K. Ryan James, a loyal conservative Republican and fellow Arkansan works inside the beltway of Washington, D.C.. Today he wrote an interesting piece addressing the potential for advances by the Arkansas GOP by 2010. The question will be whether the Republican Party of Arkansas quickly develops an effective message and builds on the present opportunities to expand the influence of the GOP in Arkansas. Ryan reflects: I would submit that Arkansas is fertile ground for Republicans. Now I know there will be some naysayers who will point to the massive number of state and locally elected Democrats as a reason why the GOP has no chance in my home state.Ryan provides some interesting statistics and adds:
That is certainly a factor, but these numbers show that there may be an window of opportunity, especially considering that we will have gone through two years of some curious votes by Democratic members of the Arkansas delegation in order to remain in the good graces of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and their union money connections.
As you can see, even in Arkansas’ most liberal-leaning district (AR-02), Barack Obama lost by nearly ten points. Can some of these numbers be votes against the guy who beat Hillary Clinton, or the guy who looked different, instead of a vote for John McCain? Yes. But some of those votes could also be attributed to a rejection of liberalism as personified by Barack Obama.[Full article - "Target 2010: Arkansas"]
It is my hope that the Republican Party of Arkansas does not waste this opportunity in 2010. While it is important to strengthen the bench in local and state races, it is also important to use the current talent we have operating at a high level to challenge the sitting incumbent Democrats who may show us a conservative face at home, yet voted with Pelosi in the last Congress . . .
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