I think that when this meeting convenes the first order of business should be the firing of every one of them. These GOP leaders are the ones responsible for the mess they are in.------------------------------

Posted on Sat, Nov. 01, 2008
National GOP leaders to reconvene on Grand Strand
By Robert Morris
rmorris@thesunnews.com
A week and a half after Tuesday's presidential election, Republican leaders from around the country will return to the Grand Strand for a conference on the party's future.

S.C. Republican Party chairman Katon Dawson and a committee of 15 members of the Republican National Committee will be hosting a meeting called ``Renew. Reform. Restore.'' at Premier Resort Barefoot in North Myrtle Beach, according to an invitation to the event.

"I would like to invite you now to an event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, November 14-16 to discuss the lessons learned from the 2008 campaign, what we can do better and what it will take to win in 2010,'' Dawson writes in the invitation.

Dawson was unable to elaborate on the conference this weekend, said S.C. Republican Party spokesman Rob Godfrey, but details will be finalized after the election.

"Chairman Dawson is passionately focused on Tuesday's election and delivering eight electoral votes to John McCain, re-electing Lindsey Graham and Henry Brown and electing Republicans up and down the ballot,'' Godfrey said. "He is spending the weekend knocking on doors, making phone calls, putting out yard signs and working around the clock to turn out Republican voters.''

According to an article in Friday's New York Times, Dawson is openly campaigning within the party to be named the Republican National Committee's next chairman in January. The North Myrtle Beach conference, according to the article, is part of a national conversation Republicans are already having ``over how to rehabilitate the image of their party'' after the Bush administration and a controversial McCain presidential campaign.

Myrtle Beach already played a central role in the presidential election in January, when it hosted debates for both Republican and Democratic contendors just before the state's early primaries.

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