Although I understand the gist of what you are trying to say, there are still a few points that I need further clarification on….

How many Republicans do you know that actually talk with strangers - people in the check-out line behind you at the store, the waitress serving you a meal, etc - who cross their paths every day about the core Republican principles? Advertising of the least expensive and the most valued kind is the word-of-mouth advertising.

Heck, there are many people today that believe in strong family values, enjoy the income tax cuts - proposed by a Republican President passed by a Republican Congress - who would like to see the size of government (and it’s overspending) reduced, who think that government has no business dictating their personal lives, who would certainly like to know that there would be a social security system available to them when they retire, etc. BUT, they have never been educated in the fact that the Republican Party stands for these same ideals. Change the recipe - No, increase the amount of word-of-mouth advertising by individual Republicans - Yes.

As for your invitation to lunch - please see the email I sent you.

As for voter registration efforts and contributions to the RNC, NRCC, and NRSC and to individual Republican Candidates nationwide, are things I have done and continue to do to the best of my ability everyday. In fact 4 Congressional Candidates that I work with are in Primaries today.(6-3-08 NJ & CA) I applaud your local voter registration efforts as well, and hope that the stats for the GOP continue to climb.

You made my point for me! New Coke was not re-branding it was a new product! You will notice Coke does re-branding about every 5 years. Same product inside, but different labels, logos, slogans. It is a must to continue growth! Which coke has done well at. I am loyal member of the GOP as well. I want us to grow and not die off like the Whigs did when they backed a War president. Sage, please stop taking offense at everything that I offer up to help this party grow.

I registered 45 new REP’s today! 17 were DEM’s. Please stop brow beating me! I don’t deserve it! I am here to grow this party. The DEM’s platform is our enemy! Sage we need to have lunch. carlbunce@gmail.com

Carl

Early in 1985, the Coca-Cola Co we started to hear about a new kind of Coke with a different recipe – a new, improved, and even better recipe. From 1983-1985 Coca-Cola had done extensive research, variations of ingredients and extensive taste-testing of its New Coke.” The Coca-Cola Co was certain that this change was going to sweep the country.

On April 23, 1985 New Coke was launched along with a major advertising campaign to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the Coca-Cola Co.

But despite the efforts of Coca-Cola Co, the public opinion was extremely NEGATIVE. People en masse purchased as much of the Old Coke as they could find and shunned the New Coke all together. Some people even went so far as to switch to Pepsi Products!

On July 11, 1985 Coca-Cola Co removed New Coke from its line of products. The President of Coca-Cola Co publically stated that “We did not understand the deep emotions of so many of our customers for Coca-Cola.”

Coca-Cola Co learned some very important - and costly - lessons from the New Coke Campaign:
1- People who enjoy Old Coke did not and do not want it to change
2- Coca-Cola Co thought they were going to make an improvement in Coca-Cola - they found that their customers did not want their so called improvements

So here we are in 2008, and Coca-Cola is made up of the same ingredients that it has had for decades. Their customer base has grown, their company is very financially strong, and they now market Coca-Cola on a GLOBAL Market.

So Carl, for me; I’ll continue to be a loyal member of the Gallant Ol’ Party AND I will continue to drink Good Ol’ Coca-Cola too. In my opinion they are the BEST the World has to offer!

Still not sure what our Gallant Ol’d Party stands for? Check out the “Creed” that was developed at the RNC COnvention in NY 2004. It is available for viewing on gop.com

I agree with you completely! But lets think of the Republican Party as product like “Coca Cola”, most everyone loves Coca Cola, but for some reason, “PEPSI” sales are just so much higher. Lets just say PEPSI is the Socialist Democrats. PEPSI is kicking COKE’s butt week after week in sales. People are just passing COKE by in the stores. To draw on that, this is happening to the Republican Party as well, we are being passed up by people who would like our values if they could just taste them. In the past 2 weeks in Clark County DEM’s have registered 5.6 times as many voters then REP’s. Also Non-partisan voters have more then doubled our registrations. Whatever the reasons are for these events taking place, something has to be done or we are going to lose in the General Election just by numbers alone.

So what does a company like Coca Cola do when sale are dropping and there seems like nothing they do stops it? They “re-brand!” Re-branding is nothing more then changing the color or the packaging, maybe even changing the copy on the product to increase sales. The core product does not change, it is still the same Coke inside the can, or in the REP party’s case it will still have the same great values and ideals. We just have to get rid of the image that voters have of us. We have to give them an image of something new and fresh, that makes them mark [REPUBLICAN] on their Voter Reg Applications. Republicans are being blamed for the ills of this country and it is not our fault, I know that. It is the fault of a few people and bad policies. We have to distance ourselves from those people and policies or we will fail. This is just common business sense! You can not deny it! We can’t live in a little box anymore and think we are going to win in elections with the same image we have now. We have had our hats handed to us in 3 special election already and there is no evidence that it is going to get any better.

I know that Sue understands this and I hope that she will see what needs to be done to insure victories against people like Dina Titus in DEM voter rich environments! From recent experiences, I know exactly what will get NP voters and DEM’s to switch over to REP, do you? I have switched more then 20 in this past weekend, how many have you converted?

Carl

Our Republican Party Platform & Principles will continue to guide us nationally, and locally as well as individually, with Republican-based resolutions to the internal and external challenges we face.

Just a note, your fears of not having a quorum at a reconvene are unfounded. From our “Survey” which Sage claims is so terrible. We have gotten well over the needed numbers for a quorum and 90% percent were willing to head to back Reno, in order to proceed with party business. The party should have done a survey and you would know this as well. Also, some of the comments left were people are outraged at what is going on. McCain delegates as well.

Sample:
“What happened at the convention was a disgrace, I was a McCain supporter from the time of caucus. When someone told me we were leaving because the “Ron Paul” people are staging a coup. I could not believe we would attempt to leave our convention. I am 67 years old and I have never seen such poor show of character by people. I will be in Reno, and I will be supporting the delegates who have character.”

Sage, I find your fears unfounded as well, no one has intentions on going to people houses and bothering them. Please calm down we are not the enemy. We have to unite this party to take out socialist candidates like Dina Titus in the elections. I used to be on a plane to Reno with Dina Titus every Monday morning and evening during 2006, some of the conversations I heard were outright scary. We are going to have to reform the GOP where people in the public actually respect us. The Bush Administration has destroyed our party with the way things have been run, it is time to rebuild. Sue with the right choices you can make Nevada the beacon of the re-branded Republican Party.