Today's Washington Post has a profile on RebuildtheParty.com:
At 6:50 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6-- less than 44 hours after the GOP lost the White House and more seats in Congress -- RebuildTheParty.com went live.
Founded by two young party activists, Patrick Ruffini and Mindy Finn, the site proposes to start by rebuilding the often marginalized conservative blogosphere. Its mission statement, a 3,200-word, 10-point manifesto, is aimed at Republicans in general -- and more specifically at whoever takes the helm of the Republican National Committee in the next few weeks. It's signed by a Who's Who of the online conservative grass roots -- the "rightroots" -- most of them in their 20s and 30s, many frustrated by the current state of the Grand Old Party that seems just that: old and out of touch.
"2008 made one thing clear: If allowed to go unchecked, the Democrats' structural advantages, including their use of the Internet, their more than 2-to-1 advantage with young voters, their discovery of a better grassroots model -- will be as big a threat to the future of the GOP as the toxic political environment we have faced the last few years," the site proclaims.
Yesterday, Patrick announced the re-launch of the site to include new features and the endorsement of two candidates for RNC Chairman, Saul Anuzis of Michigan and Chip Saltsman of Tennessee. Two other declared candidates have yet to jump on board.
The next RNC Chairman will play a central role in the effort to rebuild the party. Along with signing up and endorsing the plan, if you have a line in to the other declared candidates for RNC Chairman, Katon Dawson of S.C. and Michael Steele of MD, do give them a nudge to embrace the effort.
The plan itself has many strong points. It's hard not to find yourself nodding as you read it. Clearly the authors have experience behind the wheel of the RNC eCampaign division and elsewhere and have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities at play for the party apparatus moving forward.
And how about those ideas missing from the plan? You'll find them (or you can add them) in the "ideas" feedback forum.
The road to recovery for the Republican Party will include many, many, many voices. You should be one of them.
[Aside: To that end, I'm happy to announce that things at TechRepublican are about to change. We've re-designed the site and we're looking for new, consistent contributors (at least one post per week). If you're interested in being a contributor, email me at David AT davidallgroup.com.]
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Some way or some how we have
Some way or some how we have to educate the American voter. Admittedly, we did not have two great candidates running for president this year, but the one with the least experience was elected to the office. Have we just become a nation of sheep who blindly follow the charismic speaker who makes promises that he knows he cannot keep? Do we not care at all about his murky background and that he will not even submit his birth certificate to prove he is an American citizen? Do we not care that over 200 million dollars contributed to his campaign fund came from overseas and he will not list all of his contributors as McCain did? Socialism is on our doorstep and we do not seem to care.
The nutroots are already
The nutroots are already minimizing any efforts to use the web by the right.
They seem to feel very secure in their echo chamber and just somehow don't take notice of the fracture between for example the kos kids worship of the ONE and the exile of the PUMAs.
The demographics are left sided for the wired tech web kids and the right has a job to go to and except for the most politically active don't look around for a lot of content on the web.
Full web 2.0 chasing of the model might not be the best idea but again a central location of good solid information with rss feeds and mailing lists could help.
Obama's outreach was pushed by Plouffe and ran by the founder of Facebook.
Pick the parts that fit for our needs but to try to do it all would really be in some ways a lot of effort for marginal gains.
Primary in 2010
Take them out in the Primary.
http://www.primarychallenge.org/PrimaryChallenge2009-10.html
AZ information
Can anyone put me in touch with any person or group of Republicans in Arizona that would like a true conservative candidate to run against John McCain? Thank you.
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