Blog Challenge: How can Republicans overcome self funding celebrities or popular businesspersons and become the party of the majority again?

This is a question that needs to be broken apart.

How can Republicans overcome self funding celebrities or popular businesspersons?

Why would we?

A celebrity or popular business person begins with one or two the most valuable things in politics – name ID & money.

If a celebrity brings multi-millions in name ID then that is money a campaign can spend on other things other than establishing a bio.

For example, I don’t know Tim Tebow outside his press, but if he wanted to run for a Congressional seat in NW Florida, he would start with a massive advantage. He would start on third base and sometimes depending on context that is enough. Would he be a good candidate? No idea.

If a self-funding popular business person brings millions to the table that is valuable time a campaign can spend on other things. Early money is one of the largest early strategic advantages a campaign can have.

I think what you are really asking is how can we overcome running terrible self-funding celebrities or terrible popular businesspersons, right? The answer is stop supporting them.

How can Republicans become the party of the majority again?

In some places the Republicans are a majority and in some places even a super-majority, but I think you are asking about national / presidential politics.

A multi-part answer:

Better candidates: As we have seen, and will likely see today, name ID combined with terrible candidate quality isn’t a great combination.
Govern: The American people want their government to look slightly better than a middle school cafeteria food fight (well most of us do). A Congress that can govern would go a long way.
STOP the stupid shit: Stop enabling the antisemitic, racist, 4chan crowds.
Suburban Women : right now this seems to be the vote most in flux. They are picking of the less of two scary versions and you never want to mess with moms.
Embrace the Democrats mistakes. As they have shown, there will be many.

Conclusion

Celebrity or self – funded candidates aren’t necessarily a terrible thing, and they can offer tremendous advantages. Let’s just stop picking and promoting terrible ones.

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