On Sunday night, Americans learned a great deal about Nancy Pelosi and her Far-Left Democrat allies. We learned that to achieve their dream of controlling every aspect of our daily lives, Pelosi and her cronies are willing to break any rule, offer any form of “inducement” and plainly defy the will of the American people. We learned that they are more than willing to violate the rights of citizens, while at the same time inventing rights for IRS agents. (Under Pelosi's plan, the IRS will be empowered to determine citizens have “appropriate insurance coverage.” Those who don’t will be forced to “buy” coverage from an Obama-approved insurance dealer.) We learned that Pelosi-Democrats' claims of working toward a more free society are nothing more than posturing.
Progressives are the new Oppressives, and Pelosi is their champion. But we also learned that as the Pelosi-Democrats try to tighten their grip on the American people, they will meet with resistance in the form of new conservative, Republican and libertarian activists. These brave individuals have already made their presence known. Ultimately, they will triumph, and consign Pelosi's toxic brand of statism to the discount-bin of failed philosophies. And they'll do it by using the web to make their voices heard.
It's already begun. As Pelosi and her entourage crowed about their seizure of 1/6th of our economy, the RNC launched http://www.FireNancyPelosi.com -a money bomb designed to raise funds for one purpose: unseating Speaker Pelosi by winning 40 new Republican Congressional seats this November. Inspired by the firm, principled leadership of House GOP members like John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan, and an impassioned television appearance of RNC Chairman Michael Steele, TCOT activists organized themselves and took to the web, ready to make a difference.
With barely any advance advertising (ads only went up late Monday morning), these digital patriots adopted the #FirePelosi hashtag. http://www.newds.biz, which tracks conservative-leaning tweets, had “Fire Pelosi” at the top of their rankings within hours. Over 150 people per-hour were using GOP.com’s Tweet-Bomb to announce their donations and, to get the Fire Pelosi banner on the Twitter avatars. On Monday morning, “Fire Pelosi” was on Google Trends, and hours later, RNC and GOP had become ranked fourth and fifth on the same list. Embeddable widgets provided on the site were quickly posted on pages all over the internet, and less than 12 hours after Pelosi passed her disastrous bill , the RNC blew past its fundraising goal of $402,010. (We've since set a new goal at http://www.FireNancyPelosi.com.) Monday at 8:00, we were closing in on our second fundraising goal of $842,010.
This is a tremendous success, and full credit is owed to the new wave of online Republican activists. They who turned this campaign to remove the gavel from Nancy Pelosi's hand into something special, and this November, they will see it through to its end. The Republican National Committee is proud to stand with these patriots.
The work has already started. The counter-revolution has already begun. And the counter-revolution will be re-tweeted.
Todd Herman -@ToddEHerman- is the Director of New Media at the RNC but, his more important role is Dad + Husband.
*At the time of this posting, the RNC has already raised $958,410 toward its new goal of $1,002,010.
