There are lots of slick talkers in the world. Now not all slick talking people are shiftless and good for nothing. Some are very talented and accomplished. Some are leaders. Reince Priebus is not one of these slick talking leaders. But he's a leader nonetheless. This guy has pulled the Republican Party back from the brink of being a laughingstock and has started setting up the Party for success.
How?
1. Diversifying the Party. Americas changing. We don't have to look any farther than the White House or our own television set or our own neighborhoods (depending on where we live) to see that. America is becoming the melting pot our forefathers always knew it would become. Reince Preibus sees that and instead of screaming at the waves he's decided to build a bigger boat.
Priebus has a point. He's doing everything in his power make sure Republican candidates have a fair shot at the Presidency. It's what a leader does.
3. Technology. The Republican Party was trounced in the last election. But that doesn't mean it has to stay that way. Preibus has hired a bona fide tech hitter from the Facebook management team. Now, no, he's not Harper Reed, the technical whiz kid who managed to build an elegant flexible architecture that ran a nationwide campaign. But he does have bona fide technical chops. He managed dozens of engineers across different production platforms at Facebook. He is a part of the Silicon Valley community and has worked at LiveScribe (as Senior Engineer), Nvidia and Google.
How?
1. Diversifying the Party. Americas changing. We don't have to look any farther than the White House or our own television set or our own neighborhoods (depending on where we live) to see that. America is becoming the melting pot our forefathers always knew it would become. Reince Preibus sees that and instead of screaming at the waves he's decided to build a bigger boat.
If you can't watch the entire 40 minutes watch from 10:30 - 12:30 (2 minutes) and listen to T.W. Shannon, House Speaker of the State of Oklahoma. He's an African American whose a bona fide Conservative. Not a flavor of the month Conservative but your grandfather's conservative. A type of Conservative that sees Conservativism as a path to success and a way forward to a good solid and better life. To show this type of diversity says to the people of America "Welcome." Reince Preibus is showing Americans that the GOP is not an antiquated party of old white guys but rather a more dynamic party than is being portrayed. Will it get the Black Vote, the Womens Vote, the Latino Vote all by itself? No. But it does allow the conversation to happen and I believe people are more open to that conversation than the Democratic Party thinks.
2. Standing up for the Party. The saying is "Even a broken clock is right twice a day," and Reince Preibus is no broken clock. Often the GOP has launched attacks on the 'liberal mainstream media' that were short on substance and long on rhetoric. But not this time. NBC and CNN really stepped in it when they said they would set up multi-night mini-series about Hilary Clinton (one a docu-drama and another a documentary respectively). But the point is that these networks are planning what amounts to four days of advertising for the Clinton Campaign. Priebus said enough is enough. I couldn't agree more. Watch his exchange with Erin Burnett of CNN below:
Priebus has a point. He's doing everything in his power make sure Republican candidates have a fair shot at the Presidency. It's what a leader does.
3. Technology. The Republican Party was trounced in the last election. But that doesn't mean it has to stay that way. Preibus has hired a bona fide tech hitter from the Facebook management team. Now, no, he's not Harper Reed, the technical whiz kid who managed to build an elegant flexible architecture that ran a nationwide campaign. But he does have bona fide technical chops. He managed dozens of engineers across different production platforms at Facebook. He is a part of the Silicon Valley community and has worked at LiveScribe (as Senior Engineer), Nvidia and Google.
Putting these three points together don't mean that the GOP is anywhere close to a victory come 2016. But Preibus is serving very real notice: don't think about burying anything until you're sure it's dead. And the GOP under Preibus is showing real signs of life.
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