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“The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional,
and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one”.
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy in America”
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REPUBLICANS DEFEATED BY COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AGAIN
By Chriss Street
November 9, 2012
Republicans need to hurry up and get done tearing each other apart over who is responsible for losing to Barack Obama again. The simple fact is that the GOP snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by dumping Party Chairman Michael Steele in 2011, right after he managed the spectacularly successful 2010 mid-term elections. Steele funded local retail party offices in every county in the nation to build a ground swell of distain against Obama’s carefully crafted Metrosexual image as a socialist elitist. Steele’s successors failed to turn out Republican leaning voters by abandoning the grass-roots strategy in favor of trying to undermine Obama’s perfect media friendly image with media attacks.
Despite the current screeching about new demographics, Americans have a negative view of socialism by a two to one margin. But the traditional image of the socialist community organizer is an angry and threatening protestor with scraggly haired. The brilliance of Barack Obama was to disguise his radical agenda under the image of a metrosexual. Mark Simpson in Salon Magazine article described the metrosexual as:
“The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis — because that’s where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference.”
Barack Obama adopted Saul D. Alinsky’s community organizing Rules for Radicals to take power in 2008. He overwhelmed Hillary Clinton’s mega-bucks advantage in the Democratic Primary with a social media national movement by following Rule 1:
“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.”
In the Presidential election, Barack Obama contrasted himself as elegant, sophisticated and youthful, versus John McCain as a rumpled, bumbling old white guy. When the financial crisis hit, Obama ridiculed McCain as incompetent by employing Rule 3:
“Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.”
Without a ground game to offset Obama’s strength, the bewildered Republicans squandered their cash on TV ads defending their brand in a few battleground states.
After Barack Obama and the Democrats swept control of the Presidency, Senate and House in 2008, the Republicans were finally willing to look inward to discover that the flaw in their brand was ignoring the rise of women, minorities and young people who now made up 70% of voters. As the media declared the party’s death, Michael Steele was elected the first black Chairman of the Republican National Committee in 2009.
Steele, a self-described “Lincoln Republican”, committed to an intensive national grassroots organizing and party building effort at the state and local levels. He poured cash and training resources into even the most uncompetitive states, such as California and Hawaii. Steele’s community organizing strategy was inclusive of the burgeoning Tea Party conservatives and young Republican moderates. Over the next 22 months the Republican National Committee broke fundraising records by raising $198 million for the 2010 Congressional cycle. The revitalized Republican ground game blitzkrieged the bewildered Democrats to capture six new Senate seats and take control of the House of Representatives with 63 new seats, the biggest pickup since 1938 House of Representatives with 63 new seats, the biggest pickup since 1938. The Party also gained 12 governorships and over 600 in state legislatures seats, the most since 1928.
Two months later, Michael Steele was rewarded for his heroic leadership by being fired as Chairman and the gavel handed to the pasty face RNC Treasurer, Reince Priebus. For many of the Republican Party old guard, the perfect is the enemy of good. The new party leadership distanced the party from difficult to dominate Tea Parties and let the powerful ground game built by Steele just wither away.
Mitt Romney was a highly qualified candidate who ran a great campaign and should have been elected President. He lost by 3 million votes because the Republican National Committee ignored the lessons of 2008 and surrendered the ground game back to the Democrats. The Democrats’ grass-roots strategy enhanced Obama’s campaign by producing 300,000 more black and 1.7 million more Hispanics voters in 2012 versus 2008. But Republicans’ strategy of poring huge amounts of cash into television commercials in the nine battleground states sabotaged Romney by producing 6.7 million less white votes in 20012 versus 2008. For a second time in a row, community organizing defeated the Republicans.
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