Grassroots Organizing, High Technology Key to Growing Our PartyRNC members
Grassroots Organizing, High Technology Key to Growing Our Party
RNC members across the nation are energized about taking what they learned at last week's national meeting in Pittsburgh and are running with it to continue expanding the Republican Party. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Mehlman "dispatched Republican National Committee members with marching orders to focus on grass-roots, voter registration and targeting with the goal of bucking the six-year itch, a historic trend of congressional losses by the party of the White House incumbent. 'History is not on our side,' Kelley McCullough, the RNC chief of staff, told the group. 'Traditionally the party of the president loses seats in the second mid-term election.'" The Post-Gazette goes on to report that "Speaker after speaker during the RNC's summer meeting stressed the importance of nurturing that volunteer network as well as maintaining a technological edge over the Democrats."
Moreover, Chairman Mehlman says that expanding the base does not mean we have to sacrifice our principles, rather it's quite the opposite. They work together; our strong values are what motivates new Americans to join the GOP. "The theme of the Republican Party's summer meeting this weekend was expanding its base," the San Francisco Chronicle reports. "'We don't have to choose between motivating our base and bringing new faces and new voices into the party,' said GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman. ... 'We talk about a compassionate conservative philosophy that not only unites Republicans, but attracts support among discerning Democrats and among independents.'" Santorum, the keynote speaker on Friday at the meeting, "told fellow Republicans that his traditional values message 'is a good solid message for every community in America.'" The GOP "sees its strong traditional values message, coupled with the failures of the welfare state and the Democratic Party's rigidity, as the keys to attracting minorities and other new members. 'We're not asking Republicans to become more liberal to lure new voters into the party,' Mehlman told the delegates."
Mindy Finn