[counterpunch]

Now it is time for us to do our part in rebuilding the GOP and setting a new direction for the party. Operation Boehner's Donors begins here. We are looking for people from each Republican held district to serve as a Team Captain, where you will help create a petition at petitiononline.com for your district and drive signatures from local registered Republicans, particularly ones who have donated to your congressman in the past.

We will pledge to withhold all campaign funds to any representative who votes to return Boner to the leadership post.

Please discuss this action here, announce your interest in heading up the campaign in your district, etc.
 

[montag813]

I won’t give a penny to the GOP so long as Boner is in charge. Time for him to go limp and replace him with a real leader. Not one who will cry on the House floor over the disgusting bailout bill, which today has been exposed as a total sham.

[Mojave]

RNC members will discuss the path back to power.

A return to conservative principles is a necessary first step. They'll skip that one.

[exist]

The question we should be asking is: what can we, as a party, do to get rid of Boner— The Isaiah Thomas of politics?

Please if I can sign a petition, or buy a hat, or donate to anybody— I will do anything to get rid of John ‘I’m going to turn the GOP into the New York Knicks’ Boner.

[SoConPubbie]

Boehner needs to leave NOW!

He is part of the problem, not part of the solution!

[Still Thinking]

A week and a half after Republicans suffered their second rout in as many election cycles, the party is looking for ways to regroup and rebuild.

Run conservatives? Maybe make sure the campaigns aren't run by the political equivalent of Barney Fife?

[rockinqsranch]

I think it is erroneous to focus upon the Republican National Leadership at this time. Too many entrenched of the “Moderate” persuasion. RINO’s and the like.

Grassroots action at State level will ultimately force them out if they don’t leave voluntarily. They all represent some State, but if they don’t have the support of the people of the State, they’re out.

We have to concentrate our efforts selecting true Conservatives at the State level. It will all fall into place from that point on. The writing will be on the wall, and the influence, the clout will be in the favor of Conservatives for taking back the National Party.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Let’s see now.....

RNC moves to the center/left.
RNC loses money.

Sarah is brought on.

Sarah is uber conservative AS WE ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RNC GAINS money.

Think! THINK! You can DO this, RNC! THINK!

[smokingfrog]

I don't think the concept of "Reaganism" is vague and generic at all.

Read this...

[Redcloak]

Here's what they need to do:

• Come up with a really good plan to pay for everyone's prescription drugs.
• Spend a boatload of money to help failing banks.
• Get the money out of politics by putting restrictions on how much people can donate to candidates and what they can say. 
• Identify worthy projects around the country and find money on the budget for them.

Oh... Never mind. They tried this act-like-Democrats s**t before and it didn't work. Perhaps they should try acting like Republicans this time.

[nathanbedford]

Republicans "are going to have to have essentially the Council of Trent, to get the popes and the cardinals together and figure out what it is they stand for," said longtime GOP consultant Craig Shirley. "The debate is going to boil down to this: The future of the Republican Party, is it based on Bushism or is it based on Reaganism? Is it based on a K Street access project where you tax cut, tax cut, spend and spend, elect and elect ... or is it going to be a populist type of conservative party that is going to take on the moneyed elites and the political elites?"

This guy has been reading my mail. Here is what I wrote before the election:

Here is a portion of a post which I published before the election in response to a politico article calling for Republicans and conservatives to move left to fill the big tent:

As we conservatives drag the remnants of our movement into the wilderness with no idea how we will emerge or whether we will ever emerge as an electoral force in America which is recognizable by my generation, we must inevitably engage ourselves in the most soul- searing inquiry of what went wrong. This will be an agony but equally it will be effective only to the degree that it hurts. It will not succeed without bloodshed. There must be finger-pointing and bloodletting. We must carve to the bone. The process must be Darwinian. Those whose ideas are false must be bayoneted on the trial.

The object is to find our soul - nothing less. In a come to Jesus sense we must get absolutely clear what it means to be a conservative. Only at this point do we look to the tent flaps and open them. Those who cannot subscribe to the hard-won consensus, to a confession of faith as to what is a conservative, should walk out through that flap. Those who are attracted from the outside to the core message of conservatism should be encouraged to walk through the flap and enlarge the tent. What the left wants us to do is to expand the census in the tent prematurely and thus turn a movement into a menagerie. The Soul-searching must be conducted by conservatives without the earnest ministrations from liberals like those of Politico. This article, of course, has nothing whatever to do with explaining why Republicans lost 2008 election across the board, it has everything to do with first efforts by the left to sabotage the rebuilding process on the right which must be done exclusively by the right.

