The best symbol of the grassroots worker I can think of is the Republican Assembly… [NFRA’s] thousands of dedicated men and women are the ones who turn all those modernistic campaign devices into real votes.
“[NFRA] provides the nucleus of the Republican candidate’s volunteer work brigade. I know from personal experience. It’s hard to imagine my campaigns being anywhere near as successful as they were without the dedication of Republican Assembly members.
“I urge you to join today.
Like my precious friends Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston, I am proud to be a member of the Republican Assemblies. There was a time when we in Hollywood fought Communism and believed in America. Now the liberals seem to run everything and want to destroy all that we fought for. But the NFRA isn’t afraid of that fight, and it grows stronger every day, and I am honored to be involved with people who truly understand what America is all about.
We are engaged in a social, political and cultural war, in our country and even in our own party. The Republican Assemblies are some of the most effective forces in that war, and I applaud your work.
The Republican Assemblies are unafraid, to stand up for principle or to stand up to the establishment.
The NFRA fights tirelessly to elect a strong, grassroots Republican Party leadership. The more they succeed, the more we’ll see real change in America.
Now is the time for Patriots to mobilize. The NFRA is a great vehicle for taking back our country.
If you picked up a Coke bottle and saw a rat’s head in the bottom, you’d never think about Coke the same way again. Republicans who vote for tax increases and bigger government destroy the Republican brand name in exactly the same way. It is the job of the Republican Assemblies to defend the brand Reagan built, and stop the people who are ruining it.
As a famous Californian once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” That’s why, now more than ever, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies is looked upon as one of the preeminent guardians of Ronald Reagan’s legacy, providing a powerful, unwavering voice for conservative principles amid the pandemonium of modern politics. Their advocacy is vital to our party’s future.
When conservatives took back America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, from the liberal leadership which had hijacked it, we used the same strategies and tactics that make the NFRA so potent a force today. Those strategies worked flawlessly then, and they’ll work as conservatives assert themselves in the Republican Party today.
In a political world of rapid changing institutions, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies stands as an anchor of principles on which conservative political leaders can depend. I am proud to be a member of the California Republican Assembly and to stand with Republican Assemblies all across America as they take back our party for true conservatives and stand for the values we hold dear.
The Republican Assemblies are truly a force for renewal within the Republican Party.
The Republican Assemblies are the conscience of the Republican Party.
Unlike too many other Republicans today, [the Republican Assemblies] stand strongly for the moral foundation of our Republic, which is that we are created equal and endowed by our Creator, not by our leaders, with our rights.
I am honored to stand with the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, one of the strongest voices for conservative values and a revitalized Republican Party in America.
If you want to see Reagan conservatives running the Republican Party, then the NFRA is where you need to be.
The NFRA can play a major role in the remaking of our Party. It can certainly be the organizational power behind the Tea Parties, working with those groups to give organizational effect to their outrage and passion.
The Republican Assemblies were the Tea Party movement before there was a Tea Party.
While many so-called Republican leaders would surrender the Culture War and sell out our sovereignty, the NFRA is a bastion of hope standing against them, and standing for a Constitutionalist America.
The NFRA endorsed me early, and it made a huge difference in the outcome of my race. Why? Because the Republican Assemblies are the real grassroots, the true conservatives, the soul of the Republican Party. And if you want more Marco Rubios, more Nikki Haleys and more Sharron Angles, getting involved in the Republican Assemblies is the way to make it happen.
The Republican Assemblies work tirelessly for conservative candidates and legislation.
The NFRA has never been more important than it is right now. We no longer have the luxury to nominate Republicans who, once elected, undermine the principles of individual freedom and limited government that define our party. Republican Assemblies across the country have kept the conservative movement alive and the future of our party and of our country ultimately depends on their success.
I’ve been a Republican all my life, was a precinct committeewoman for 16 years, president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women for five years, attended every Republican National Convention starting in 1952, and served on the Platform Committee in 1984. I’m proud to be a charter member of the NFRA because I know it is doing the absolutely necessary work of restoring the Republican Party to its proper position of leadership for authentic conservative principles.
The NFRA is the flagship of constitutionalist conservatism within the Republican Party. It is intent on making sure the federal government has limited powers and the states have an independent sovereign place in our system of government. If we, the people, are to arrest the Obama march to collectivism, social democracy and an imperial presidency, we must swell the ranks of the NFRA and maintain its status as a principled defender of liberty.
When I was a high school student, Phyllis Schlafly’s book, A Choice, Not an Echo, was an important influence on my political direction. Today I support the NFRA for that same reason. The Republican Party must be more than just a cheaper, slower echo of the Democrats: it must be a distinct choice, for conservative values and for a future of freedom. If you long for that choice, then you should join the NFRA.
