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RNC Virtual Forum

Submitted by Robert Willington on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 23:01
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ReubuildTheParty.com has teamed up with YouTube to bring you the first RNC candidate virtual forum.  The campaign for RNC Chairman has been refreshingly open and transparent as we consider the candidates that are running to lead our GOP.  The forum will continue in this direction of decentralizing the Republican Party and enable you, the Party faithful, to have a stronger voice in this process.

  • Get your camera out. Don't worry if it's not the latest and greatest HD flip cam.
  • Upload your video.
  • Vote up – or down -- your peers' questions.

The election is right around the corner (January 30th) and this will be your last opportunity to engage the six candidates that want to lead our Party.  The top ten questions will be presented to the candidates and they are encouraged, and expected, to answer all ten questions. 

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Note to the Ron Paul types:

Submitted by A.J.Nolte on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:18.

This is a response to all the libertarian policy questions posted on the virtual forum:

1. The next chairman of the RNC cannot abolish the federal reserve.

2. The next chairman of the RNC cannot abolish any government departments.

3. The next chairman of the RNC will have very little role in whether Republican candidates view the central bank in the same way as Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy or Ron Paul, unless he takes a personal interest in every house and senate race around the country and personally decides who should get the party endorsement, which is highly unlikely.

4. The next chairman of the RNC will have very little role in determining the size and scope of government in any way shape or form, unless he does what I suggested in number 3.

5. The role of the RNC chairman is to get Republicans elected, pure and simple. Deep and otherwise important philosophical issues are irrelevant to the next RNC chairman, including the philosophy of John Stuart Mill (who, side note, died as a social democrat).

6. All of these questions are important, but should be asked of candidates, who will actually be in a position to do something about them. you would be better off asking whether the next RNC chairman will support a more open primary process, in which state parties and local parties don't preemptively throw their endorsement behind "the next guy in line". Put it another way; I'd like a pro-life chairman, but a chairman who isn't pro-life but won't scotch the candidacies of qualified pro-life primary challengers and candidates in open or Democratic seats in order to chase some vision of making the party more like him is probably okay too. As long as the next RNC chairman gives Paulesque libertarians a seat at the table you're making progress. This is the question you need to be asking.