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Winning more than one election at a time
By punch bowl | May 27, 2008
Ethan Eilon, CRNC exec. director, shares his thoughts on the “one election at a time” mentality of the Republican Party (and politics in general), urging more investment in Republican youth and focus on the bigger picture.
His comments were originally published at a new blog launched by former College Republican Soren Dayton called The Next Right.
Here is an excerpt. To read the entire article, click here.
It wasn’t the senior staffers to Barry Goldwaters 1964 campaign who would go on to change this party and this country. They certainly did a great deal to set the stage, but in reality their greatest feat was to activate an army of young, engaged, thoughtful conservative activists. Young men and women who could think, who could execute, and who recognized the mission ahead.
As it stands, we are failing ourselves as a party for lack of investment in our own survival. I’m the first to admit a bit of bias because of where i work but I think if we as a party want to pull things back together we need have a vibrant, engaged youth component. When you look at the voter skews from 2004, 2006, and the disparity in primary results in 2008 one thing sticks out above all others. Younger generations are voting against the Republican brand.
Topics: CR gossip, cr blogs, CRs On The Record, CR alumni, CRNC, CRNC Alumni, CRs in the news, Ethan Eilon |
May 28th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Ethan, whose job do you think it is to fight the trend? We can depend only on ourselves.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:13 am
And part of that job is to get the word out to other conservatives, which is what blogging on forums like Next Right and Redstate is meant to do. Maybe you should’ve posted your comment there instead of here….
May 28th, 2008 at 10:10 am
“Younger generations are voting against the Republican brand.”
I think that’s the wrong way to take the data. They’re not voting against our brand; they’re voting for the brand that is getting their attention! Look at the presidential elections: the demos show strong support for the Dems, yes, but that same demographic is strong for Paul too!
Libertarian views are more in line with conservativism than progressivism/liberalism, and Paul has conservative views that stray the libertarian ones.
You don’t need a youth component. You need a youth-geared marketing team.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Have you people not heard the stories about Soren Dayton? During the Gourley-Davidson race, just days before the vote, Dayton and a small group of others ‘invaded’ the CRNC national office and Dayton stuck a camera in the faces of these poor college-age interns and pretty much tried to run them over like a bus.
This is the same Soren Dayton who routinely publishes character-based personal attacks on Mitt Romney et al. Choose your company carefully. He’ll throw you over the bus as fast as he through them under the bus, and he’ll get a rush out of doing it. I see half of you morons are in the “Support Soren Dayton” group, he wouldn’t hesitate to wreck you if it would increase his traffic.