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Michael Steele running for RNC chair!!!!!!!!!

Posted by AFIS Guy on Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:22:34 PM
     Michael Steele for RNC chairperson!!!!!!!!!!!!!     This is probably the best thing that could happen for the GOP!  The last two years, this party has given the American people reason not to hire Democrats to lead, but to fire Republicans!  This is still a center-right country and Republican ideals and policies are still the best for this country and to rescue it from an economic downturn and for national security.  Pundits all say that the GOP is a white-man's party and that it is going nowhere if it remains so - well, here is our future!  Minorities like Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal, and with women like Sarah Palin give our party a chance to break the old mold and to reach out to new people.  Our GOP tent has to be big enough to include those GOP moderates, such as Charlie Crist and even the Governator, that although they believe in issues such as climate change, still cling to hard-core traditional beliefs like lower taxes and smaller government.  With the election of Michael Steele as chairman of the RNC, maybe other black conservatives (and some liberals) and even younger people will see conservatism as an alternate ideology to what the liberal left has to offer.  Steele will give them an opportunity to at least look at our party and what it represents!   We still have a long way to go to gain back the trust of the American people, but now that future looks a little brighter.  2010 does not look so far away right now!
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A historical look at the last election

Posted by AFIS Guy on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:22:51 PM
Hi Gang!  This is my first blog and I hope you like what you see here.  Here I go:
 
     For all of those who are disappointed over the results of the last election and are trying to blame either Governor Palin or Senator McCain, just stop right now.  History has shown us that in a time of economic crisis, the party in charge of the White House has always lost the next Presidential election.  It happened in 1980 when Carter lost to Reagan, in 1992 when Bush Sr. lost to Clinton, again in 2000 when Gore lost to Bush W., and now when McCain lost to Obama.  The irony of it is that any other Democrat versus any other Republican would have won by about 20 percentage points.  Obama, with all his baggage and socialistic tendencies, was probably the worst candidate the Dems could have run, even with the Media completely in the tank for him and his $700 million plus war chest, he still only won by 6 points.  McCain, like him or not, was our best shot at keeping the White House. 
      Also, if past history is any indication, the party out of power almost always regained some seats in Congress the following mid-term elections.  Newt and the Repubs took over in 1994 and even the Dems took control back of Congress in 2004 after W. got reelcted, so there is some hope there! 
     But alas, here comes the bad news.  We in the Republican party need to have a close look at why we lost elections and need to look to new leadership for the party.  Unlike Dems, we kick our bad apples out (ex Foley (R) vs Jefferson (D)) and go find new ones.  No longer can we be the party of the Foleys, the Delays, the Stevens; our party has to be the party of the Bobby Jindals, of Michael Steeles, of the Sarah Palins.  We need to find new blood waiting in the wings to take on Congress in 2010.  I urge our conservative brothers to have hope and that we must come together to find these new blood that will resurrect our party to the greatness it once was.
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