Sure President Bush was unpopular

Sure we were defending more seats in the Senate than the Democrats…

But what did this genius do to get us out of the whole? Did he try to rehabilitate Bush’s image? Did he do anything to educate the public about the fact that the Congress who had a 91% disapproval rating was run by Democrats? Did he point out the culture of corruption of William Jefferson, Charley Rangel, Tony Resco, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, all the ex Clinton Administration people like Rubin and Tyson and all the others that raided Fannie MAE and Freddie MAC and jumped out with Golden Parachutes? I think a campaign organized around a “Democrat Culture Of Corruption” after they won in 2006 promising to clean up the “Republican Culture Of Corruption” would have helped a lot. Did we hear anything from him and the RNC?

It may be a chicken and egg arguement but how do you win elections if you don’t even compete?

and why did Duey Dumb AXX not have enough money? Maybe because he started out the elections telling contributors it was a lost cause ?

The only thing more enraging to me than you think you deserve another 2 to 4 years to make a mess of this party is the fact that you haven’t been run out of Washington on a rail!

He didn’t have money? Whose fault was that? His party was unpopular? Where was he when it was time to tell Bush to abandon the New Tone™ and start defending himself? Where was he on the Sunday Morning talkshows? He hid himself away at RNC headquarters and was so non-descript that the average plugged-in insider didn’t know his name.

While Howard Dean was pursuing his 50 state strategy, and it was showing results, what was he doing? When we lost Dennis Hastert’s seat, why did no alarm bells ring? When we lost long-held GOP seats in LA and MS, did he call any emergency meetings with Congressional leaders and RNC staff?

This was a failure long in the making. That he had barely enough money to compete in battlegrounds and nothing to devote to Democratic strongholds is not something beyond his control that just happened … and for what its worth, he’s supposed to be a great fundraiser.

The simple fact is that he messed up. He, like Mehlman before him, owed his position to Bush so he couldn’t challenge the President when the President was taking the party down with him. Which is why I wrote way back in April that we need to have the Chairman of the RNC be an elected position.

Duncan needs to go.

To lose because you skirt the truth rather than offend your opponent is inexcusable.

If you’re afraid to offend, it means you’ll never win.

Liberals are offended by the proposition that the individual can be better trusted to spend his own money to his own benefit than a faceless bureaucrat in some government agency.

Liberals are offended by the notion that parents will make better choices about their children’s education than government.

Liberals are offended by the belief that the free market is a better distributor of resources and provides the best environment for innovation and improvement in standards of living.

Liberals are offended by the fact that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual the right of self-defense to protect themselves, their families and their property … and as a check against government.

Liberals are offended by people who believe that a child in the womb is a human being whose life has worth.

In other words, if Republicans (and this goes quadruple for “moderates” and “Bipartisans”) continue to place any importance on not offending Democrats, because of some stupid concern for “Bipartisanship” or “comity”, we’re going to spend another 40 years in the wilderness, and we’ll deserve it.

Broken link can be found here:

http://www.redstate.com/rottdawg/2008/12/21/tcots-co-founder-asks-mike-duncan-to-step-aside/