Seriously, elections like this one don’t come to often. The NRSC should be trying to capitalize on the voter sentiment that is out there as well as the items you listed. This could be a huge win, if only the leadership believed in actually tying to win seats.

I think it is becoming abundantly clear that the NRSC is now in the business of pushing a certain brand of ideology rather than their actual job of winning seats for Republicans.

even if it is a long shot.

And people are on my case for always being negative about the Republican Party and it’s minions in leadership?!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

What is going on with these guys? I have to wonder if they are complicit with this runaway train to socialism. Where is the fight? Brown actually has a good shot at upending Coakely. If he wins the special election, the filabuster is guaranteed to hold when the amended Obamacare bill comes to the Senate again. And you wonder why I won’t donate to the RNC, NRSC, or NRCC.

http://www.brownforussenate.com/

Make this go viral.

I know which side I come down on.

That said, the NRSC should have made a token donation to Brown’s campaign to show they’re not totally tone deaf (which, of course, they are).

But I personally would rather see the NRSC husband its resources for next year (where it could make a big difference between a 3-4 seat gain, and a 6-8 seat gain), rather than spending much cash now on a race that it probably a waste of said cash.

(Note: I am not excusing the NRSC’s interference in local primary races – far from it: it’s why I’d pretty much like to see the NRSC go away. But I’m really not going to hold it against them for staying out of that backwater known as the state of MA…)

This is just too much to be believed…even for me…I’ve been disalusioned for quite a while with my party and I thought nothing they ever did could surprise me any more…but then there is this?

I must be sleeping…I need to wake up so this farce will end!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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Conservatives could make a difference in this race. Unfortunately, we don’t have separate phone banks or internet fund-raising coordinators or GOTV capabilities… We’ve instead left most of that to the GOP.

I’m under the impression that we’re pretty talented and willing to work – so it’ll be interesting to see what happens in this race.

Mew

And I used to confuse Cornyn with someone conservative. Anything directly associated with the GOP establishment needs to be burned at the stake right now.

And that would lead to hard feelings, there’ll be no more comity, no more “reaching across the aisle” “to get things done”, no more invitations to swanky soirees and cocktails …

Is that what you want?!

To be serious though; this is a regrettable display of short-term thinking and a lack of imagination. Helping Scott Brown may not eventually net us a seat now, but it is not beyond the realm of possibility that it could raise his profile and give them that added boost for a campaign (i.e. House, Governor) later.

How come it has never occurred to anyone in DC that one campaign can lay the foundation for another? That it may take more than one cycle to win a seat?

People keep saying Brown doesn’t have a shot.

I never voted before but this time I registered and only to vote for brown because I want to send a signal to washington. I don’t care if he wins or not (though I still think he has a shot.) If he doesn’t I just want it to be close enough to scare democrats.

BTW, I look at the Scott Brown election like I did when I watched the Red Sox win the world series for the first time in a long time. Down 0 games to 3. It happened for the Red Sox, why not for Brown. you never know whats going to happen. Don’t give up hope.

This sort of reminds me of a Simpson’s episode where some teacher doesn’t want to let the kids have any balls to play with at recess because the balls might get lost or damaged.

The fine print appears to be the RINO leadership wants to keep as much money as they can for their own uses in keeping their minority leadership status secure…

I think some do – it’s a big fish/small pond scenario.If Republicans did what it took & nominated the right candidates to have a majority, these guy’s leadership positions may be in jeopardy. Does not speak well for their character…

Winning anywhere should be the highest priority, but here are other reasons we need to contest this race. Even f it we don’t end up victorious, we need to show up because there are other benefits.

Message. Candidates aside, this is a chance to spread our message of freedom, lower taxes, less government. For far too long, we leave the left unchallenged in getting out their message. Let’s contest that. We may change a few minds along the way or sway some swing voters even if our candidate doesn’t win this time.

State parties. I can’t count how many time over the course of this year, the special elections, and redstaters comments on how their state parties are basket cases. We need to build our ground game and state parties. They cannot do that if they stay on the side lines. Building up our organization for this race may pay dividends for future races. We cannot let our organizational apparatus stagnate.

Springboards. Sometimes nobody candidates fare better than expected, lose, but end up using that progress to win some other time. Christine Todd Whitman was a nobody against Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)in 1990. Mark Warner was not well known in 1996 when challenging Sen. John Warner (R-VA).Mitt Romney, while a litter better known, but was still dwarfed in name ID to Sen. Ted Kenney (D-MA) in 1994, All came close, lost, but was able to parlay that to future victories. We need to build farm teams. Look at NY. Some poster recently commented that since Giuliani and Pataki are not challenging Gilliland, we may miss an opportunity to pick this seat up because we do not have anybody with a name. How do we get known names? By getting people out there and make a case for him or her. Pataki, by the way, was yet another example of an lesser known, outsider having success in a blue state.

We have to at least try. What’s the point of campaign committee if they do not engage in a campaign?

While Cornyn’s time at NRSC has been awful, there might be something else here. Maybe it hurts Brown to be associated with national Republicans in MA? Now he can point to this and say “look at how independent I am, vote for me all you Democrats.” since he needs a lot of Democrats to vote for him.

Does that outweigh what help 1MM would do, I don’t know.

Sen. Cornyn couldn’t find his rear end with both hands. There’s the classic JPEG on the Internet of the head up the rear end. It fits the RNC, NRCC, and NRSC to a T.

Somehow, I fear the potential gains in 2010′s elections will not be reached and we will be left with Bela Pelosi as Speaker and Dingy Harry as Senate Majority Leader because the RINOs will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because they want to,

That’s right. They want to. It’s easier being in the minority. First, you don’t have to lead and second, the likes of Cornyn, McConnell, Boehner and Sessions can keep their precious leadership positions. Some real conservatives would kick that bunch of losers out on their backsides.

you’ve said it all.

This should be a no-brainer for the NRSC, but once again we are reminded that the people who run the NRSC have no brains.

Is the current phrase… “Republican Leadership”… an oxymoron?

Ned Reck