Posted on 11/14/2006 7:54:28 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers
Robert 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 Bunning’s 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 President’s 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 America’s 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 Duncan’s are the principal owners of two community banks with five offices in eastern Kentucky. Their student-mentoring program, in its twenty-eighth year, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in the Los Angeles Times.
Perhaps you might consider the possible fact that the Republican Party is already split asunder. That is waht last weeks election shows. The conservative voter stayed home or voted third party, because the RINOs prevented the accomplishment of the mandate on a conservative agenda, thanks to the RINOs and the gang of 14.
The split has already happened, and the only way iot CAN be mended is if a leader steps forward to promote the conservbative agenda.
Republicans have to run as Republican conservatives, not as panty-waist RINOs.If that mending does not happen, you will be watching the inauguration of Hillery Moonbat Clinton as the president of the United States in the early months of 2009.
Those are the base facts, and to ignore them is to have the Republican Party sequestered even further from the halls of power.The Dems know this, they believe they themselves have put and end to the conservative agenda, and they are betting that all of their machinations against Tom Delay and others, abuse of the courts in Texas, the use of the MSM media to lie to America,and baseless investigations against Karl Rove and others has cowered America's conservatives permanently. Maybe they are right. The Dems certainly created enough RINO A$$HOLE politicians in the process, who we now must get rid of in the primaries.
Its time for the RNC to again cultivate Republican conservatives, becuse if they do not, the Republican Party will again be toasted in 2008.
So enough caterwalling RNC, get with the plan, and make Tom DeLay your point man, and give him the money and resources to beat the false rap in Texas.
I'll put it this way: In a tidal wave year for democrats, Mike Steele was able to receive in a very blue state a significant percentage more of the vote than Santorum (God bless him) in a less blue state and Harris in a red state. And Steele is no RINO. He is 100% pro-life, for traditional marriage, and fiscally conservative. His AA stance is qualified, not blanket.
I don't get it. Why not just make him the RNC Chairman for real?
Nice catch! I would like to know more about that too.
Love the tagline. =)
I read on another thread that Martinez has said the RNC won't back anyone in the primaries for 2008 that he'll let the field play itself out.
That is the only bright lining I can find to his nomination and they better hold to it. Santorum lost because of their stupid little game in PA. He went into his '06 race badly hurt by it and up against the Casey-legacy.
They also refused to support Graf because he beat their man in the primaries. How petty can you get. -_-
All the dirty party politics is why most people refuse to get involved. Maybe that's the way they like it.
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I don't know much about Mark Sanford. I will have to look into him more.
I concur. Bush needs a vacation on the Ranch.
First Rummy Resignation
Second Gates-Baker nomination
Third Bush/Dem bipartisanship
Fourth Steele gets dissed via Rove
Fifth Martinez nomination
Hey President Bush step away from the edge of the cliff!!! T^T
So far two people in the Republican Party have gotten the message.
Gingrich who is trying to get Repubs to have some strategy meetings before they pick new leadership.
Mike Pence who has announced his intentions to run for House Minority Leader and also issued a Vision statement for how to handle the new Dem majority.
People have got to realize that Bush is not running in 2008 and we've got to get New Leaders.
Please do so. =) Just so you know I was refering to your Santorum '08 tag.
I knew that (even though I had already changed my tag back).
He needs to really get some name recognition and FAST! Nobody knows him. I never heard of him until two weeks ago. He sounds good, but he should start hitting the airwaves so that he could win.
Conservatives have to stop this "palatable candidate" B.S. and start voting for REAL conservative Republicans in the primaries! That was my motivation for voting for Alan Keyes in 2000.
No offense but that did not get you very far. I think McCain will be the closest to a conservative that we will get. If people would give him a chance, they will find him to be very conservative on social issues and he has a chance to win.
I am not convinced that he would have been a conservative. He made me to nervous when he called himself a Democrat. I know part of it was for Maryland's sake, but who knows how he would have voted in the Senate.
You and me both. I won't be coerced into voting for the "lesser of two evils" because I will be held accountable for that by a Higher Authority. You and I are not responsible for results - that is in God's hands. We're responsible for doing the right thing.
Let's wait and see before we start slammin' Sen. Martinez or the GOP for 'pandering'.
At the very least, the GOP must start using every single quiver in their bow and arrow set if they expect to defeat the Democratic lunatics in 2008 and beyond.
You are a breath of fresh air!
Mike Duncan is a personal friend of mine and a brilliant political strategist. We will NOT be disappointed with his efforts.
Being from KY, I can tell you that Mitch McConnell is probably the reason for Mike's selection. He has been a right hand man to Mitch for years.
I belive that Mitch does understand what it is about and will move us in the "Right" no pun intended direction.
Thanks for the reassurance. There is a lot about him in this post that sounds really good. I used to live in northeast KY and it was a depressing place. It sounds like Mr. Duncan thought of a very creative way to make things better in a bad place.
I doubt though that Martinez is going to be much help to Mr. Duncan.
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