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INTERVIEW WITH RNC CHAIRMAN MIKE DUNCAN
By Michael B. Brodkorb | February 8, 2008
I had the opportunity to interview Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Mike Duncan on Wednesday. Let me begin by writing that it's a great opportunity to interview the chairman of the RNC. I had the pleasure to interview Chairman Duncan for my radio show last year and I appreciated the opportunity to speak with him again. The RNC should be complimented for the efforts taken to reach out to proud Republican activists like myself who are also bloggers.
By design, my blog is focused on Minnesota politics and therefore I sometimes miss out on the opportunity to speak with national political leaders for posts on Minnesota Democrats Exposed. Clearly, the RNC recognizes the need to communicate with activists and bloggers at the local level and for that I am very appreciative.
My interview with Chairman Duncan was focused on the results from Super Tuesday (no discussion on the Republican candidates) and the records of Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. Chairman Duncan said that Republicans clearly benefit from a protracted nomination fight between the Democrats (since my interview, DNC Chairman Dean has made similar statements). We did discuss that the Republican nomination process would likely be completed long before the Democrats picked their candidate.
I asked Chairman Duncan that with congressional approval ratings so low for Democrats, what can Clinton or Obama each campaign on if they are the nominee. He quickly responded with "a record of disappointment", which was a great answer. Based on the spirit of his answer, I would expect that the RNC research and communication staff are fully prepared for a battle with either Obama or Clinton.
The new National Journal rankings, which named Senator Obama as the most liberal U.S. Senator in 2007 were mentioned briefly (I would expect to hear more about Obama's ranking). Chairman Duncan said that Obama had a limited and untested record as a U.S. Senator. Chairman Duncan noted that in reality Clinton and Obama will both offer voters the same message of more taxes, more spending, and more government intrusion in our lives. Chairman Duncan said the Republican message will offer voters a clear choice regardless if Clinton or Obama is the Democratic presidential nominee.
I want to thank the communications staff at the RNC for setting up the interview and look forward to interviewing Chairman Duncan and other RNC officials as we get closer to the 2008 elections.
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February 8th, 2008 at 1:22 PM
“I asked Chairman Duncan that with congressional approval ratings so low for Democrats…”
Funny thing: they are even lower for Republicans.
Democrats’ approval has hovered at about 40% over the last year, while Republicans’ approval has been around 32%. You should have asked him how the Republicans can shed their “record of disapointment.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Did you ask him why the national party is moving so far left?
February 18th, 2008 at 1:41 AM
MIKE WHY DONT YOU USE THIS TO SHOW AMERICA WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE DOING TO OUR COUNTRY, THE DOCUMENT BELOW FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY THE DEMOCRATS, THEY HAVE IMPLEMENTED MOST OF THE COMMUNIST GOALS IN AMERICA.
Communist Goals (1963)
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Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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Documentation
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The quote starts on page 259.
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Microfilm:
California State University at San Jose
Clark Library, Government Floor
Phone (408)924-2770
Microfilm
Call Number:
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Congressional Record, Vol. 109
88th Congress, 1st Session
Appendix Pages A1-A2842
Jan. 9-May 7, 1963
Reel 12
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The book was found in the off campus stacks, was ordered and checked. The quote below was checked against the original and is correct. The few errors in the copy from the Congressional Record are shown in [ ] .
The quote starts on page 259.
California State University at San Jose, Clark Library stacks call number:
Naked Communist
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S55
Book title page:
Skousen, W. Cleon. Naked Communist
Salt Lake City, Utah: Ensign Publishing Co.
C. 1961 , 9th edition July 1961.
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