Racicot Ordering Layoffs At RNC

DRUDGE ^ | 2/5/02

[areafiftyone]

Bob Noval reported on CNN Monday: "It turns out that the new Republican national chairman, Marc Racicot, is the grim reaper. He has cut the budget at the Republican National Committee by 20 percent. And he has caused a lot of people to be laid off, calling them in and telling them they are finished.

"He has also reviewed all the budget contracts there and eliminated a lot of them. Guess who got the ax? Joe Gaylord, remember him, Newt Gingrich's right-hand man? He had a longtime contract at the National Committee. He is gone."

Novak continued: "All this indicates that the Republican National Committee was not -- under Governor Jim Gilmore in the last year was not in the good graces of the White House. And Racicot is now using the knife."

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[BibChr]

Great. Start with yourself, y'stinking "moderate."

Dan

[John Hines]

how many elections ya gonna win without any moderates?

worse than that, who are conservative guys gonna date/marry if we insist on "no moderates"? or, is the rule "no moderate guys"? (sounds like a violation of Title IX to me!)

[BibChr]

To the second, LOL. Happily for me, if anything my wife is sometimes to MY right!

To the first, who asked him to leave? Just don't lead! Leave that to someone who HAS figured out that there is no Constitutional right to butcher inconvenient or imperfect babies.

Dan

[vbmoneyspender]

What's your definition of a moderate? In Racicot's case he vetoed at least one tax cut that the legislature passed while he was governor of Montana. Is that your definition of a moderate - i.e. someone who is against tax cuts?

[Paul Ross]

As Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe, Collins, Arlen Specter, John McCain and other RINOs etc have proved, when self-styled 'Moderates' win, AMERICA loses. With 'friends' like these, who needs enemies? It really is time for the GOP to get serious about winning on ideology, or that is the end. Ideology is the only 'win' that counts. The elective offices in the hands of duplicitous, lying Fifth Columnist RAT-wannabes are just as effectively in the hands of the open, above-board enemies. Indeed, more so.

[Harrison Bergeron]

Any word on a merger with the DNC?

[Paraclete]

Haven't you heard? That took place years ago.

[BlackElk]

Do you want your kids to marry folks who are "moderately" heterosexual, "moderately" faithful, or "moderately" sober? If you had a retail business, do you want "moderately" honest cashiers? If the Republican Party is going to degenerate into nothing more than a fiscally "moderate" party which wants to "moderately" maximize business contacts with and trade surplus subsaidies to Red China and which will "moderately" avoid social policy trends that make the old Visigoths look like cloistered nuns, the GOP need not expect to receive votes from its backbone social conservative constituency.

[Malcolm]

Just like other conservatives, I want an ultra-conservative GOP, and I'll always strive for that. But like the above poster noted, the conservatives do not have the numbers needed to elect a like-minded gov't. So we have to deal with moderates, both inside and outside the GOP. We need to keep constant pressure on the GOP to that end, but at the end of the day, we are not going to get our way each and every time. The above mentioned RINOs are indeed a pain in the posterior, but have to play the cards we are dealt. What I fear is that conservatives will split their vote several different ways, all in the name of "principle," not realizing the implications, and thereby put Democrats in office. I do not suffer from the myopia of other short-sided conservatives; there IS a difference between moderate Republicans and any Democrat, even Zell Miller of my state. Conservatives should be principled, but also realistic. Failure to do so elects Democrats, which no true conservative would prefer to most any Republican you could name. We need to be more shrewd, and less intolerant. We are at a point where the GOP can assume majority status if we play our cards right. Childishness and intolerance, in the guise of principle, will keep our enemies in power, and keep us even more marginalized than we already are, which could not possibly be the goal of any conservative worth the name.....

[LarryLied]

Canada is a good example of what you speak. Liberals run everything and there is no hope on the horizon that things will ever change up there.

[KC_Conspirator]

Now logical and thoughtful talk like that will only get you flamed on FR! ;-)

Regardless, the bottom line for the RNC is help the party win elections, whether they are moderate or cosnervatives. Gilmore clearly could not do that, although he raised a good amount of money.

[SoDak]

Just because you and I only agree on 85% of an agenda doesn't mean we're not on the same side. I'd like the opportunity to be a purist, but it's not realistic. I can't even agree 75% of the time with my girlfriend, how can you get a majority of the electorate to agree with 100% of the plank?

[Lyford]

As Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe, Collins, Arlen Specter, John McCain and other RINOs etc have proved, when self-styled 'Moderates' win, AMERICA loses.

Well, if we could replace 1 liberal Democrat with 1 liberal Republican, Orrin Hatch would be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee instead of Pat Leahy. So, in that regard, I'd much rather have (as a Mainer) Snowe and Collins, loathsome though they are, than the alternative, which would be actual Democrats, and more support for Daschle. Would I rather have actual conservatives? Obviously. That's not going to happen in Maine right now.

[hchutch]

Agreed. Too many "my way or the highway types" on both sides of the aisle have caused the GOP trouble.

[Lazamataz]

Racicot Ordering Layoffs At RNC

Missed one.

[Lazamataz]

Any word on a merger with the DNC?

LOL! It's funny, because it's true!!!

[hchutch]

The key is to upgrade when Collins and Snowe retire, although both have A ratings from the NRA. So, other than abortion, there's probably no beef I'd have with them.

The fact is, Treffinger is an upgrade over Torricalli in NJ. So, I'll go with him there. Ditto for Ganske over Harkin.

Perfect, in this case, is the enemy of good enough.

[Landru]

"He has cut the budget at the Republican National Committee by 20 percent."

Many of our contributions which dried-up in response to the lousy leadership are indeed having an effect.

...gotta read between the lines; but, that's probably as close to the truth as we're gonna get.

[Willie Green]

LOL! It's funny, because it's true!!!

Gallows humor.

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