[lowbuck]

A good review of efforts to rebuild the Republican Party from the ground up.

As Tip O'Neil said "All politics is local". Let's see what develops in the Aloha State.

[jobim]

This article is written by a mainland guy perhaps taking a trip over here and talking to
some folks. Like Walter Duranty flying over to Russia & the Ukraine in the 1930s and
reporting for the NYT that there was absolutely no starvation in the Ukraine.

Ostrov is inept, the GOP is in freefall, they spend nothing on local races because they are paying staff and paying off a boondoggle property.

There really is no Hawaii GOP, and there will be no GOP victories in this next election.

[KyCats]

If you can make it past this sentence:

“The slide accelerated with the arrival of Hawaii-born Barack Obama on the national stage.”

You win a cookie.

[SoFloFreeper]

I hope they’re real Republicans and not RINOs.

[SoFloFreeper]

I hope they’re real Republicans and not RINOs.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

The truth will out in November. However, this state GOP is literally at rock bottom and has nowhere to go but up. A one-party state Senate is an anathema to representative governance.

Politics is dynamic, not static. Socialism is failing Hawaii, and like all populations under Socialist regimes the public gradually begins to get fed up. It will happen in Hawaii eventually. The question is, has that turn already occurred, or is it still in the future?

[Rockingham]

Weak state political parties have a practical reason to blossom anew when they have a President in power: the lure of federal patronage.

[Theodore R.]

About the only Republican of sorts that HI had for any length of tme was the late Senator Hiram Fong.

[Deplorable American1776]

I believe the GOP is going to surprise some ‘media professionals’ in blue states. I’d love to see Hawaii be a competitive state...and Connecticut might have some wins...

[TheNext]

Let Hawaiians suffer under oppressive taxes they voted for.

Double down on oppression.

Suffer Hawaii suffer, so that our states can look at your failure and avoid that.

Hawaii suffers so that we can live better.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Hawaii Republicans will succeed or fail based on one thing.

They will succeed if they embrace conservatism and run on it.

They will fail if they just give lip service to conservatism, yet try to run as “centrists” or “moderates”, “liberalism lite.”

This failure was pretty obvious in California, when the Republicans there decided to be liberals, not conservatives. And embracing liberalism, they are close to being extinct.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m not buying it.

Once a place goes Socialist there is no turning back.
The political dynamic becomes a series of debates between the Left and the Far Left. Going back to common sense is a non-starter because nobody wants to part with their goodies.

Any Republican who can actually get elected here will be so Liberal as to be useless to the rest of us.