Grow Your Own

[billbuckhead]

Here's an excellent article about how Republicans build their team with excepts from toward the end.

Grow Your Own
by Nancy Goldstein for PageOneQ
Page One News Media Syndicate

<http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Grow_Your_06_02_2005_1240am.html>

While the Democratic leadership sat back and assumed the superior attractions of their platform to youth, the Republicans were going door-to-door actively recruiting members. But once the AFL-CIO stopped playing a leading role in get-out-the-vote initiatives, the Democrats were left with no ground game at all -- no equivalent to the pro-active grassroots powerhouse the right had been building for years with the assistance of youth leaders like Norquist and Reed.

They're building it still.

Consider the "My Party, Too!" link on CRNC's site, which leads you to special outreach groups for Jews, women, minorities, and American Muslims. There's something for everyone, and each page's Siren song is pitched to the perceived desires of the intended audience. Young people of color may well be charmed by the bilingual "minority" page and the promise that they'll be "aggressively recruited." Jewish Outreach "seeks to educate students about the Republican Party's respect for Jewish values." The American Muslims page declares, "John Kerry and his fellow Democrats do not share the beliefs that are presented in the Koran." Women to Watch promises "to identify, recruit, educate, train, and motivate college women of all ethnicities and backgrounds to become informed advocates, active players and future candidates in the Republican Party."

By contrast, the College Democrats of America website offers no assurances about being wanted, valued, developed, promoted, or funded. There's lots of mushy talk about fairness and equality, but what young person who has actually been following politics for the past four years with even one eye open really believes that these are the core values of a party that supported the war in Iraq, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the bankruptcy bill?

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[kliljedahl]

1. Damn I thought this was a Pot "how to" thread

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Me, too. :-)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. me three. dang it. eom

[NorCalDem]

4. Me 4

20 that is :D