NCGOP whistling past the graveyard

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Soon-to-be-ex-congressman Richard Hudson was on Lara Trump’s Fox show just before the election saying – seriously – that neither he nor the GOP majority were in trouble.  (Both were. BIG TIME.)

Rookie congressman Addison McDowell apparently didn’t see his loss coming.  He was out in eastern North Carolina campaigning for Laurie Buckhout. 

David Rouzer and Greg Murphy did not see Tuesday coming.  They had to scramble to put together defensive measures just weeks before the vote.  *Nobody in charge had a clue. Not one.*

NCGOP state chairman Jason Simmons apparently surveyed the carnage from Tuesday and came to the conclusion that we need TWO MORE YEARS OF HIM:

It sounds like his plans to run off from this mess to a DC job have *blowed up.*  

In certain Asian cultures, failure of this scale warrants a prompt resignation or perhaps, hari-kari.   But we’re not talking about men of honor here.  We’re talking about entitled white boys with no shame. 

Knowing the crowd in Raleigh the way I do, I would not be surprised if they fight to keep lil’ Jason.  This is the same group of people who were warned about Harvey West back in 2012 and did nothing.  Now, Harvey has more name recognition statewide than Michael Whatley does.

The state party chairmanship and the campaign management basically got sub-contracted out to DC and the RNC.  There was no rapid-response or any similar communications operation. The alleged fundraising operation to help the judicial candidates was basically one big Potemkin village.

Snatch the political and fundraising resources away from the legislative caucuses.  Those organizations were originally created because the folks back home were getting a wee bit too uppity. Candidate recruitment and funding and strategy need to be returned as much as possible to the state and local parties.  The current caucus setup just invites corruption.

The NCGOP ought to be helping the entire ticket.  Not just the legislators. Get elected officials out of the party votes.  It’s not about catering to the elected.

Nobody was out there pushing the amendments.  They could have been a helluva GOTV technique for drawing out angry, frustrated conservatives.  Those conservative measures passed overwhelmingly while the  NCGOP ticket crashed and burned.  (Maybe it was a good thing Raleigh didn’t sink its claws into them.)

There was no significant GOTV effort anywhere. Certainly not one led by the state organization.

All the gains of 2010 have been washed away.  And the crowd whose bumbling and grifting facilitated  it all want to hang around for at least two more years.

There is a lot of wreckage to clean up.  And we’re going to need a lot of fresh eyes and fresh legs to do it.  Nobody who was in power on Election Day needs to stay there.  We need new party officers and new legislative leadership.  What’s been there and driven us to this catastrophe HAS TO GO. 

Changing the state party starts now.  Go to your precinct meetings and make your thoughts known.  Most county conventions are in March.  Get yourself there and get elected as a delegate to the state.  Like-minded people in those positions can make the needed changes at the state level.

This junior-high, clique-ish, Mean Girls stuff has got to stop.  Are we truly the fiscally-responsible party?  Do we really believe in transparency and fighting corruption?  We need to walk the walk and talk the talk.

The current crowd running the party doesn’t care and will not take up that fight.