Jun 11 2008
We Need Solutions, Not Labels
“This shouting Liberal! Liberal! Liberal! stuff is not going to work this year,” Lee Teague, Mecklenburg’s GOP chairman, e-mailed a reporter.
“McHenry and a lot of other Republicans in Washington need to get a clue,” he added later.
Mr. Teague gets it. The RNC doesn’t. People want solutions, not talking points. One of the reasons why Barack Obama has attracted as many cult like followers as he has is because he is talking more about ideas of change and focuses less on political attacks. In all three special elections for Congress this year in which the Republicans lost the seat, they spent their time with negative attacks attempting to link their opponents to Obama’s far left extremist views. It didn’t work. The Democrat candidates focused on ways to fix problems and that’s what people want to hear.
“We don’t have the brand power to do that right now, so we need to come to the table with a better game,” said Michael Steele, chairman of GOPAC, a national group charged with electing Republicans.
“We need some common-sense solutions that speak to where people are in their everyday lives. So running around screaming ‘this guy’s a liberal’ won’t get you re-elected.”
Michael Steele is a great man with an even greater future ahead of him. I have no doubt we’ll see him running for President some day. He is the guy they should have tapped to run the RNC. Duncan is absolutely useless and Martinez was nothing more than a Bush lackey.
