The Real Sporer had the very distinct privilege to speak to the Bull Moose Club of Des Moines today. The Bull Moose Club is a group of young adult (21-40) Republicans that has been in existence for almost 20 years. It was a great group, although they did make me feel older than the Magna Charta.
However aged it makes the Real Sporer, it is heartening to see a core of young adults-the age at which people still have the creativity to think of new solutions and the energy to execute the change new solutions require-who appear eager to lead the charge from our current minority status here in Iowa. The room was filled with future leadership, and, as we said back in the 70s, the future is now.
What I took from the Bull Moose was confirmation of the urgent need to find more and better activities for our young leadership personalities. To paraphrase Patty Smyth, sometimes cold calls just ain’t enough. Young people are social so why not have the already-Republican share of the demographic recruit their own marketplace Since the young(ish) Rs are already members of lunch clubs, breakfast clubs, professional and a myriad of other groups, why not look for our new blood where the new blood already flows? Every group is also an audience for a Republican message.
This core opens new venues for Party building that we have long abandoned to the Democrats. We could have Republican representation at all of the Golden Circle’s almost weekly mass public events-from the Art Festival to the Marathon to the World Food prize, we can find ways to use humans to bring a personal Republican touch, in some manner, to every event.
For example, if every Moose (and that is just one Republican group, every other group of young Republicans has the same potential) could activate just four passive Republicans (a matter of motivation and sales, after all) from their social or professional life to become involved in the Party we could turn Polk County around much faster than anyone realizes. If just half of the newly energized young Republicans can bring three new Republicans to the polls and one to the Party our share of the vote would swell and we could overturn the corrupt Democrat machine to which so many Republicans have resigned themselves.
Essentially, each Moose (and every other group in Iowa like them) becomes a political nucleus from which independent, but distinctly Republican, cellular growth occurs. While such Party based and decentralized recruiting model flies in the face of our previous top down model it can work for a new generation.
So Moose, carpe diem, the time is upon you.
However aged it makes the Real Sporer, it is heartening to see a core of young adults-the age at which people still have the creativity to think of new solutions and the energy to execute the change new solutions require-who appear eager to lead the charge from our current minority status here in Iowa. The room was filled with future leadership, and, as we said back in the 70s, the future is now.
What I took from the Bull Moose was confirmation of the urgent need to find more and better activities for our young leadership personalities. To paraphrase Patty Smyth, sometimes cold calls just ain’t enough. Young people are social so why not have the already-Republican share of the demographic recruit their own marketplace Since the young(ish) Rs are already members of lunch clubs, breakfast clubs, professional and a myriad of other groups, why not look for our new blood where the new blood already flows? Every group is also an audience for a Republican message.
This core opens new venues for Party building that we have long abandoned to the Democrats. We could have Republican representation at all of the Golden Circle’s almost weekly mass public events-from the Art Festival to the Marathon to the World Food prize, we can find ways to use humans to bring a personal Republican touch, in some manner, to every event.
For example, if every Moose (and that is just one Republican group, every other group of young Republicans has the same potential) could activate just four passive Republicans (a matter of motivation and sales, after all) from their social or professional life to become involved in the Party we could turn Polk County around much faster than anyone realizes. If just half of the newly energized young Republicans can bring three new Republicans to the polls and one to the Party our share of the vote would swell and we could overturn the corrupt Democrat machine to which so many Republicans have resigned themselves.
Essentially, each Moose (and every other group in Iowa like them) becomes a political nucleus from which independent, but distinctly Republican, cellular growth occurs. While such Party based and decentralized recruiting model flies in the face of our previous top down model it can work for a new generation.
So Moose, carpe diem, the time is upon you.
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This group is ripe for take over by the likes of one Mark Klein, M.D. Why hasn't He been ivited to speak to them? It's an outrage. Exclusion! Exclusion! Silver spoon punks! I know your kind! Disgusting.
This is hilarious coming from the rebuked, condemned plaigerizer and history denier, Liberal Democrat President who gave us Modern Iran, Modern Afghanistan, gave away the Panama Canal, befriended dictators and is anti-semitic.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
More BLATHER
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world," Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
Jimmy "gaslines" Carter is trying to reinvent history again, just like Bill Clinton is always doing about his administration. He's still trying to convince us he "did not have sex with that woman, not a single time".
He knows his administration has been largely rebuked as the worst administration in at least the 20th century and he desparately wants someone else to have that mantle.
He'll lie about anything. Just ask his staff at the Carter center about his rebuked and plaigerized anti-semitic book reinventing history that caused most of them to quit in protest.
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In a newspaper interview in May, Carter called the Bush administration the "worst in history" in international relations.
Carter and Clinton believe they will be successful in rewriting their histories because they know the history of their democrat constituency. They know 98% of democrats do not do their own research and will believe anything one of their "leaders" tells them.
DemocRATS follow their Pied Pipers off the cliff of truth every day.
A controversial documentary on climate change which has been sent to thousands of schools has been criticised by a High Court judge for being 'alarmist' and 'exaggerated'.
Mr Justice Burton said former US vice-president Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, was 'one-sided' and would breach education rules unless accompanied by a warning.
Despite winning lavish praise from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry, Mr Gore's documentary was found to contain 'nine scientific errors' by the judge.
