Tough Questions/ Real Answers

Tough Questions/Real Answers

Q: Why hasn’t the GOP embraced prevailing technology?
A: Best way to answer is to direct your attention to the Freeman theory. In short, Professor Jo Freeman proved that the Democratic Party acts as free-flowing social movement, while the Republican Party acts as top-heavy business corporation. (We don’t approve of Professor Freeman’s liberal, feminist leaning, but her academic research withstood both peer review and passage of time. If you want to read the academic article, go to http://www.jofreeman.com/polparties/polculture.htm). While such a GOP mind-set might have been tolerable in the age of Network Television, it simply cannot fly in the age of the Internet. The Internet intimates old-guard Republicans.

Q: Why then, are these old-guard Republicans afraid of prevailing technology?A: Because individual power brokers lose control. The Internet opens up access to the general public. Power brokers (the modern day equivalents of Boss Tweed party bosses) can’t parcel out access and influence to elected officeholders when the Internet is opening up the political process. They can’t stand the Lysol.

Q: Is this Republican mind-set or culture right?A: According to the U.S. Supreme Court, no. The purpose of political parties is represent like-minded people to win elections; not to sanction profiteering and self-dealing. The Supreme Court also asserts that all voters have a First Amendment right to participate in the party of their choice. Keep in mind, not all Republicans suffer this old-guard way of thinking. Most Republicans believe what you believe. It is a fractionally small, indeed minute minority that keeps bucking the march of time. Unfortunately, because they command many of the “Inside the Beltway” political levels, they remain in the way.

Q: How can we take back our Republican Party?

A: By demanding everyone obey your First Amendment right to participate in the GOP. You can run for office, contribute to candidates of your choice, write to your elected officeholders, demand accountability of your GOP leaders. This is your constitutional right. The bottom line however is this — the only way Republicans take back the Republican Party is en mass. There has to be a groundswell of opposition to the old guard power brokers before anything can change. You can start with your financial support.

Q: There you go again, always wanting a contribution!

A: And that’s the problem. If you don’t give to honest, hard-working Republican candidates and committee people, then they have go back to power-brokers, who are always more than happy to give in exchange for access and influence. Don’t you think that most Republicans want 100 people who give $10 instead of one person giving $100,000? Come on now! Democrats walked the walk with 3.1 million people making over 6.5 million online donations raising more than $500 million, just for Obama himself. This doesn’t count MoveOn, ActBlue and scores of other Democratic online fund-raising websites. You have to stop talking the talk, if the GOP is ever going to get its act together again.

Q: Alright, but how do my contributions are going into the right pockets?

A: By donating your time in addition to your dollars. You don’t have to make it a full-time job, but show up at GOP Lincoln-Day or 4th of July picnics so the GOP candidates see you. Work the polls. Write to the blogs and call the talk-radios. Political activity is a double-barrel process.

Q: What role do the Trustees of the Republican Leadership Trust play?

A: The Trustees of the Republican Leadership Trust are unique, in that they, in charge of a charitable trust, are fiduciaries and officers of the court not answerable or accountable to any particular Republican, but all Republicans universally. The Trust exists to protect your First Amendment rights by providing prevailing Internet technology to all Republicans. Your support of the Trust is not a campaign contribution per se (although it still is not tax-deductible, so don’t try). The Trustees are watchdogs who operate outside of the Republican Party command to help build the party infrastructure from the ground up. Because the Trustees are “officers of the court” the Trustees cannot support or oppose any individual candidate for public or political office and are at all times 100% neutral.