Sorry, but Akin, Murdock, O’Donnell, Angle and the rest are not acceptable. Nor Bachmann or West for that matter.

MJBrutus on November 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM

Bullcrap. Akin was a mistake that amended state election laws will fix(we now have veto-proof majorities at the state level). Mourdock would have won if not for Akin. O’Donnell and Angle were the one-offs from 2010, and deserve to be in the company of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman who also lost. I’m no Bachmann fan but West was shafted by his own party in redistricting and has been nothing but a force for good in his one term in congress to date.

Palin 2016

Therefore, he has to go.

Techies are drawn to statists/top-down political ideas. I think because computers allow so much control over them it spills into people’s psyche that you can “program” society to do what you want it to.

Well, thats my theory anyway.

Decoski on November 11, 2012 at 9:46 PM

Yeah good pick, but I gotta tell ya, my GaS bottle is empty. I held my nose 3 times and look where we are now. I won’t remain in the party of socialist lite.

The one thing we did well in this election was raise money. Maybe move Reince over to fund-raising. But the GOP’s only consistent message this cycle seemed to revolve around rape-induced pregnancies. I mean, can’t the party bosses make sure senators know how to answer questions like that without sounding like zealots?

The GOP is still running the party from smoke-filled rooms. The Dems are way ahead on organization and message discipline.

The GOP leadership cannot see past their collective noses. We have tried for years to change the RINO leadership to no avail. Let them implode. They don’t know how to win and I don’t think they really want to. They are more comfortable being losers and not having to make hard decisions.

Where was Palin at the convention? Where was the Tea Party? RNC bluebloods scared of them, Romney hubris and instead put Christie the Backstabber as keynote???????…….why should I give any more money to this party?

Starlink on November 11, 2012 at 6:53 PM

They dissed Palin and theTeaParty so they could run to the middle, and look how that turned out.

idesign on November 11, 2012 at 6:58 PM

This!

And when we lose they blame the TEA party and Rush and wave the chicken crap white flag of surrender to their friends across the aisle.
When it was obvious Romney was going to win the nomination, I swore for a month I would not vote for him. But I came around because of the alternative. Sometimes he sounded so good. But it was never from his heart! He was simply getting better at convincing people like me he was a better alternative than a full blown communist! But in the last week I heard what I know others heard. Speeches that repeated “I’m going to reach across the aisle!” What the heck is he saying this for? Is he this stupid or does he think we are?

Yeah, freaking Chris Chistie as the keynote! And how did that work out? RINO’s are not even loyal to each other! Romney would have been no better to all of us! He would have appointed God knows who to the Supreme Court and where would we have been in 2016?

I voted for Romney. But he did not make it easy in the last week.
But besides… how much voter fraud took place?

Nobody is taking seriously about it! We don’t want to go there. We see the stories. We see the undercover videos of Democrats planning fraud. We see the postings of Democrats bragging about voting 5 times. We hear the stories of poll watchers being thrown out onto the streets and yet we still act like it doesn’t matter?

Do you actually think Democrats do this because they think it doesn’t matter? Do you actually think they are going to waste their time engaging in some kind of fraud that isn’t going to have any effect?

Our freaking Republican leadership sits on their hands doing nothing! We should start by getting rid of them! Boehner needs to resign! We need House hearings on voter fraud!

Reince did a horrible job with this election. The contest should not have been close- yet Republicans were trounced. The consequences for that will span many future elections.

The much vaunted GOTV “machine” was nothing of the sort. It is at a minimum embarrassing, if the GOP can’t motivate party members during this type of election- that alone should force Reince to resign.

What was our message anyway? What do we stand for? What were our principles and proposals? Yeah, I don’t remember them either.

Reince didn’t even bring the GOP his home state.

Honestly. do I need to go on? If Reince stays it is a self-serving, selfish move.

Steele is kind of an idiot.

I could really go for a dynamite, intelligent, happy-warrior woman who has the right skill set. I don’t know who that might be, but can’t we get someone to compile a binder full of them so that we can start interviewing?

If we were to go racial minority, would this be up Artur Davis’s alley?

Look, I want someone who thrives on the fundraising and can get the behind-the-scenes effort mobilized. But I also want someone–right now, I want a woman–who finishes up interviews leaving even the nuts at MSNBC floored by her intelligence and charm.

Believe me, I don’t know the players. But here’s a woman I really like: Kelly Anne Conway. She was part of Gingrich’s primary team, and she has her own polling or PR firm. She’s an attractive mother of four (I think), and she has great communication skills. She’s firm, no shrinking violet, but she always has a smile on her face. Just a suggestion.