I recall when "Taxanne" Conlin ran for governor. She did not lose because of her gender. That is a 60's cop-out. She lost because she had a bad agenda, thus the nickname.
She lost on the issues. She won't take responsiblity for her failure and instead blames society for being sexist.
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Iowans' desire to vote for a woman is something Roxanne Conlin hears frequently. Conlin is a co-chair of Edwards' Iowa campaign, and lost a close race for governor in 1982. She attributes the defeat to her gender.
"Iowa is in some significant ways a very traditional state," Conlin said.
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Iowa is so traditional that we have the largest percentage of women in the workforce and the largest percentage of children in daycare.
What is she talking about?
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_cheating_scandal/celebrity/64271
Right on about Roxanne.
DemocRats always have to find some bullshit way to blame others for their failings.
Like that bullshit Ako and Wayne Ford were spewing the other day. I wonder why Jon Narcisse climbed on that going nowhere band wagon.
Any, Iowa's so fucking traditional that we have among the most liberal (and liberal eater too) of liberals in charge of the state-Culver and the gang of Maoists at the legislature are worse than the commies that run the east coast.
Former Iowa Democratic chair and Obama supporter Gordon Fischer called Clinton out in an open letter: "If Sen. Clinton intends to fulfill the spirit and letter of her pledge to the Democrats of Iowa, why would she want her name on the ballot in Michigan?" The Clinton campaign responded to Fischer's letter, saying, "We are committed to honoring Iowa's role in the nominating process. We will support the pledge and not campaign or spend money in states violating the [Democratic National Committee] rules."
Hey Uncle Teddy....funny stuff on Deace so far. Anyone that sees this tune in to 1040 AM til 6:00
just heard hillary say in an interview on Fox in the same sentence that she will draw down troops immediately, yet she won't draw down troops immediately.
Funny how she always does that and no democrat ever notices.
Then, she cackled about how nice it is at her age to have this many men obsess about her with a double entendre grin. Ick puke gag me.
Then, she declared that lots and lots of republicans are supporting her. Ick puke gag me.
I read the story about John Edwards having an affair which the National Enquirer broke today.
Some might dismiss the National Enquirer, but................let's not forget they broke the Monica Lewinsky story and were dead right on each and every allegation, including the famous seman stained blue dress.
Did Bill put that in his double wide trailer he calls a Presidential Library?
Always about the Party, isn't it. Had you replaced the word "Republican" with the word "conservative" you could accomplish something.
People hate party politics.
"I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known," he said. "So the story's just false."
It never made sense that Edwards would have continued his campaign in light of having two kids under 10 and a mean spirited dying wife.
Now, it does.
Re Tommy Wilson's comment (#1)--Getting the cold shoulder because the GOP has a severe case of "Empirer's New Clothes Syndrome".
Ted, my offer of $1000 to your $100 still stands I'd place in the top three, or more likely win, your straw poll with 3 weeks of relisted.
It's a no brainer I could wipe the floor with Clinton. Americans ache for a genuine outsider candidate who'll call 'em as he sees 'em. A no brainer choice between a clone of the difficult ex, the current wife you can't stand, or a pushy daughter-in-law versus a father, grandfather, physician, and psychiatrist who's his own person.
Ted,
Just let the damn boy be on your blog poll. What is so wrong? He's gonna give a $1000... easiest grand you ever make.
Just let the damn boy play on your poll. Huh?
If ever there was such a thing as a "no-brainer" then By God you are most certainly it, Mark.
Tommy--No brainer me? Then how did I get 52% on Ted's straw poll resulting in getting booted off and the count reset to zero? Also at the July Grundy County GOP meeting's snap straw poll tied for 3rd 3 votes behind Romney.
Finally at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in 3/06 in Memphis as a write in handily beat Guiliani, Brownback, Hagel, and Barbour, Tancredo, and JC Watts.
McCain only bested me by 25 votes.
Might have come in 2nd or 3rd had the Tenn GOP, fearing just that, the night before the vote that urged delegates to write in President Bush's name to show support for the war! To suppress how well I did my results were listed as "Other"!
While my opponents do "events" in Iowa, I do the daily grind of retail politics meeting and greeting ordinary Iowans. Just amazed by the positive response I get and watching folks avidly reading my new brochure once our conversation ended. Be happy to send you one. mark@drmarkklein.com
Seen this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQdn6NvhIU
Are you shitting us Dr. Klein? If so then this thing could be bigger than Watergate. If that be the case then it's about time you and all of your supporters banded together and just poured into the streets! Let's take this back for the people, by the people, and of the people!
Just tell me when and where. You can count on me!
The quality of comments have deteriotated to rumor spreading and scandals. I remember when there was discussion at this site. Only the first comment were on topic.
I hope the Bull Moose group follows TRs philosophy and not just become a potential terrorist cell
Amen to your Bull Moose comments, Real Sporer. The Bull Moosers are definitely getting out there in Polk and Dallas Counties. Several in the group are currently running for local elections, and several alums currently hold elected office. Iowa has strong College Republican groups on its campuses, but we by and large fail to give new graduates an outlet to keep politically active once they leave campus. Groups like Bull Moose are thankfully fulfilling this need. The party needs to do more to foster groups like Bull Moose.
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