Posted on 02/23/2007 1:07:47 PM PST by smoothsailing
February 23, 2007
Happy Birthday, RNC!
The Republican National Committee was established on this day in 1856 to coordinate nationwide opposition to the pro-slavery policies of the Democrats. Republicans from many state parties held their first national organizational meeting at Pittsburgh's Lafayette Hall on February 22, 1856. Presiding over this preliminary session was former U.S. Senator Lawrence Brainerd (VT). A resolute anti-slavery activist, Brainerd entered the legislature as a Whig before shifting to the Liberty Party and then the Republican Party.
The next day, delegates chose the first Republican National Committee. New York's Republican state Chairman, Edwin Morgan, was then elected the first Chairman of the RNC. He had the immense responsibility of organizing the first Republican National Convention, to be held just four months later. Edwin Morgan, who had been Governor, would later be elected to the U.S. Senate and serve as a Major-General in the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
So, today is the 151st anniversary of the RNC. It would have been a phenomenal opportunity for the Republican Party to celebrate its 150th anniversary last year, to kick off the mid-term election campaign season on a unifying and positive note. Alas, this magnificent party-building and fundraising and outreach opportunity just slipped away! Even so, today we honor -- or should honor -- the patriots, the heroes of 1856 who gave us our Grand Old Party.
Michael Zak is proprietor of the website Republican Basics.
Posted at 12:10 PM
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GOP bump.
Prepare for the birthday spanking!
Now if they would grow courage and convictions to support our country.
My birthday wish for the RNC: they get a spine and testicle transplant. What they've got now ain't working too well.
We're one of at least 3 places to claim to be the birthplace. Oddly enough, you won't find too many GOP voters in that "hood" today.
http://www.jacksonmich.com/markers/mark1.htm
Once again, I lose by about a minute, and your words were more "proper" than mine.
As long as there is a Republic may there always be a Republican Party! Happy (belated) Birthday RNC!
The 2007 RNC is not your dad's party.
ZERO, NADA PESOS.
You're right, my Dad was a Eisenhower Republican.
Two years before the Pittsburgh meeting...
Thomas Jefferson's party had originally been called the Republicans or Democratic-Republicans, so it was natural that, once people got fed up with the Democrats, they'd dig up the old name.
Now the RNC serves to coordinate nationwide abetting of the illegal invasion policies of the open border lobby.
You can paraphrase Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address , substituting illegals and the OBL for slaves and slaveholders, and retain the same essential meaning:
These illegals constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the invasion. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the RNC would destroy the GOP even by providing amnesty to Democrat voting illegals, while conservatives claimed no right to do more than to have the Government enforce the laws.
Happy Birthday to the Grand Old Party!
...and I don't think any have been seen here in public ever since.
You'd think that after l5l years, the Republican Party would grow up and be Republican!
The Republican Party was established in 1854. The RNC was established in 1856.
See the Grand Old Partisan blog for the gory details.
>> Now if they would grow courage and convictions to support our country
Agreed. Useless comes to mind.
Happy Birthday RNC.
I still ain't giving you a plugged nickle.
Toss the RINOs and then we can talk.
Thank you, Mike!
Perhaps you could mention it to your contacts. Cheers,
Happy Birthday.
Now secure our borders.
Get well soon, I mean real quick.
The Grandest of Parties! :)
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