The Daily Haymaker has a great post from which I will excerpt heavily:
The state party chairmanship and the campaign management basically got sub-contracted out to DC and the RNC. There was no rapid-response or any similar communications operation. The alleged fundraising operation to help the judicial candidates was basically one big Potemkin village.
Snatch the political and fundraising resources away from the legislative caucuses. Those organizations were originally created because the folks back home were getting a wee bit too uppity. Candidate recruitment and funding and strategy need to be returned as much as possible to the state and local parties. The current caucus setup just invites corruption.
The NCGOP ought to be helping the entire ticket. Not just the legislators. Get elected officials out of the party votes. It’s not about catering to the elected…
There was no significant GOTV effort anywhere. Certainly not one led by the state organization…
Nobody who was in power on Election Day needs to stay there. We need new party officers and new legislative leadership. What’s been there and driven us to this catastrophe HAS TO GO.
Changing the state party starts now. Go to your precinct meetings and make your thoughts known. Most county conventions are in March. Get yourself there and get elected as a delegate to the state. Like-minded people in those positions can make the needed changes at the state level.
This junior-high, clique-ish, Mean Girls stuff has got to stop.
Both the national and the state GOP failed. North Carolina and Texas are commonly discussed as the two states that were most severely affected by the Blue Tsunami.
The NC state GOP and our own county party have been bad organizations. There is a history of shutting out conservatives who sought to initiate positive change in order to preserve GOP establishment prerogatives.
It was interesting to watch campaign ads this year on TV. The socialists’ commercials were omnipresent and well-produced. The GOP ads were very sparse and low quality.
As the Daily Haymaker states, there was no visible, palpable get-out-the-vote operation for the Republicans. It was virtually non-existent. Where did all the campaign money go? There really ought to be an investigation.
“There is a history of shutting out conservatives who sought to initiate positive change in order to preserve GOP establishment prerogatives.”
I experienced that in spades in the last decade when I made such efforts in the NC Party. Very much a closed, jealous, possessive shop. The kind of organization that produces such people as Tom Tillis and Michael Whatley–people who pose as conservatives only because they know that is their constituency (but who’s only real principle is self-advancement).
I was only minimally involved for a short time, J. Sobran, more than a decade ago. But I experienced the same phenomenon.
They have pulled various maneuvers over the years.
There certainly needs a lot of rebuilding in the GOP . Can it recover ? History gives some encouragement.
Yes, of course it can recover, Fred, especially given that we have a two-party system and pendulums swing. I hope the loss of Texas is not fatal– but we will just have to see about that. The margin in the US House will be a difficult hole from which to climb. The socialists are now projected to have around 260 seats– and the GOP about 100 less!