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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Most incompetent president in history, and under the leadership of McDaniel we couldn't take both the house and senate. Just shows that the majority are swamp creatures and the old addage of politicians' priorities is true (#1: getting elected, #2: getting re-elected, Distant 3rd: everything else).

Michigan Republican Party isn’t much better. Here our state House, Senate and Executive branches are now Democratic controlled.

Top two primary candidates in were,kicked off the primary ballot due to problems with signatures on their nominating petitions. So the third rated candidate becomes the Republican candidate for the Governorship. Gets basically NO support from the state party. Incumbent Governor’s campaign plays up the Republican candidate stance on abortion. About a month before the election the state GOP starts “some” help, not enough, incumbent wins, what a surprise.

After the election, incumbent said that if the GOP candidate had pushed against her on the gas tax that was part of her first race the outcome would probably have been different.

So after the across the board losses during the general election the state GOP head blames ALL the losses on the fact that the Republicans had a “weak” candidate for Governor.

Let’s see, third on the popularity list was made Gubernatorial candidate by default, no support by the state party and then they blame her.
Makes perfect sense (?) to me.

Until the Republican Party stops supporting mentally unhinged candidates the dumb, but not crazy, Democrats will prevail. We need Reagan Republicans to be nominated to be added to the slate.

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Until the Republican Party stops supporting mentally unhinged candidates the dumb, but not crazy, Democrats will prevail. We need Reagan Republicans to be nominated to be added to the slate.

Who is mentally unhinged on the Republican side exactly?

All the wackjobs seem to be in the Democrat party if you ask me.

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Until the Republican Party stops supporting mentally unhinged candidates ...

Candidates choose themselves. Individuals pay a filing fee to have their names put on the ballot. Who chooses to identify as a Republican, or a Democrat, or a Libertarian, or a Green, or as Independent is completely up to the individual at the time they file to become a candidate with the Secretary of State.

What many people do not realize is that the party does not choose the candidate. The candidate chooses the party.

Sometimes... "mentally unhinged" people become candidates. That's what primaries are for. People choose a party and choose the best candidate to represent that party. Primary voters should choose the best among those who are willing to put their name forward and avoid those whom they consider "mentally unhinged".

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Until the Republican Party stops supporting mentally unhinged candidates ...

Candidates choose themselves. Individuals pay a filing fee to have their names put on the ballot. Who chooses to identify as a Republican, or a Democrat, or a Libertarian, or a Green, or as Independent is completely up to the individual at the time they file to become a candidate with the Secretary of State.

What many people do not realize is that the party does not choose the candidate. The candidate chooses the party.

Sometimes... "mentally unhinged" people become candidates. That's what primaries are for. People choose a party and choose the best candidate to represent that party. Primary voters should choose the best among those who are willing to put their name forward and avoid those whom they consider "mentally unhinged".

I worked at the RNC when Haley was the chairman. I can't tell you how many days our phones rang off the hook, usually due to something they heard on Rush that day, where the callers accused the RNC of picking Bob Dole over everyone else. The RNC was totally neutral in the primary and (this was in the very early days of company email) Haley sent an email to all staff telling us we'd have to resign if we did any kind of work, volunteer or paid, for any campaign. Sure, some folks had Pat Buchanan bumper stickers on their cubicle walls or what not. But Dole, love him or not, won that primary fair and square, and his fundraisers were the best in the business.

That said, I think we all knew on day one of his having locked up the nomination, he was gonna lose. But by then it was out of the RNC's hands. His staff moved into the bldg, took over some plumb office space and they called the shots then.

Sunday Talks, Harmeet Dhillon Discusses RNC Chair Outcome and Her View of Future

There is something quite hypocritical about Harmeet Dhillon criticizing the RNC over not winning elections yet taking millions in legal fees from the RNC and never winning an election related case.

Harmeet is as successful a lawyer for the RNC as the private corporation is at winning elections; yet for some reason, people choose not to see it.

Harmeet Dhillon is successful at collecting legal fees from the RNC club, and the RNC club is successful at collecting donor contributions from Wall Street, Hedge fund managers, corporations and billionaires. No one in this process has been successful at collecting ballots, because the club priorities have always been on the money gathering operations, Dhillon’s disingenuous claims notwithstanding.

In this interview segment, Dhillon talks about losing her bid for the RNC chair position, while also talking about the need for structural reform to the way the RNC operates. The fundamental change needed is accurately pointed out; however, you cannot change a system simply by retooling the same people who have been inside the system when the broken operations were created. Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon are cut from the same cloth.
WATCH:
Harmeet Dhillon: This is putting Republicans ‘behind the eight ball’



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The RNC gravy train is in fundraising, consulting, ad buying and legal services. The folks, usually contractors, who do that stuff get paid big money as a percentage of the bills they submit - ad buys, direct mail drops, money raised and legal work. I don't think it will ever happen, but if they really cared about turning things around, they'd make all bonuses contingent on winning elections. You could be their top fundraising consultant or ad buyer and earn millions in fees and bonuses without winning a single race. That needs to change so that the only goal is winning elections and doing whatever it takes to make that happen.