Posted on 11/11/2008 4:41:18 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas) is promising to bolster House GOP fundraising efforts if he is chosen to replace Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.) as head of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
In a letter sent to House members on Monday, Sessions wrote that the NRCC needs improvements in various areas, including fundraising, recruiting, messaging, organizational strength and long-term strategies and tactics.
Sessions acknowledged that the NRCC would be again at a disadvantage on fundraising in the 2010 cycle, but is vowing to close the cash gap with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
We may not be able to overcome the other sides funding advantage in just one campaign cycle, Sessions stated. However, we cannot allow our candidates or the NRCC to be outraised as badly as we were last cycle if we are to regain the House.
Sessions, who declared in September he would seek the NRCC chairmanship, emphasized the need for the committee to work closely with elected GOP leadership and that the groundwork must begin for the 2010 elections within the next few months.
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Better him than Cole. This role has nothing to do with policy anyway.
If he has any brains at all, he will recruit candidates that suit the Congressional District. That may mean a RINO.
Study what Rahm Emmanuel did to get his majority. He could have gone for a 100% ideologically pure liberal team of candidates and continued to lose. Instead, he matched candidates to the voters in the districts. He often forced the local party committees to take a far more conservative candidate than they’d have preferred, but he wanted a candidate who could win, rather than to sit back as a proud loser.
There are not enough pure liberals or pure conservatives in many, many districts to get the person of their persuasion elected. So, you take the person closest to that persuasion who CAN be elected. Maybe not 100%, but you take 80% because it’s better than 0%.
If your 80% guy/gal is elected, it empowers the more purely ideological leaders. By getting a majority in the House or Senate, you OWN the place. Then you work out your differences internally. The Speaker and all committee chairs, who select the agenda, are chosen by the majority. Nancy Pelosi didn’t get to be Speaker with only liberal/progressive/socialist votes in the House ... she got to be Speaker because a certain number of Democrat Members from swing districts are more conservative than the party’s base. Same thing happened with Newt in ‘95.
We have to learn that simple lesson or enjoy minority status for another 40 years.
who the heck is left.
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