Politico: GOP State Party Orgs Near Collapse
Posted by Phoenix Woman on March 25, 2008
This is interesting:
At a time when the GOP presidential nominee will need more assistance than ever, a number of state Republican parties are struggling through troubled times, suffering from internal strife, poor fundraising, onerous debt, scandal or voting trends that are conspiring to relegate the local branches of the party to near-irrelevance.
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“After twelve years of being in power, you tend to get fat and lazy, and in some cases arrogant with respect to your positions,” said Saul Anuzis, chairman of the Michigan Republican party. “There is no doubt that we have had people who have gotten caught up in both illegal activities and immoral activities and none of that helps the party as a whole.
“If you go back to 2006 most people would agree that not only did we lose our brand, that we damaged our brand significantly,” Anuzis said. “We are clearly rebuilding.”
What’s happening is that the sane people are leaving the GOP. They’ve got a nice good look at what happens when the GOP’s base has free rein, and it’s not pretty. Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Howard Dean’s insistence on building up strong state Democratic party orgs paid off in 2006 and will pay even more dividends this year.
4 Responses to “Politico: GOP State Party Orgs Near Collapse”
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Michael said
GOP fall down go boom.
MEC said
It especially amuses me to see a quotation from Saul Anuzis. Rebuilding? Snicker.
garyB said
Society likes the look of socialism better than responsibility and idividual freedoms. Hence the GOP is losing groun to the democratic socialists.
Read your history… “when a republic can vote itself more and more collapse begins”
Watch the growth of the lower classes it tells you all you need to see where we are going.
Charles said
::sigh::
Gary, what in heaven’s name does this Paulian factoid have to do with the topic of the thread?
But, ok, let’s play History for $20. What caused the collapse of Athens? Was it too much democracy? Or was it the rise of the Athenian empire, the Peloponnesian War, the plague, and the disastrous invasion of Syracuse? And are we to take away from the decline of Athens the idea that military dictatorships (like Sparta) are the superior form of government?
And tell me, how is it different if “the public” can vote funds from the treasury vs. if banks can vote funds from the treasury? Or generals? Or commissars? Politics is the art of who gits. When the system allows the participation of many in that decision, it may or may not be better run, but it certainly is fairer and more transparent… and, as more transparent, less susceptible to corruption.
In short, I have read my history. It leads me to believe that people who imagine that lesser people should be excluded from decisions so that The Guardians can attend to the higher interests of the state are generally tyrants and thieves.
In the United States, they call themselves “Republicans,” and their hypocrisy would choke a goat.