GOP candidates need a better Republican Party

World Net Daily ^ | Augsut 20, 2013 | Jonathon Moseley

[Moseley]

Does the Republican Party need better candidates? Or do Republican candidates need a better party? Even now the GOP is choosing candidates for the 2014 election, especially for the U.S. Senate. Primary hopefuls are jostling for position. And the dominant questions are: “Will tea-party primary challengers cost the GOP elections?” and “Who can actually win against the Democrat?”

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But as the GOP recruits and trains better candidates, will anyone train Republican insiders how to run better campaigns for GOP candidates? Do we have a worse, more urgent problem with the Republican establishment and consultant class than with the next crop of candidates?

Democrats defend their candidates aggressively. The same quality of candidate will get better support from the Democratic Party than a similar Republican candidate will get from the GOP.

It’s the Stockholm Syndrome. Republicans come to psychologically identify with the liberal bullies. When a Republican comes under attack, other Republicans hope to appease the media by denouncing their colleagues. It’s like the joke about two men running from a bear. The first says you can’t outrun that bear. The second answers I don’t have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun you. Journalists attacking the other guy are ignoring me.

Consider Richard Mourdock who ran for U.S. Senate in 2012. Mourdock’s one gaffe would have gone unnoticed except for the scandal about Todd Akin. But Republican leaders jumped in the feeding frenzy, as always.

Can readers find fault with Richard Mourdock as a candidate beside that one gaffe? In 2010, Richard Mourdock won 62.5 percent of the vote statewide in re-election for Indiana treasurer. Mourdock’s 2010 vote grew from 52 percent in 2006.

[Moseley]

Richard Mourdock’s qualifications and credentials are impressive: commissioner of Vanderburgh County from 1995-2002. Extensive experience campaigning statewide for Congress and secretary of state.

Mourdock is no snake-handler. He holds a Master’s degree in Geology. He worked as secretary and investment manager for the Indiana Board for Depositories, as an executive of Koester Companies from 1984-2000, a senior geologist for the Standard Oil Company, 1979-1984, and a field geologist for the AMAX Coal Company, 1975-1979. He is smart, well-educated and experienced in the sciences, business and the real world.

[Moseley]

To read the whole article, read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/gop-candidates-need-a-better-republican-party/#SyfhjuADZocWcQbu.99

[WesternPacific]

America, itself, needs of a better Republican Party.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Bump.

I enthusiastically agree.

Starting with bringing back American jobs!

[Sherman Hale]

The country needs no parties. The party system has been the bane of the U.S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers were able to write and the people ratify the Constitution all as unaffiliated. There was no party during the first two Presidential elections.

People need to register as unaffiliated and unite under a Constitutional banner.

[EternalVigilance]

AMEN.

[EternalVigilance]

“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.”

— President George Washington, Farewell Address

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Can readers find fault with Richard Mourdock as a candidate beside that one gaffe? In 2010, Richard Mourdock won 62.5 percent of the vote statewide in re-election for Indiana treasurer. Mourdock’s 2010 vote grew from 52 percent in 2006.”

His timing couldn't have been any worse and that is what did him in.

If Obama hadn't lured the GOP fools into his birth control trap, and Rush and Akin hadn't had poured even more gas on the ‘war on wimmin’ fire at Dems delight(Dems 2012 theme) , Mourdock’s comments would have been soon forgotten.

But by the time he made that mistake (wimmin theme) the house was on fire and the firemen were breaking everything that gave off any smoke and that was him

[Moseley]

His timing couldn't have been any worse and that is what did him in.

Of course. I agree with all of that...

... except that competent campaigns and parties help SHAPE those perceptions. They are not just passive victims of the political mood, like the weather.

The feeding frenzy over Akin, Sandra Fluke, and then Mourdock in the middle of the froth are all issues that campaign campaign leaders and parties should be shaping, framing, and influencing all along the way.

[sickoflibs]

RE :” except that competent campaigns and parties help SHAPE those perceptions. They are not just passive victims of the political mood, like the weather.
The feeding frenzy over Akin, Sandra Fluke, and then Mourdock in the middle of the froth are all issues that campaign campaign leaders and parties should be shaping, framing, and influencing all along the way”

You couldn't shape some of those quotes to make them sound reasonable. A much better outcome would have taken place against Obama if the GOP played and fought together as a team like Dems did,. But they had no team leader, that allowed those like Rush to come in and make things worse.

Besides the birth control/rape fiasco last year on the other side Romney and Ryan's magic plan was to wow them with 'economic magic jobs' sweet talk.
‘We will Cut a bunch of taxes, get rid of a bunch of regulations, drill a few wells, build a few pipelines and all will be healed. And we will cut the deficit at the same time but we will let next years congress figure out how to do that, dont worry about that now’

Dems message :”See I told you that those rich guys just want to pad their own pockets with more money like they did in 2000s”

Romney's unintended response :”47% of Americans will never vote for us anyway so we dont have to worry about them”

Maybe clueless Romney SHOULD have been worried about voters,

[Mr. Lucky]

I'm sorry, but Mourdock was a hideously awful candidate.

