01/25/10

From CNS News

Republicans Head to Waikiki to Work on Strategy

By Herbert A. Sample, Associated Press


Honolulu (AP) - A high-tax, big-government Democratic bastion for five decades and President Barack Obama's birthplace, Hawaii would seem a curious place for the Republican National Committee to hold its winter meeting.

But riding high after Republican Scott Brown's surprise victory in last week's Senate race in another Democratic stronghold, Massachusetts, 168 RNC delegates are arriving Wednesday unconcerned about this isolated island state's past political proclivities.

On the heels of Massachusetts plus GOP triumphs in New Jersey and Virginia governor's races last fall, Republicans are invigorated after national elections that saw them lose control of Congress and then the White House. Yet the party faces deep internal divisions and other problems at the opening of the 2010 election season

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Seems to me that when the congressional democrats and various lower government officials are jetting around the world blowing tax money on business trips to vacation spots, it would be an excellent time for the RNC to show some conservative fiscal restraint and hold their meeting in a moderate-priced hotel in Iowa. True, they didn't spend any tax money (I hope) on this trip, but I doubt that they paid for it out of pocket. I suspect that it was paid for by all the little republicans around the country who sent a check to the republican party fund drive hoping to get their candidate elected. If they send me a postpaid return envelope with the next fund drive, I'll send them a copy of this along with some junk mail to weigh it down.