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Our Grand Old Party is now led by a first class loser. We're doomed.
The GOP is lacking leadership. Our future looks very grim.
I wish Mr.Martinez would take the job fulltime, and give up his Senate seat. Anyone the Governor of Florida selected as a replacement would be an improvement over this mccain supporting RINO.
Maybe it was only a "handful" of the delegates who objected, but they may find out in '08 the extent of voter objection.
They still don't get it.
Ever so proud to be a Texan.
just damn!
He's correct, but doesn't even know it. The shift was in the Republican Party in congress. And the people were fed up. Again, Iraq is a straw man, an excuse for the RINOs to stay in denial.
Martinez is very sad proof that any message voters sent to DC, the Republicans certainly didn't get it. And proof that, unless there is some kind of epiphany forthcoming (no reason to expect that), the Democrats will add the White House to their stable.
The Republican Party has been deceiving itself for years thinking that it was winning, and would continue to win, because it was better. In reality, it was winning because the DIMs were bigger losers.
Do you want to know what they truly believe at the upper levels of the Republican Party? They believe they lost because we, the electorate are stupid and unappreciative of our betters. IOW, it's our fault. So there is no purpose in self examination on their parts.
Martinez and RINO Chuck 'Carlito' Hagel are among the most pro amnesty RINOs around.
Robert M. (Mike) Duncan
RNC General CounselRobert M. (Mike) Duncan was confirmed as General Counsel of the Republican National Committee in July 2002 and January 2005. He previously was elected Treasurer of the RNC in January 2001. Duncan, in his fourth term as National Committeeman from Kentucky, has served the party at every level from precinct captain, county chairman, state chairman, and national officer. He has been a delegate to the 1972, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Republican National Conventions and is one of the few persons ever to serve on the four standing convention committees. Duncan was elected chairman of the Convention Credentials Committee in 2000 after chairing the RNC Committee on Contests for the Convention. He served as General Counsel to the 2004 Convention.
Mike Duncan has worked for Republican candidates for local, state and national office for over thirty years. In 1998 he took a leave of absence from his business and chaired Jim Bunnings winning U.S. Senate race. Duncan is a long-time supporter and fundraiser for Senator Mitch McConnell and has worked in various campaign positions for Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. In 2000 he chaired the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Duncan was the Central States Chairman for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, working in Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Duncan chaired the transition team for Governor-Elect Ernie Fletcher, the first Republican elected Governor in Kentucky in 36 years.
A civic capitalist, Mike Duncan is active in numerous professional and nonprofit organizations. He served as chairman of a state university and a private college. President Bush appointed him to the Presidents Commission on White House Fellows in 2001 and nominated him to the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2005. Recently the U.S. Secretary of Commerce appointed Duncan to the Advisory Committee of the Strengthening Americas Communities Initiative. Duncan is a Trustee of the Christian Appalachian Project, the fifteenth largest private social services agency in America. Professionally, Duncan was President of the Kentucky Bankers Association and a Director of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Cincinnati Branch. In 1989-90, during a sabbatical, he worked in the Bush White House as assistant Director of Public Liaison. His public service has been recognized with several distinctions including honorary degrees from Cumberland College and the College of the Ozarks.
Mike Duncan and his wife Joanne are 1974 graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Law. They live in Inez, Kentucky and have one child, Rob, an Assistant United States Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. The Duncans are the principal owners of two community banks with five offices in eastern Kentucky. Their student-mentoring program, in its twenty
As long as this party remains pro-amnesty, my wallet will remain closed.
GOP is no longer the party of angry white men it seems. Where are we to go?
It's hard for me to believe that we will continue to support and elect people that will give our country away. America, as we knew it, is no more. Face the facts folks; in twenty years we will be living in a much different land.
Grand Old Pusses
Are there pods in the basement of the White House? WTF is going on? We stuck with the Republicans, but they haven't stuck with us. We better get used to being on the losing side of elections for a long time.
It wouldn't take much for me to jump ship for a REAL conservative party. I won't live long enough for someone to be able to repair the damage they've done just in the last 2 years.
Michael Steele or CA state Senator Tom McClintock should have gotten the job.
Not quite right, he was against amnesty before he was elected, for it after he won. Basically he just lies.
"In agreeing to take on the role of general chairman, Martinez said he made it clear to Bush and other party leaders that his primary responsibility would be as Florida's junior senator and that he did not intend to travel around the country every weekend raising money and making speeches."
Which is why this is a no-substance appointment.