As promised, this is it. We delivered. The future of the Republican Party is now available for your inspection, by clicking on http://www.GOPonDemand.com. This is the public "beta" version of GOP onDemand,™ the gateway to your constitutional right to guide and instruct your Republican Party. You, the loyal readers of Townhall.com are the very first to see, to critique, to interact with GOP onDemand.™
Please note, various pages are still under construction, and features still must be added. But that's because we want, and need, your input as to what you think Republicans want to see on GOP onDemand.™ If a page’s not clear, if something else is needed, or can be made better — let us know.
GOP onDemand™ represents the Republican Party's return back to what Lincoln envisioned the GOP should be. From top-down marching orders back to voter-driven consensus building. From Washington-know-it-all consultants back to grassroots politics. From K Street back to Main Street.
Now the Republican Party can say Move Over, MoveOn, as GOP onDemand™ is the GOP’s response to the left-wing online member network. GOP onDemand™ provides Republicans every opportunity to meaningfully participate as MoveOn provides the Democrats.
As "drfredc" wrote us: "Thanks for getting it right and out in the public. As a concerned Republican, I've email the RNC several times over how they are just about impossible to participate in — all the GOP seems to want is grass roots folks like my self to send them money — for what? There's little to no options for discussion or grass roots input in contrast with all sorts of blogs and groups going in all sorts of directions at cyberspace speed. I suspect that few, if any of the GOP leadership use email, blogs or any new info technology. The GOP ought to replace it's elephant with the dinosaur . . . something big, slow and slothful like a brontosaurus."
Is what you don’t see on GOP onDemand™ which makes it extraordinarily powerful. On the flip side is Republican All in One™ a Web2.0 software accessible to each and everyone of the 365,000 precinct Republican committeemen and committeewomen. Your input in GOP onDemand™ goes not to some inpersonal call center, but to your neighbor, your Republican committeeman and committeewoman (or if need be, to your Republican county chairman). This is where the real grassroots politics occurs. Absolutely no one else even comes close in delivering this person-to-person connectivity.
There’s more to this breaking news development. If you are a Republican committeeman, a conservative activist, or simply a concerned voter, go to www.RepublicanTrustees.org for more information on both Web2.0 GOP onDemand™ and Republican All in One.™ Inform your Republican county chairman he or she needs to contact us for the password to download important information essential to rebuild the GOP, particularly after not one, not two, but now three devastating Congressional special election losses in what are suppose to be rock-solid Republican districts. And if your county or local Republican committee doesn’t have a website, go to www.MyGOPSite.com for an inexpensively comprehensive, but user-friendly entree into the Internet. And wait until we unveil the webcast services.
GOP onDemand™ also represents the Republican Party's transition from lobbyist-dominated, big ticket fund raisers to online campaign fund raising. Instead of being beholden to the special interests, the GOP becomes responsive to everyday Republicans.
Now, we the Trustees don’t want to sound like a broken record, but if you want the power you have to donate. And there’s a critical reason (beyond the obvious that money is the milk of all politics). All you have to do is look at the Obama campaign to understand why. Barak Obama is piling up support from super-delegates, particularly long-time Clinton allies, because he does not have his left hand out begging for money while extending his right hand soliciting support.
At the same time, by relying on grassroots Democrats to fund his campaign, Obama has truckloads of money to use for the fall campaign. McCain has conceded he must rely on public financing, at the risk he will be outspent by up 3 to 1 or more. Obama remains the media’s darling purporting to be free from pay-to-play politics, all the while Democrats are stockpiling campaign contributions.
Remember, 2008 is not merely about John McCain. There are 6,348 Republicans running for office. Republicans regaining control of governorships and state legislatures lost in 2006 is upmost concern in light of the fact that 2010 elections control redistricting for the next decade. Conceding a veto-proof Congress to the Democrats makes no sense in the long run, as incumbent reelection rates for Democrats are notably higher than for Republicans.
If you, the grassroots Republican want to regain control of your Republican Party, you have do it with votes, and with volunteering and cash. You can’t gripe and think that’s will cure all. If you want the Republican leaders to be responsive to you, then you have to control not only the vote, but the pocketbook.
James’ biblical reminder to be doers of the word, and not hearers only, is as valid in politics as in life generally. In other words, you can’t just talk the talk, you have to walk the walk. Otherwise, you’re merely deceiving yourself. |