Rhode Island GOP
Before the RI GOP can hope to make political headway, its members must identify what they really stand for, which is something that I wrote about in my last piece. Next, they must turn to the hard work of party building, which means developing and funding candidates. It is here that a fundamental reprioritization needs…
A few days ago, I posted Rebuilding the RI GOP Part I: Forming a Political Philosophy. I’m still working on a follow up post, but Dan Yorke–inspired by an Ed Achorn column that Yorke characterizes as having been written about a million times already–has a rather provocative proposal of his own: dismantle it. I believe…
I think an important distinction needs to be made in this discussion about re-invigorating the Rhode Island Republican Party by “defining conservatism.’ The attempt to excise the social aspects from the holistic definition of conservatism–essentially smaller government and traditional morality–indicates that it’s not conservatism that is being defined so much as Rhode Island Republicanism. The…