We have not lost the 2008 election because we were excessively partisan while Obama was enlightened and transcendental. We actually lost the election because George Bush and Karl Rove betrayed the soul of conservatism. A party without its soul is like an army which does not believe in itself, it cannot win the next contest. A party which had abandoned its principles and so lost the last two elections and frittered away both its power as the ruling coalition and its status as the majority philosophy of the nation, cannot expect to swell its ranks by recruiting to a lost cause. The party must first know what the cause is and only then can it recruit. To again borrow the military analogy, a party like an army disintegrates without a mission. Armies are assigned missions but a political party finds its mission only through soul-searching.

As this process occurs we will be told by the left that only a big tent party can win and that to become a big tent one must move to co-opt the center. That is not how it works. That is the reverse of the way it works. The center is not peopled by voters with fixed notions about the exercise of power who wait for one of the great political parties to surrender their values and embrace the tempered and resolute opinions of the middle. That happens with splinter parties but not with the mushy middle. When an unaffiliated voter bestirs himself to enter the polling booth he is confronted with one of two options: right or left. He does not consider who has moved the farthest geographically from right to the left or left to right any more than he commits because of his own long held political beliefs. He votes for the fella who best tickles his fancy at the moment. Put more charitably, he votes for the candidate who persuades that he is the best, and has the best to offer.

If we as conservatives do not believe that we have the best to offer we should get out of the business. A candidate, like a party, who is centered on his philosophy has integrity and is persuasive. And that philosophy must first have a vertical spiritual component which finds expression and out working in a horizontal governing philosophy.

Because of his race, Obama was asked only to demonstrate that he could walk and talk like a president. Obama has won the middle, not because he pandered to them, which he did, but because he had the wind at his back.

As John McCain reverts from titular head of the Republican Party to United States Senator, it falls to the rest of us to contrive a governing philosophy which he, unfortunately, did not own and therefore could not bequeath to us. We had such a legacy from Ronald Reagan but we squandered it. We must construct our own. We must do it in the wilderness. We must do it unaided by intermeddling liberals. Their's is the serpent's way, the easy way, a pander to the superficially popular, the accommodation to the middle. The bed of birth has always been a bed of pain. The pain must be embraced if we are to receive a new life.

[eeevil conservative]

I am with you!

no “boner” for Boehner here....

[Cboldt]

-- the party is looking for ways to regroup and rebuild. The first steps, planning for which began months ago --

Hahahahaha. These "planners" had a hunch, months ago, that McCain was a loser in a presidential race. And see too the number of GOP pols hitting retirement months before the election. Insiders appear to have known the party message wasn't resonating, and what did they do? They waited.

I wouldn't donate a bucket of water to put out the "Charlie Crist" GOP if it was on fire. The GOP is offering government solutions to real-world problems. No thanks.

[ScottinVA]

“Boner”

ROFL!!

[ScottinVA]

It’s good the Governors are taking the lead, but Charlie Crist bears watching. He’s the only active politician to suggest he’s “open” to the idea of slavery reparations. Total non-starter, that.

[goldstategop]

Boehner needs to be dumped. As he's the head coach of the House GOP, it will continue to shrink.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[theDentist]

I fully agree.

In early july it was apparent to even a casual observer of politics that the Dems had a united national campaign to capture the white house and increase their hold on both houses of congress. Boehner was asked if they'd consider another Contract with America. it was a cornerstone of our takeover of the house on '94, and Boehner helped create and implement it. Anyhow, Boehner's reply was "no, we're not going to create a new contract' and worse, instead of having a national campaign during a Presidential election cycle, he said Congressmen and Senators would have to fend for themselves. IIRC, the exact phrase was "every man for himself."

A decentralized campaign wiothou tnational support vs a Nationally coordinated campaign from top down to bottom. DUH!!!

He should be OUT of the leadeship.

[NavVet]

Isn’t Cantor, who I previously liked, the one who argued for the nationalization of the finacial sector.

[Rockitz]

Three necessary conditions for conservatives to regain control of the GOP and eliminate the destructive RINO domination.
1. GOP registration required to vote for GOP candidates so that crossover voters do not select our candidates in the primaries.
2. Move primaries up in several large conservative states so that RINO-infested northeastern states no longer choose our presidential candidate.
3. Allot delegates to the GOP convention from each state based on the number of registered GOP voters in that state and divide the delegates between candidates based on primary results in each state- No more winner-take-all primaries.

[Rockitz]

Three necessary conditions for conservatives to regain control of the GOP and eliminate the destructive RINO domination.

1. GOP registration required to vote for GOP candidates so that crossover voters do not select our candidates in primaries.

2. Move primaries up in several large conservative states so that RINO-infested northeastern states no longer choose our presidential candidate.

3. Allot delegates to the GOP convention from each state based on the number of registered GOP voters in that state and divide the delegates between candidates based on primary results- No more winner-take-all primaries.

[Boonie]

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