Republican National Committee Quotes
After a memo was circulated about House Speaker-elect Tom Foley that implied that the congressman was a homosexual:. at the Republican National Committee, source of the offending letter
Refusing the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee which paid $125,000 per year:
Referring to a letter from the Republican National Committee intimating that Speaker of the House-designate Thomas Foley was homosexual:
Ironically, for 100 years after the Civil War, it was the Democrats who tried to keep the Blacks from voting as until Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt began to attract Negro votes, Blacks voted overwhelmingly Republican. In 1964 President Johnson, with bipartisan support overcame the Southern Democratic Filibuster and passed the Civil Rights Act and then the Voting Rights Act. The Republican leadership, sensing the Southern Democratic Anger at the Democratic Party Leadership, implemented their Southern Strategy and embraced the most racist Southern Democrats if they would switch parties. Most did quickly. Soon, almost all the conservatives had abandoned the Democratic Party. This made the Republican Party more conservative and soon liberal Republicans were extinct and by the end or the 20th century, most of the moderates were gone. With almost all of the worst racists in the nation becoming Republicans and being warmly welcomed by the Republican leadership, almost all Blacks became Democratic voters. Then the racist conservatives went back to their time-tested mechanisms for suppressing the Black vote—only this time it was for the benefit of the Republican party. Soon the non-racist Republicans, realizing that minority voter suppression could be an effective mechanism to offset the greater minority fertility rate, the increased voting rate of the young, and the alienation of many unmarried women to the more conservative Republican ideology, got behind voter fraud prevention—a more acceptable purpose for activities that coincidently could make it more difficult for minorities to register and vote. Those activities were what Judge Debevoise was referring to in this quotation.
The party was in great disarray as the Tea Party Republicans a movement new to politics tended to be very obstructionist against any proposals or legislation that did not conform to their ideology. They had very little legislative experience and viewed any compromise as an immoral abandonment of principles and ideology. The other republicans were conservative, experienced pragmatists, who were not into continuous confrontation with the Democrats. If the Tea Party did not believe a Republican was ideologically pure enough, they would often run a candidate against the Republican in the next primary election. Often the tea party insurgent would win by taking extreme positions and appealing to the rabid right wing of the party who tend to vote in primaries. But more often than not, the extreme positions the Tea Party candidates took would not appeal to the general electorate, and the Republicans would lose the seat in the general elections. Even if the regular Republican would win in the primary, he/she would have had to take such conservative positions that they were weakened in the general election and their judgment and discretion was limited to the primary election commitments they had made. Ever since the Tea Party elected some members of Congress, that body became more and more ineffective legislatively and passed the fewest laws in the history of Congress. This was fine for the Tea Party ideologues, but harmed the national brand of the Republican party with many different voter constituencies including Blacks, Hispanics, women, young people, intellectuals, and others. At the same time the White males—the backbone of the Republican Party—were demographically becoming a minority of males. The Republicans had not won the popular vote in 27 years, and the elder statesmen of the Republican party strongly urged that the Republican Party stop digging in the hole they had made and step back and reassess the party, its principles, policies and tactics.
