North Dakota Republicans Leading The Charge To Take Back The National Party

North Dakota isn’t exactly known for conservative Republicans (I’m looking at you, spend-happy Governor Hoeven, and you Republican-controlled legislature that never stand up to him), but it does seem as though a couple of Republican leaders in the state are fighting the good fight in trying to bring the national Republican party back to its fiscally conservative roots.
ND GOP Chairman Gary Emineth, along with national committeeman Curly Haugland, are doing their best to say “no” to the status quo in the Republican party.

Some conservative RNC members suspect that the Conservative Steering Committee is not particularly conservative and that allies of Mr. Duncan are using the steering panel meeting to advance his re-election bid.
“What I am after is a level playing field for all candidates and a chance for members to address their concerns,” North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Gary Emineth told The Washington Times.
Mr. Emineth, abetted by RNC members Shawn Steel of California and Curly Haugland of North Dakota, began telephoning and e-mailing other RNC members Monday.
Mr. Emineth’s goal is to solicit enough petitions from RNC members to require Mr. Duncan to call the special meeting of the full committee for the morning of Jan. 6, leaving the steering committee to hold its meeting in the afternoon.
Mr. Duncan, who is seeking a second term as national chairman, was chosen two years ago by Karl Rove, who was then White House chief political strategist.

Republicans can’t expect to keep doing what they’re doing and expect to win elections. We cannot out-Democrat the Democrats. We cannot expect to gain the trust of the voters when the reality of the GOP’s limited government brand is “we’ll grow the government less fast than the other guys.”
The GOP has got to give the voters something to vote for, and more of the same isn’t it.
Go get ‘em, guys.