Now you're talking. Let's get to work.
Now you're talking. Let's get to work.
Agree with both of you. We need to start working right now to give the American people a reason to vote for Republicans in 2008. We had some good candidates go down to defeat because of lack of message of NRSC, NRCC, and RNC. Trying to scare people why to vote for Republicans was the wrong tactic.
If any of you were involved in GOTV door hanging, want your opinion of the door hangar. I thought it was the wrong message especially in OK where we didn't have a Senate race. Using Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy, Dean on the entire hangar didn't get us any votes and in some of our precincts in the County I told them not to hand them out in close races where we needed Dem votes.
These door hangars didn't get us a vote and in fact, I got tracked down by some Republicans where we put them on the door to complain it was the wrong message because it was a scare tactic.
A statement of one of the reasons to vote Republican:
Howard Dean will make abortions more common.
Hope this explains to some on here why I am thoroughly disgusted with the leadership in the Repubican Party. Some of you need to open up your minds and listen to what people are saying instead of blindly following along. You don't win elections by the same old rhetoric, you win elections with a message that is pounded home day after day in districts around the Country.
There are some good ideas being bandied about by Freepers some of you won't pay attention to but you should. Too much of my way or no way on here after the election and before. Time for reasonable people to work together and come up with a clear message. We are various type of conservatives from fiscal to social and points in between, but if we don't learn to work together, then how can we ask people to allow us to govern. Ronald Reagan always said if you agree with someone 80% of the time, then that's enough. Time some of you think about that and quit alienating people you don't like. I have been just as guilty as anyone but we are in trouble if we keep on this track.
I have supported Pres Bush longer than most people on here because I got out and worked like a lot of other Texans for his 1994 Governor's campaign, but I draw the line about this election. The adoration of Karl Rove went so far overboard that I wanted to gag and I like the man.
There are no excuses because the Republican Party did not give voters a reason to keep them in power in close races and this door hangar was an example of poor planning. The MSM was against us but they have been for years so nothing has changed. You don't blindly follow anyone and make excuses which I am seeing on here. I have seen some good remarks from people on this site that get to the heart of the problem and there should be no excuses that a louzy campaign was run in a lot of areas.
In my state we had some pretty lame candidates running statewide that once again could not get on message. We kept the OK House for the first time back to back and only 3rd time in history and tied the OK Senate for the first time in history after 100 years of total Dim rule in the OK Senate. Why did our Reps/Senators do so well -- they had a message and vision for a better Oklahoma.
You give voters a message and they will respond. The door hangar that was designed by the RNC was a scare tactic and had no message that would attract voters. Waste of money. My more than two cents!