Mitt Romney reappeared this past weekend with an analysis of his campaign and his feelings on the state of America today. Romney is a good and decent man who ran one of the worst campaigns I can remember, including McCain’s 2008 presidential bid. At least McCain had the financial crisis to blame for his loss. Romney just didn’t have the street smarts or stomach for the type of campaign he needed to defeat Barack Obama.
Since the election, the press has been offering the template that Republicans are in disarray and trying to rebrand themselves. It’s a narrative the press wants the public to believe as preparations are already underway for the 2014 mid-term elections. The Dems want the House back to foist Nancy Pelosi back on a compliant and supplicant public.
Of course, the press fails to tell you that they are propagandists for the Obama administration. NBC chief Washington correspondents such as David Gregory and John Harwood no longer even offer the pretense of objectivity. Harwood appears as the liberal commentator on CNBC while supposedly offering objective reporting of White House activities. David Gregory’s head is so far up Obama’s ass it would take the jaws of life to pull it out. CNN’s Candy Crowley, the objective moderator of the second presidential debate, offered Obama cover when he got into trouble even though she was factually incorrect. CNN said “bad Candy. Don’t do it again.” Wink! Wink!
Republicans can try to rebrand themselves all they want and it will be for naught because the press has made the decision to block the message. Although a portion of the public listens to alternative media for critical news, for the most part Americans are disengaged and take at face value they are getting accurate reporting from the spawn of liberal journalism schools whose professors are rooted in 1960’s radical activism.
Rather than wasting time on trying to get a national message out that will never be delivered, Republicans should focus on state and local elections. Democratic sage Tip O’Neill stated all politics is local. I agree. Both Democrats and Republicans have their fair share of national twits. The real power is in the states, in the cities, in the townships and on the school boards.
One area that Republicans have failed to capitalize on are the appointments to the Boards of Trustees of state universities. Here is where Republicans can watchdog liberal, progressive and outright communist professors lost in the nether world of academia. Republicans control a majority of the state statehouses. Here is an opportunity to create a starting point for monitoring the twaddle that has crept into our state universities. These bastions of higher education scream academic freedom and diversity when in reality they are anything but. The Harvard Kennedy School of Government has twenty five professors and not one….NOT ONE…is a Republican. Of course, Harvard is a private university. But the state colleges aren’t too far behind. Not only do they deny conservative professors, they deny invited conservative speakers. Enough is enough.
All politicians are concerned with the next election. In the short term, Republicans have to lose the idea of whose turn it is to run next. McCain and Romney shows old guard middle of the road types cannot win elections. You know the definite of stupid…doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
But in the long term, Republicans need to concentrate on getting the conservative message out to the people on the local level...one voter at a time. They have to become in engaged in the education system. It can be done. It will just take a little effort.
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