We need more people like you [the Republican Assemblies] who truly believe in the Constitution, in liberty and in standing up to an establishment that believes in neither.
The loyal patriots of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies…stand for the enduring principles that have made our Nation great. I thank the NFRA for standing at the ready to defend freedom and liberty no matter what the cost. Real hope is alive in the NFRA.RNC Leadership Missing in Action
Editor's Note: We are reprinting Andrew Cline's "Steele Drums " from The American Spectator in full here. We encourage you to visit the original.
He's been in charge for only a month, but the flashy new chief executive is performing so poorly that some who voted for him are already having buyer's remorse. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele ought to be rejoicing. Except, he's the one we're talking about.
Steele was supposed to be President Obama's nemesis. He had extensive experience as a cable TV commentator. He spoke well. He was reputed to be someone who could articulately rebut the eloquent President. (And being the same race as the president didn't hurt.)
Alas, Steele is challenging Obama for most bumbling start in office this year. Actually, Steele is leading in that contest. President Obama's stumbles are more consequential, but he at least has scored some victories. What win has the RNC chairman achieved since taking office?
Steele had to do three things upon taking office: 1) effectively present the opposition's case against a president and majority party that currently enjoy widespread goodwill and public support; 2) get the RNC's fund-raising and communications operations running at full force; 3) map a long-term strategy for rebuilding a party that has lost a great deal of its appeal to voters. He has done none of these things.
President Obama has given the Republicans more opportunities than even Rush Limbaugh could have hoped for on inauguration day. Every time the president or his treasury secretary speaks about the economy, the markets plunge. Having complained for years about the size of the federal deficit, the president has proposed a budget with a deficit more than twice as large (as a percentage of GDP) as even FDR dared create during the New Deal. For a politician who talked incessantly about bipartisanship, the president has at times gone out of his way to offend people who disagree with him (undoing President Bush's compromise on stem cell research is the latest example).
And yet the RNC chairman has let President Obama's amazingly inept first month in office go by with hardly a criticism. Sure, there was a radio address and the op-ed complaining about the spending in the stimulus bill. (How much did you hear about that in the press?) But amid all of Obama's blind-man-like stumbling, Steele has thought it a much better use of his time to criticize Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party. Maybe he thinks Obama will implode on his own, so why not get on with sewing an even bigger tent to put the ever shrinking GOP into?
The New York Times headline on its Sunday profile of Steele: "New Chairman Boos GOP When He's Not Cheerleading." Steele thought it constructive to tell the Times , "I'm trying to move an elephant that's become mired in its own muck."
It's one thing to admit that your party faces some self-inflicted challenges. It's quite another to insult it and the people who belong to it. When Steele criticizes Republicans for being country clubbers who aren't interested in minority outreach (which is painting with far too broad a brush), he helps the other side.
He famously called Rush Limbaugh's show "incendiary" and "ugly." The foolishness of that comment is self-evident. However, what was Steele doing on CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" -- on the same show with gangster-rapper Chuck D -- in the first place? Let's get this straight. Steele calls Limbaugh ugly and incendiary on the show of the comedian who called the Rutgers women's basketball team "some of the ugliest women I've seen in my whole life" and whose stand-up act is so filled with profanity the bleeps would drown out the rest of the monologue if it were aired on broadcast TV. It was such a great show, CNN pulled the plug on it a few days after Steele's appearance.
Steele doesn't seem to know what his job is. Here he is trying to explain it:
"That's my job, is to put good candidates in a position to win." Fox News Sunday , Feb. 1.
"Look, I'm not in the business of hurting people's feelings here.… My job is to try to bring us all together." Politico.com , March 2.
"I'm in the business of ticking people off. That's why I'm chairman." Washington Post , March. 5.
I don't think Steele really has a grasp of what his job actually is. He has yet to appoint a communications director, for example. The "press" section of the RNC website contains not a single press release. It directs reporters and anyone else interested in getting the latest statements from the GOP to call or e-mail the party.
The RNC issued 11 press releases in the entire month of February and three so far this month. The party did not even send a press release congratulating Steele on his election as chairman, although the Democratic National Committee did.
The first thing Steele did upon taking the RNC job was clean house. He still has yet to fill 70 positions, the New York Times reported on Sunday. But he's been on TV a lot. He has even said he would do a hip-hop duel with Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert. That he will find time for. Hiring a finance director for the RNC? Eh, maybe one day.
The tail end of the New York Times story says much about Steele's priorities:
"I'm very spontaneous," he said, comparing working with him to riding a roller coaster without knowing when the next dip or curve might come.
"Be prepared; you have no idea," he said. "Just buckle up and get ready to go."
You, dear Republican, have no idea where Michael Steele is going. And neither, apparently, does he. But, hey, you'd better buckle up because it's going to be a lot of fun. Isn't that what roller coasters are for?
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