:32PM EST (link)

“sense”, not “since”

Christian Conservative First
Patriotic American Second
Dedicated Republican Third

Yes, the order is important.

 
 
 
 

The RNC Needs to Apologize first

Beaglescout (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:36AM EST (link)

They need to say “we messed up. We became big government Republicans and betrayed the American people who have to pay for and deal with thfe intolerable effects of that big government. We are truly sorry for that, and we will never do it again.”

Then they can start beating their chest.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

–Alexander Hamilton

Would you believe them even if they said it?

NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:54AM EST (link)

You know you wouldn’t. Let’s work together in 2010 to get Republicans elected, then we’ll hold their feet to the fire after they’re in office.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

I disagree

capeindependent Thursday, January 21st at 11:20AM EST (link)

we need to hold their collective feet to the fire first then elect them. Need proof… Obama. Broken promises, lies, spin, dodging… once in power the agenda rules not the will of the people. Without recall power they get a free ride for years. Just before its time to campaign they moderate and appear contrite and lie to us why it was necessary for the good of the country ya da ya da. In the past we always swallowed their BS and re-elected them. GOP needs to re-organize and vow that their role is to represent us. Too much at stake to lie down now. The GOP is just drooling to usurp the Tea Party but it is not going to happen. GOP needs to align with the center and then make a case for keeping the GOP name for continuity, which would make sense IMO. But the GOP needs to almost change direction by 180 degress.

So when you don't get that apology,

NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 11:23AM EST (link)

and you won’t, what will you do?

Can you imagine the political ammunition the GOP would give to the Dems if they came out and apologized?

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

The precinct committeeman project goes on

Beaglescout (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:04PM EST (link)

Conservatives, many of them tea party attendees, are taking over the Republican Party starting at the base. This is something that must continue for evermore.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

–Alexander Hamilton

Of course.

NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:47PM EST (link)

Now, about 2010…

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

 
 
 
 
 
 

State of the Union Rebuttal...

LisaDe (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:38AM EST (link)

They should pick Scott Brown to do it. Can you imagine the aftershocks!

No ... but only because

acat (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:57PM EST (link)

Brown is up for re-election in 2012 and he has, thus far, been very quiet about his party affiliation. This is deliberate on his part.

The independents were able to vote for him in part because he’s not the “Face of the Republican Party”. He needs to maintain his independence if he’s going to win re-election, eh?

Now, if you want to make some waves, either of the two new Republican Governors would be good choices. Not quite as much of a splash, maybe, but .. just as damaging, and there’s some tradition on the Republican side of giving the response to a Governor.

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I give it a B+

mriggio (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:44AM EST (link)

Especially the Change We Can Believe In versus Change We Didn’t Expect theme.

An additional 15-20 seconds of contrasting policy proposals, even general in nature-stronger national defense, homeland security, slash spending-would be better at the end than simply asserting we’re better. Maybe crib a bit from Senator-elect Brown’s (feels good to type that, just as Mark Steyn said it did!) victory speech, if they’ve forgotten our talking points….

The whole thing kind of builds up to a feeble climax, IMHO.

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"...Change we didn't expect?" Really?

TNJim (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:46AM EST (link)

Many of us out here in the field did expect this kind of change towards socialism, although perhaps many of us didn’t anticipate the speed in which they would try to enact it, Mr. Voice-over. We paid attention to the drips and drabs of clues into Obama’s past, his associates, and saw this coming.

As bk noted above the RNC has been late to the party in noticing what we have all too often. One sign in the video says “Throw all the bums out!” That includes RINO’s as well, some of whom the RNC has supported, are supporting.

Activism: What to do after the TEA party rally. Unified Patriots

Of course WE did

In The Hook (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 10:49AM EST (link)

But this video is trying to appeal to the moderate or even the quasi-conservative that voted for Obama because they were sick of Bush and wanted a new direction, any direction, as long as it was away from where they were. It’s a good tag in that regard.

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"Unexpected" Is The Word Of The Day!

Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:04PM EST (link)

I just wrote a little piece on the word under a diary by Marcus Traianus:

http://www.redstate.com/marcus_traianus/2010/01/21/obama-administration-provides-visas-for-terrorism-suspects/#comment-438

OF COURSE you can expect everything MAObama has done this year: you simply read Marx and Alinsky and everything is predictable! :)

On Third Parties: the push here at RedState to “conservatize” the Republican Party is a better bet than a Third Party. East Coast Republicans/D.C. Republicans need to rethink their participation in the recent past with Dems, and wonder why they keep traveling that one-way street marked as “Compromising Toward Socialism.”

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Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

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There needs to be some Mea Culpa

JoeG Thursday, January 21st at 11:58AM EST (link)

Right now there isn’t an anti-democrat mood, it’s a anti-incumbent mood.

They need some Mea Culpa in the ad and the it would be perfect.

What I want to hear:
“We didn’t stick to our ideals and you threw us out. We were wrong and we’re ready to make amends.”

 

Hey Republicans you can't take us for granted

neyney Thursday, January 21st at 12:07PM EST (link)

I don’t agree with the philosophy that we have to “throw all the bums out” that’s stupid. What we need to do is go GOPer by GOPer and see who’s closest to the Tea Party line. If they pass the test we help them get re-elected if not they should be no safer than the Dems. I realize that a MA conservative is not a TX conservative and that’s why we need to look at each individual carefully. I want the GOP to understand that RINO’s are no safer than Dems in November. I also get angry when the GOP tries to glaum on to the Tea Party as if they helped organize it in any way. Until we can get a reliably electable third Independents Party the GOP will remain our best bet but they better understand that the Tea Party movement is in many ways just as angry with them as they are with the Dems. McConell’s statement just today about a compromise with the Dems on the HC bill is just the latest in a long line of wrong moves by Republicans. Make the Dems scrap the existing bill and then start over with true bi-partisanship and then maybe there will be hope for the GOP

 

No sale. Tea Partiers were individuals who gave up

katesmith (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:31PM EST (link)

Time from work, with family, other important matters, often at financial cost. They begged elected republicans for years to at least show they had a pulse. They begged GOP candidate McCain to please campaign, to please act like he wanted to win for us. We have elected republicans’ actions to go by, their devotion to the new young president, their scorn toward us, hoping labeling us as “purists” (a tactic the left also uses) will make us go away. Their laying down is actually a shrewd secret strategy, they say. The business side of the GOP and those they favor have had years in the limelight and as such are fully to blame for losing our country, causing so called Tea Partiers to make major life changes because they had no leaders to defend them. The GOP allowed or promoted the lie of global warming, cap and trade, the sub prime scandal, and the ascendancy of Soros and Goldman Sachs. On Scott Brown’s vote on green energy, he has always been against cap and trade, has said he was earlier sold a bill of goods on global warming, but now knows about Climategate and has wised up (per Michelle Malkin). Hopefully the Supreme Court will realize it acted on incomplete information on climate. The candidate we were told to step out of the way for, McCain, championed cap and trade which is just a slow way of stabbing Americans in the back. Independents can vote on the republican line as they’ve done in NJ and Mass. Don’t need to waste time on 3rd parties right now.