BuckeyeSam on November 12, 2012 at 3:26 AM

The main responsibilities of the RNC chair is to fundraise and organize behind the scenes. Priebus did a good job on the former, but screwed up on the latter in this election. I think that the Romney team took over the ground game efforts and should be mostly blamed for the efforts, but Priebus should have started building an organization in 2011.

As for your suggestion of a woman or a minority, I think this is the same thinking that has people slobbering over Marco Rubio before he’s actually done anything. Being charismatic and good on the TV programs is why Michael Steele became RNC chairman. So let’s actually make sure that the person put in charge has skills rather than being the token affirmative action candidate.

Could Priebus have done anything better or differently?

Yes, but what he could have done is something only God knows. I personally can’t think of a thing. However Reince Priebus did nothing wrong. You can do everything right and still lose.

As a member of the Republican Party Of Lake County Florida (and not just as a register voter), I would welcome Reince Priebus to stay on as RNC chair.

For whatever organizational skill Priebus has, he is unable to speak in Breitbart and, thusly, is played by the MFM.

After the last cycle there are only one or possibly two individuals who know how to do this as seen in the Primaries. One of them was Newt Gingrich which, although he lacks some of the organizational skills, is able to speak Breitbart and confront the MFM very well. Not a great choice, true, but those combative and confrontational qualities with the MFM are now a mandatory part of being the head of the Republican Party. If you do not have them, then you will fail in your job.

Defund NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, etc. with your remote control.

hahahahahaha.. oh wait you were serious.

NBC is owned by Comcast, so I hope you like broadcast tv. But you don’t like any of the broadcast stations except fox so.. hope you only like watching fox, or you can watch Time Warner cable I guess but.. oh snap – then you’d be funding CNN instead. You’re screwed.

CBS is owned by viacom and.. yeah, good luck defending them with your right-wing blogosphere commenter blackout. No, really. You’ll do great.

ABC is Disney, which just dropped 4 billion on star wars. I’m sure your boycott will work though! Keep fighting the machine!

triple on November 12, 2012 at 1:47 AM

Where do they get that money from? All that money doesn’t just come off the Obama Money Tree. It comes from our pockets. It also comes from advertisers.

Are you suggesting that because the task is hard or has a chance of not being successful that we should just roll over and give up?

It’s not hard. Don’t buy what they’re selling. Don’t buy what their advertisers are selling. Tell them. We spend time reading Hot Air. Take 5 min of that time and email the advertisers and explain why you aren’t buying anymore of their product. If 100,000 people do that then you don’t think they’d notice.

Don’t know about you, but I don’t like grabbing my ankles. I’d rather go down standing than spend my life bending over.

Priebus is an awkward nerd. Apparently, the First District of WI produces those in spades. However, he is better on TV than DWS. Also, the RNC tried the charismatic minority route in 2009 and that didn’t work out very well.. Priebus had to clean up his mess.

Illinidiva on November 11, 2012 at 8:16 PM

Steele is kind of an idiot.

I could really go for a dynamite, intelligent, happy-warrior woman who has the right skill set. I don’t know who that might be, but can’t we get someone to compile a binder full of them so that we can start interviewing?

If we were to go racial minority, would this be up Artur Davis’s alley?

Look, I want someone who thrives on the fundraising and can get the behind-the-scenes effort mobilized. But I also want someone–right now, I want a woman–who finishes up interviews leaving even the nuts at MSNBC floored by her intelligence and charm.

Believe me, I don’t know the players. But here’s a woman I really like: Kelly Anne Conway. She was part of Gingrich’s primary team, and she has her own polling or PR firm. She’s an attractive mother of four (I think), and she has great communication skills. She’s firm, no shrinking violet, but she always has a smile on her face. Just a suggestion.

The Dems would rally around Satan himself (and possibly have) if he was their nominee.

Rockshine on November 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM

I couldn’t see them rallying behind Evan Bayh. They also had trouble falling in love with John Forbes Kerry.

Too much focus on letting the Romney campaign run things and all resources seemed to be focused on the Presidential race. The whole party relied on the Orca project from the Romney campaign, it seems and it looks like that cost them voter turnout for the down-ticket races. Not enough focus on the down-ticket races in general. Relying on the PACs to do ads isn’t the same as knocking on doors. Nobody from my local area called me or knocked on my door to see if I was planning to vote or even still alive.

The PARTY needs to develop and maintain a GOTV system that it owns and that evolves over time.

A deliverable on the day before the election was, in the technical vernacular, stupid. This should have been tested during the primaries or at least in early voting. It should have been delivered on the first of October. That isn’t Reince’s fault per se and he has probably learned a huge lesson from it.

I’m inclined to give him another shot for 2014.