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The Republican Party Must Adapt to Win
townhall.com ^ | 1/17/2023 | Harmeet Dillon

Posted on 01/17/2023 9:13:18 AM PST by rktman

The election for RNC Chairman on January 27 will be a referendum on two of the Republican Party’s foundational ideals: personal responsibility and accountability. After six years of losses and increasingly alienated voting and donor bases demanding change, our party needs fresh leadership, new vision, and fundamental changes to fulfill our promise to stakeholders.

With over 35 years of service and success in the conservative movement, I’m running for Chair of the RNC because the GOP must change or be relegated to permanent also-ran status. I’m committed to redefining what we count as success – and it isn’t more attempted voter contacts – it’s actually winning elections.

Democrats have out-raised us, out-organized us, out-performed us, and even out-lawyered us, consistently for years. Meanwhile, our base – the voters who knock on doors and write the small-dollar checks, are demoralized. Larger donors we count on to fund major programs have clearly expressed their support for change at the RNC too.

My first priority as RNC Chair will be to earn back the trust of our base through transparency and by applying the kind of fiscal conservatism that was once our hallmark.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
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No more romney influence!
1 posted on 01/17/2023 9:13:18 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

transparent fiscalliness ...SOUNDS good.

Are you going to end Obamacare ,too? oops..i guess they forgot they were going to do that?


2 posted on 01/17/2023 9:16:35 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: rktman

No. Doing the right thing is not something that “being worth it” matters. Don’t feed an amoral system by adapting to it. Make your case and rip it out by the roots. Salt the earth in which it grew. Improve on mankind.


3 posted on 01/17/2023 9:17:07 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: rktman

Opposing article:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4123994/posts


4 posted on 01/17/2023 9:17:27 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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As if a Republican prez who gave us mail in ballots, masking, big pharma billions bumpstock bans and Syrian rapefugees is not left enough.
He is a more accomplished leftist than Biden.


5 posted on 01/17/2023 9:17:53 AM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: rktman

Dhillon seems to be the only alternative to McDaniels - if she will finally start moving the Republican Party toward competing with the Democrats on vote-by-mail and early voting, then she must replace McDaniels. McDaniels has stood around scratching her head and doing nothing while the Democrats have used ballot harvesting to run off with the last two national elections.


6 posted on 01/17/2023 9:18:57 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rktman

Change?
You mean like actually acting on the promises that they’ve campaigned and fund raised on for 50 years?
Yeah, that would be positive change!


7 posted on 01/17/2023 9:22:32 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: Leep

Go Harmeet, a true patriot.


8 posted on 01/17/2023 9:23:22 AM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: rktman

Part of “learning how to adapt” may very well be learning how to cheat as effectively as the Democrats do. Few of us are willing to stoop that low.


9 posted on 01/17/2023 9:25:00 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: rktman

The DOJ/FBI is working overtime to ensure the GOP remains the compliant, controlled-opposition, junior party of the Deep State

Any and all organizations promoting salient, energizing GOP issues from anti-abortion, to traditional marriage, to gun rights, to elimination of entire Federal Departments - will be infiltrated and suppressed.

the 2009 Tea Party movement was the LAST organic, grass-roots conservative movement you will see for a long time.

Obama and Holder made sure of that.


10 posted on 01/17/2023 9:29:06 AM PST by PGR88
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To: momincombatboots

A Republican President gave us Mail In Ballots? Really? He set those voting rules up in all 50 states during the covid nonsense? He’s the one that did that? All by himself? You mean that the state legislatures, Governors and State SOSs played no role in any of that? I was under the impression that the whole ‘voting and election stuff’ were state matters.

I believe there’s a case at the Supreme Court, this very moment, that goes into exactly that. Hmmmmmm. All these years I always thought the states handled all of that, didn’t know the President did.

As for masking and big pharma billions, pretty easy to Monday Morning Quarterback from the safety of your home or office. I guess you didn’t hear about the little tidbit in Birx’s book where she stated how they were all lying to the President and making things up. But I guess if you, being the medical research genius that you are, were in charge you would have put everyone in their place, while dealing with: getting the economy going again, re-election, impeachment, and all the other things they would have thrown at you.

As for bumpstocks....bullsh*t gimmick for fatasses at the range. Nothing more.


11 posted on 01/17/2023 9:30:38 AM PST by qaz123
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To: rktman

My first priority as RNC Chair will be to earn back the trust of our base through transparency and by applying the kind of fiscal conservatism that was once our hallmark.

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This is what the loser RNC has always done. This is nothing new. The strategy is simple: Stay just to the Right of Dems on spending (which is easy to do.) Abandon cultural/national issues like border enforcement, religious liberty, and big businesses’ assault on political speech. Sorry, but this is a big yawn-burger.


12 posted on 01/17/2023 9:32:58 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: alstewartfan

Are you sure about that? Or is she just another RINO/GOPe/UNIPARTY alternative to Romney’s niece?

If we wanted someone better, I would be suggesting Zeldin but he was dispatched rather quickly. The powers that be don’t want anyone that can think for themselves.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/29/hired-by-the-rnc-harmeet-dhillon-teams-up-with-the-mitch-mcconnell-contracted-enforcer-who-destroyed-the-tea-party/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/13/rnc-chair-candidate-brags-about-bagging-another-whale/


13 posted on 01/17/2023 9:38:34 AM PST by qaz123
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To: rktman

BS. All the GOP has to do to win is flood Republican voters with mail in ballots. It’s working like a champ for the RATS.


14 posted on 01/17/2023 9:41:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Spay and neuter your "migrants" and liberals.)
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To: qaz123

You have a solid point. Love Zeldin, a proven fighter.


15 posted on 01/17/2023 9:42:34 AM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: alstewartfan

I agree. And anyone that could come that close in NY, with all the cheating and fraud that has been going on there for decades, must be doing something right.


16 posted on 01/17/2023 9:45:25 AM PST by qaz123
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To: rktman

Yaaaay


17 posted on 01/17/2023 9:59:56 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: rktman

Two sides of the same coin. Ronna and Harmeet were a tag team on twitter during the midterms. Harmeet and her team of lawyers were supposed to be boots on the ground in AZ. They left town while Maricopa was still counting and went silent or changed the subject on twitter. The RNC has paid Dhillon Law Group close to a million dollars in the past year. “Harmeet Dhillon is a Republican National Committee member from California”

It’s a club and you ain’t in it.


18 posted on 01/17/2023 10:03:24 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Leep
Are you going to end Obamacare ,too? oops..i guess they forgot they were going to do that?

You wrongly assume it was the job of the RNC to do the job of those elected to do it. Simple mistake to make. For a Liberal.
19 posted on 01/17/2023 10:35:34 AM PST by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: Pollard

I for sure ain’t one of the kool kids. 😂👍


20 posted on 01/17/2023 10:43:55 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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