Dan Bongino, the 2012 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, came to visit the University of Maryland College Republicans on Monday night. He gave a talk that lasted just under an hour and his message was brilliant. I thought I already knew so much about what it means to be Republican and Conservative, but I learned so much more that night.
"The Republican party does not have a message problem, it has a marketing problem," was probably the biggest point Bongino hit on during his talk and it really stuck with me. Clearly there is nothing wrong with the Republican message, he said, because Obama adopted it as his own during both of his campaigns.
Bongino talked us through it and it all made sense. Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term. He promised to lower taxes on the middle class. He promised to work for legislation that would actually create jobs. He hasn't and never will do and of those things and has in fact done the complete opposite on all fronts, but those are all stalwart Republican ideas and they were the buzz words that got him elected.
Therefore, there is no need to rush out and start overhauling the GOP message. The message is fine. We just have to get the message out there anyway we can. We have to use our personal Facebook pages, our Twitters, Instagrams, etc. to get what we stand for out there. We don't have the media and we never will, so that's something we just have to accept. And we can't let "political correctness" or the fear of making people mad hold our voices back. "What's more important to you?" Bongino asked us. "Losing a few friends on Facebook over political posts or losing your country?"
Jimmy Williams
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