What the hell happened in Iowa?

[jon4liberty]

Rand always seems to surprise me with his political abilities. I think we are underestimating Brandstad and company he ran the party in the 80's and still had a strong foothold in 2010. After 2012 with the votes I don't trust them what so ever. Brandstad is just setting it up for Reynolds to take over and she will be just as bad as him. We need to take a leg out from their chair and I really felt Spiker, Fischer, and Grubbs were the men to do it....2016 shall be interesting. I am doing my best to try to wake up Iowans.

 

[juvanya]

What happened is that those guys were grossly incompetent at the job they wanted and got everyone else mad at them.

I always thought this "GOP takeover" was one of the silliest things ever (and wrote several posts here stating that). These party management structures aren't the place for ideologues and surely not for ideological wars. People in these positions need to be able to keep their personal preferences aside and work for the party in its entirety. Your job description in these positions is to support all GOPers running, regardless of their RINOs, Tea Partiers, SoCons, 'establishment', whatever, status. You need to fundraise, for the party and not for particular candidates only, you need to keep good relationships with everyone, especially donors, you need to be inclusive, you need to be able to work alongside every type of Republican, regardless of ideological differences.

These guys had no idea on what running a state party entitled and they obviously crashed, hurting the Paul brand in Iowa for no good reason. Smart of Paul to step up and get the guy out of there.

This is a good point. And with the loss of Bentivolio has also made me question whether we should even bother with the GOP. The LP is grossly incompetent, but with the right reforms and tactics, could win and keep offices consistently. I still support libertarians that run in the GOP however.