The person running the party will not be the presidential candidate, we need someone with the polished tone of a Reagan to start the conervative movement (which has disappeared with our current leadership). OBama won because his B.S. captured the young people (and the stupid...).
First we need a great leader to step forward, and then the others will hopefully follow. I am sure there are some potential leaders out there besides Palin and Jindal, who would make better candidates in a few years.
I too was for Thompson but felt he did not inspire many in his campaign.
“The person running the party will not be the presidential candidate, we need someone with the polished tone of a Reagan to start the conervative movement (which has disappeared with our current leadership). OBama won because his B.S. captured the young people (and the stupid...).
First we need a great leader to step forward, and then the others will hopefully follow. I am sure there are some potential leaders out there besides Palin and Jindal, who would make better candidates in a few years.
I too was for Thompson but felt he did not inspire many in his campaign.”
The best thing we could have is someone who can get up and articulate conservative principles well. Thompson has shown that he can do that. He also is UNLIKELY to be using the position to advance his own personal candidacy for anything. (as opposed to Newt, who is, if nothing else, a tireless self-promoter) Party Chairman is an ideological post. They have managers and such below them for administrative detail, and fundraisers who do their thing. Chairmen are the ones who lay out the direction the party should take. In my opinion, Fred would be ideal for that.Heck, he was doing so with his commentaries before the campaign even started, on Paul Harvey’s radio show. He’s also quite good at playing the attack dog when necessary, yet doing so WITHOUT being overtly offensive. He’s almost ideal for this position, should he want to take it. To nominate Palin as co-chair (per the bylaws stated) would boost HER standing within the party insiders, who were problematic for her during this recent election.
We need to keep our Great Leaders (though I despise the term, as having been used for Kim il Sung) for candidates to put in office. We need conservative ideologues running the party and keeping it true to its ideals. Candidates can be inspirational, and that’s fine. We need good conservatives at the party level to keep them on the straight and narrow, and keep the prinicples to the forefront.
I still think there are those within the party “elite” who hold Palin’s reforms in Alaska (getting rid of some crooks and beating Frank Murkowski) against her.Certainly it would explain at least some of the attacks against her from the inside.