I listened to the debate in which he shot himself (and almost the candidate for Governor) in the foot. He was terrible; just terrible. He was condescendingly arrogant and uninformed and ALSO made the idiotic comment about rape.

Conservative or not, if a candidate knows there will be only one broadcast debate, he really ought to prepare for it.

[GeronL]

A much better outcome would have taken place against Obama if the GOP played and fought together as a team like Dems did

Not going to happen while half the GOPe wants the other side to like them more than they want to win; or are outright saboteurs to begin with

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Not going to happen while half the GOPe wants the other side to like them more than they want to win; or are outright saboteurs to begin with”

They were not the only ones last year to do that. plenty of blame to go around.

[Moseley]

I'm sorry, but Mourdock was a hideously awful candidate.

In all sincerity and with good will in asking, I would like to challenge you to explain HOW he was a bad candidate, other than that one gaffe.

Remember: He won re-election in Indiana with 62.5% of the vote in 2010 for Treasurer, an increase in his vote from 52% in 2006.

Treasurer requires some trust and competence.

So I think you are being influenced by all the publicity, not by the facts.

You say he did not put in a good debate performance. Well, he won 62.5% of the vote as Treasurer -- Statewide. I don't know, maybe you are right. But I also consider that some States prefer a low-key type of candidate. That might be the Indiana style.

[Moseley]

You couldn't shape some of those quotes to make them sound reasonable.

OH, YES YOU CAN! I KNOW I COULD. If I -- with relatively limited experience -- could do it in my sleep, I know that supposed GOP campaign experts could do it... if they tried.

A much better outcome would have taken place against Obama if the GOP played and fought together as a team like Dems did,.

Totally agree. In fact that is the primary process (as opposed to message) that the Republicans would use if they were as competent (in campaigning) as the Democrats (Democrats are flaming loons when it comes to policy, of course).

Democrats would have (often do) BLOCK the issue from ever getting started or ever taking off. If Republicans knew what they were doing, they would have nipped those issues in the bud. So even if the comments themselves could not be improved upon (I disagree), effective, coordinated TEAM WORK by the Party would have squelched the entire topic and kept the topic from growing big.

Those faux scandals boil over in part because the GOP AGREES with the attackers. When you have both parties agreeing, and the candidate's own party condemning him, it turns a moderate or small story into a huge feeding frenzy.

On the actual content, Democrats would (often do) re-cast and re-frame the content very powerfully and effectively. PAY ATTENTION to what the Democrats do.

If Richard Mourdock or Todd Akin had been Democrats whom the Democrat party wanted to protect, you would have been dominated with a totally different "spin" on what they said.

You would not even know what they said, you would remember only the version of what they said that the Democrat Party wanted you to remember.

[Moseley]

WHAT IS THIS DOING in the middle of the article ????

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[Mr. Lucky]

Mourdock has been a competent State Treasurer; he was a hideously awful candidate for the Senate. In running for a relatively minor state office, Mourdock didn't engage in any broadcast debates; never had to appear shoulder to shoulder with his opponent. In running for the Senate, Mourdock was playing in the big leagues, a call up for which he clearly wasn't prepared.

[Moseley]

Besides the birth control/rape fiasco last year

WHAT birth control fiasco? This is my whole point.

WHEN did any Republican nominee say boo about birth control?

When the news media mediator in a debate asked Mitt Romney about birth control, Romney was dumb-founded that anyone was even interested in the topic and expressed Romney's view that it was an overwhelmingly DUMB question.

Recounting from memory, I recall Romney as saying (a) Why is anyone asking about birth control, and (b) BIRTH CONTROL IS DOING JUST FINE IN AMERICA, thank you very much... and Romney REFUSED to talk any further about birth control.

AND YET.... you come away with the false impression that anyone on the GOP side was talking about birth control, simply because the Democrats wanted to give that impression, and the Republicans are too incompetent in campaigns to respond.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”You couldn’t shape some of those quotes to make them sound reasonable.
....
OH, YES YOU CAN! I KNOW I COULD. “

The Akin one was poison. There was no way to defend it to anyone who wasnt part of that cult, and they would accept anything.

and he had those votes anyway.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Maybe clueless Romney SHOULD have been worried about voters, “

Romney had enough ammo to decimate Obama in the debates. He went to sleep, because Romney had no fire in the belly. He wasn’t hungry to win. Don’t run for office if you don’t want to win. Also, don’t run if you suck on 90% of the issues : )