Visions of DC dancing in his surrender-monkey head
It’s apparently official. The NCGOP’s chairman, Michael Whatley is one of THREE candidates for vice-chairman of The Republican National Committee. *Incredible.*
Establishment politics — both parties — is notorious for rewarding and promoting under-achievers and out-and-out failures. On the Democrat side, Jimmy Carter is regularly hailed as the “best ex-president ever.” After months and years of stabbing conservative candidates in the back and sabotaging conservative proposals, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are again elevated to party leadership roles on Capitol Hill. Despite the transformation of the ‘red-wave’ into a trickle, the RNC’s incumbent chairman Ronna McDaniel is being roundly hailed for a second term.
Let’s examine the Whatley era in Raleigh. There are now MORE Democrats in our congressional delegation since 2010. GOP registration in the state has declined as a percentage of the overall population of registered voters. Party fundraising is down $300K+ over the last year. He’s pretty well admitted that this is NOT a GOP state, and that there’s little to nothing that can be done about it.
Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have been thumbing their nose at the party and its platform, while Whatley and his cronies have sat idly by.
Legislators on Jones Street, despite their majorities, have surrendered to Roy Cooper and caved on things like parental rights in schools, Medicaid expansion, taxes, and the size of government.
The NCGOP had little to show in the fight against the horrible election laws / foisted on us by Roy and his gargoyles. Those rules / laws did a real number at the ballot box on Republican candidates.
And THIS guy is a serious candidate for a national party office.
The RNC has never, never, never been about conservatism. It’s always been controlled by what was once known as ‘Rockefeller Republicans’ — people who are registered with the R because ‘mummy and daddy’ were, as were their ‘chums’ at private boarding school and at the country club. These people hate, hate, hate the ‘unwashed’ church-goers who shop at Wal-Mart and show concern over *silly things* such as child-grooming and abortion on-demand.
Government spending doesn’t bother them. In their eyes, you can’t spend too much. To them, it’s actually all about chairing the committees that hand all that money out and being in position to scoop up the lobbyist cash.
Conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms made the GOP competitive in places like North Carolina. The country-clubbers will throw a few conservative sounding words out on the campaign trail to soothe some of the ‘unwashed.’
But as soon as the votes are counted, and they are sent back for another term, they can get back to singing kumbayah and playing patty-cake with their drinking and golf buddies on ‘the other side of the aisle.’
Whatley does not deserve a promotion. McDaniel does not deserve reelection. But both will likely get exactly what they want.
Conservatives can continue to gripe and moan while these people keep selling them out to the big-spending special interests. Or they can go on offense and take control of the party. As things stand, we will continue to be ignored by the powers in Raleigh and DC as business-as-usual rolls right along. If you care about the future of the state and the party, you’re going to have to get off your rump and take it to these weasels. Get in their faces with tactics and words they can clearly understand.
It would take every cuss word I know ,plus some new ones, to describe the level of betrayal I feel towards Rinos.
To think that the grassroots effort that has painted NC red , from the TParty days til present, is seen as a purple result by the NC GOP Ch is a bit of an insult.
You don’t go along to get along and win the Constitutional war we find ourselves in.
AT HEART Americans bleed red not purple. Red is RIGHT. Purple is wrong. Get used to it.
Dare GOP Ch
Only has to watch Congress last night to get the clear, concise picture. That Z travels to USA, addresses Congress (in Army fatigues…look fascist to me, aka Castro) and ALL of Congress are clapping seals…..
Yet last wk his wife was in Paris, Christmas shopping I suppose? Guess she can return and finish.
I can’t contain the rage I have from every member of US Congress and the WH right now. But, allow me to have pd thousands in taxes already and ante up more thousands in April, 2023 to support the world and continue the USA decline. I care less what happens to Z or Ukraine.
Several things conservatives can do: open low-cost private schools like the Thales Academies as my wife and I did in Apex. All one needs to find is a few acres in areas with young families. Donate the land to Thales and they handle the rest. Thales accepts zero government help and is immune from its meddling. See also the new Thales College in Wake Forest for a low-cost, non-woke alternative to higher education. Reduce government school enrollment and you suck the life out of a large employer of leftists and weaken the crony government school industry that finances Democrat and RINO campaigns. Promote apprenticeships instead of college to weaken universities, another source of the left‘s strength. Declare your county a “Marriage Sanctuary” to aid Christians and their churches and their businesses that will now come under attack thank you Burr and Tillis voting for same-sex marriage (an oxymoron). All these strong conservative actions can be done outside the political realm and cost very little.
Rona McDaniel has underperformed in three straight elections – 2018, 2020, and 2022. The RNC should not reward failure. Ronna Romney McDaniel should be held to her promise NOT to run for a fourth term. As in baseball, three strikes and she ought to be OUT. Both of the other two candidates have a whole lot more to offer.
We had the issues on our side in 2022, but we lost through very poor messaging from the McLeadership – McDaniel, McConnell, and McCarthy. RNC was AWOL in messaging and missed some things they could have done. What messaging McConnell did was actually harmful to the cause. McCarthy at least tried but it was very poorly executed. What we needed was a clean slate not warmed over losers.
