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The head of the GOP national committee is Ronna Romney McDaniel. She is in the beginning of her third term and has overseen a lot of disappointing elections (2018, 2020, 2022, 2023). She is the face of the "Red Mirage" and not the "Red Tsunami," which GOP voters have been expecting. She has managed to buck the trend of the party out of power doing well in elections. She is the head of the Loser Party. She was named in last night's debate and Vivek Ramaswamy explicitly called her up on stage to resign. Should the GOP keep her or fire her?
I happened to catch an interview with her on today's Ruthless podcast. She says that 2023 losses were not her fault. The national GOP cannot spend in state contests or ballot initiatives (she implied there are laws). She says that every loss was because the candidate refused to discuss abortion (against her advice) and they let the Dems and other groups lie and say that the GOP candidate would implement a handmaid's tale type of hell. It is the Dems only issue and ignoring the lies was decisive, according to McDaniel. She also said the national GOP focuses on voter turnout and not issue ads.
In my opinion, the GOP exists to help candidates. The GOP needs to recruit, train, and help candidates with messaging, lawfare, and research. The national GOP should do national GOTV, platform messaging, and coordinate the state GOP offices. They need to advertise like Coke does. Whatever the GOP is doing, is not working well enough and something needs to be changed. Many people on Twitter are calling for her to be fired. What are your thoughts?
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She should be fired. I am sure she is a nice person; however, as noted 4 failures in a row. In addition to that she was not really able to capitalize on Biden's poor performance in 2022. It may be just bad luck; however, if a GM or Football head coach had her record they would be on the unemployment line. I think the same should go for RNC chair.
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Stick with me for a bit. When the Corvette was redesigned as a mid-engine potential supercar I read about the design team and the final product. The articles said that the Corvette group bought a used Ferrari 458(?) and took it apart to study it in detail. It was the benchmark for the new Corvette model. I've never driven the mid-engine model and probably never will, but reviews called it an Italian supercar at half the price. Their approach evidently worked. I guess they were in it to win.
What does this have to do with Ronna? I've read many articles describing how the Demo-rats have beaten the repubs. Several different reasons have been tagged as #1, but the list of reasons seems to differ mainly in the ranking. If the RNC knows what the Dems are doing to defeat them, why isn't it doing what the Corvette design team did? Go down the list of Demo-rat tactics, understand why each worked, and either copy them or try to neutralize them? Easier said than done I suppose, but I can't see any other option. Unless, of course, the plan is to be the perpetual minority party and fund raise by talking about the danger the other branch of the Uniparty presents.
I notice that my spam folder is filling up with requests for contributions. In fact, one says that Ronna nominated me for the "Lifetime Achievement Award" as a loyal GOPe supporter. Odd since with the exception 2000 I hadn't voted for a repub for president since 1988. Until 2020, that is.
They don't want to win
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Well, let's put it this way: what is your perception of the national GOP brand? Nevermind what she is or is not doing, when the Republican Party brand isn't popular with its own voters, change should be the default until there's new blood and new energy.
As to addressing a certain issue, interesting points raised here:
The stark reality is this: laws do not change the culture, laws reflect the culture. You want to end it, you have to be persuasive morally and culturally. I know people here are going to comment this shouldn't be necessary, that it's obvious. You are fighting against a culture that ranks the value of an individual by what groups they identify with, as opposed to his/her singular achievements. In fact, this opposition culture devalues achievement altogether.
The good news is a majority has always accepted there should be restrictions, but D's control the narrative and engage in their usual fearmongering. McDaniel is correct that GOP candidates cannot allow D's to do this.
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Let's assume that she is right that she was telling candidates what to do and they were ignoring her. That is on her. She isn't effective (except at losing) and thus is hurting the GOP at a national level.
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