Another area McDaniel is AWOL is on the current omnibus fiasco going through Congress. This is a scheme by Schumer, Biden, and McConnell to neuter the new GOP House majority on its most important power, the power of the purse, for its first year. Any effective party leader would be all over McConnell and his RINO allies, privately first, and if that did not work, then publicly to stop his collusion with the Democrats on the omnibus travesty. McDaniel is doing nothing on that. Why? Is it because one of McConnell’s sellout allies is her uncle Mitt Romney???
Haven’t heard who else is running for vice chairman, but who wins the chairmanship is light years more important.
The linked article details all three VC candidates.
North Carolina is a “red” state. A good litmus test is how citizens vote for their elected judges and justices. Note- the last two election cycles Republicans were 14-0 in statewide judicial races. That wasn’t because of NCGOP heroics; but rather, because we finally began putting an “R” beside their names on the ballot. A “red” state elects Republican judges and justices.
A “red” state repeatedly elects a Republican majority in both the state House and Senate. It isn’t evenly divided; no, NC Senate Republicans have a supermajority, and House Republicans are just one vote short of a supermajority. Nothing “purple” about that.
A “red” state elects a majority of Council of State seats. Republicans control all NC Council of State seats except for Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Auditor. At least two of those few seats currently held by democrats are likely to go “Republican” in 2024. That’s what “red” state voters will do.
The only thing that’s “purple” about this state is the fact that our NCGOP leaders refuse to close our primaries, allowing up to 2.7 million unaffiliated citizens to vote in the Republican primaries, regardless of their political leanings. This means unaffiliated voters have a very strong (perhaps the strongest) impact on which candidates Republicans are putting on the ballot for the general election every two years. There is no incentive for voters to join or contribute to the Republican Party, until and unless they wish to seek party positions or to run for office. That’s why the GOP percentage of registrations in the state is declining, not growing. Records show that we have declined from 34.4% of the state’s registrations in January 2004 (when the NC General Assembly was democrat-controlled and most statewide elected officials were democrats) to barely 30.0% of registrations today, despite virtual Republican dominance in all three branches of state government.
North Carolina is indeed a “red” state masquerading as a “purple” state under the leadership of country club Republicans who enjoy the moderate image and prefer electing federal officials like Thom Tillis and Richard Burr. Until North Carolina conservatives seize control of the Republican Party and help displace moderate-to-left leaning elected officials, there will be no resurgence of party registrations. We will continue struggling to defeat leftist candidates with strong financial backing in vitally important state and federal races. That isn’t because we are “purple;” rather, that is because we tolerate leftist behaviors of our elected officials and because we refuse to let the true colors of North Carolina show through.
What is even worse than open primaries is open primaries with a 30% threshold to win the primary. That is a recipe for diasaster. It is one of the bad policies pushed through by our establishment GOP “leadership” of Moore and Berger through a sneaky last minute “committee substitute”. Restoring a majority threshold to win a primary should be a big priority for conservatives, as should be getting Biden Republicans Moore and Berger replaced by real Republicans.
It takes a real ncgop chairman to demand a change to our primaries and that we do not have. Conservatives are stupid if they think staying in THIS party is worth it, time to form our own!
We do tolerate a lot. One of those things is that phenomena so prevalent in our state Republican conventions where the leading vote getters at the conventions do not win because of weighted voting and other suspect gyrating maneuvering blocking the will of the actual delegates in attendance. We need to throw the thugs off the stage and have a real convention. If we can’t muster up the strength for that then we should take Toxhandler’s advice.
voting at state level should be 1 per county with 70% of the counties majority to win
The biggest counties should not have any advantage over the smaller ones at state level … Each county votes to get their own majority and then they cast the vote that way to be tallied in the state total
I was thinking more in terms of one attending delegate gets one delegate vote and the majority of attending delegate votes wins the day. But, after reflecting on what you propose, I could go with that too. Either way is better than what we are doing now.
Also, those hand-held voting devices need to be thrown into a bonfire. The tech weasels in the back of the room telling us how our county delegations are voting while we in the delegations are scratching our heads wondering why it’s not adding up, need to be escorted to the exits and kicked to the curb.
We want paper ballots for real elections. Why should we put up with these would-be Dominion types for convention voting? Paper ballots and roll call of the counties has always been the transparent way and verifiable to do things. If they try to do this crap to us again, we need a motion from the floor to junk it and go with paper ballots in the counties and then a roll call of counties.
There are at least two convention races where I heard a lot of chatter where many delegates simply did not believe the announced results of the Dominion-style voting. The same is true of a standing vote for National Committeewoman some years ago.
I checked the website of the outfit that handled the voting at the Greenville convention, and nothing on it gave any names of who ran the company or where the company was even located. It could well have been in China.
And remember the knucklehead who first came up with these lame electronic voting systems? Dallas Woodhouse.