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  • Roland Smith

    for
    The Republican Party of Virginia's

    State Central Committee

    11th Congressional District

  • Working to Restore
    Founding Principles

  • to the Governance of Our Commonwealth

  • while Elevating the Voice of Our Republican Grass Roots at State Central

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Our Place
in the Nation
and in History
The Virginia Legacy
Our Principles
On which we were founded
Our Party
as a Hope
for Our Future

Our Place in the Nation and in History

The Virginia Legacy
The Commonwealth of Virginia enjoys a very special place in history. We were the first American Colony with the first English Colonial Settlement established at Jamestown in 1607. Later, in 1624, Virginia became a Royal Colony. As the English Colonization of America grew, more colonies sprang-up both north and south of us, and we found ourselves at more-or-less the geographical center of this cluster of neighboring colonies. As the colonies grew and flourished, we also found ourselves at the more-or-less center of the debates of the day and brought a great deal of influence to this discourse with such powerful voices as those of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, George Wythe, Peyton and Edmund Randolph, James Madison and George Washington. It was out of this discourse that the foundation of our nation’s principles – our Founding Principles – were hewn and laid in place. Later, Virginia gave the our new nation four of the first five presidents.
Even now, after the addition of many states, we are still very close to the center of things as we border our Nation’s Capital and our role of influencer continues.
Virginia has a powerful legacy that we have been blessed to inherit. We need to cherish it, honor it, and do everything in our power to preserve the principles on which it was founded – for the good of our People – for the good of our Commonwealth – for the good of our Nation.
Today, we are under attack by those who would undermine those Founding Principles and seek to destroy us from within. The way things appear, the Republican Party of Virginia may be the only political agency still standing that can defend against this attack in our state and bring Founding Principles back to the Governance of our Commonwealth.

Our Principles

On Which We Wer Founded
“Winning Again” May Not Be a 'Winning' Slogan
So many in Our Party are saying “We Need to Start Winning Again”. This phrase, or one like it, is pervasive. It’s seen and heard everywhere you turn. It seems to be used as both a reason and strategy in and of itself. But when you examine that slogan closely, it seems to ring hollow.
Here are three (3) reasons why “Winning Again” may not be a ‘Winning’ slogan:
1) It’s a Message only to the Republicans:
Think about it. I can see where that would stir-up the home team. But when was the last time you were convinced to cheer for a different team – or especially an opposing team – because their slogan was “We Want to Win Again” or “Let’s Start Winning Again”?

We have to market principled messages in powerful ways that appeal to a broad majority of voters. Not just Republicans.
2) “Winning Again” is not a Reason – It’s the result of Reason:
Unaccompanied by a reason to win, this slogan is empty because it does not speak to “Why” we need to win. This is troubling because it is dangerously close to claiming a naked desire for power, for power’s sake. In my view, one of the key things that makes Republicans different from our adversaries is - We believe in the power of ideas. Our adversaries believe in the idea of power.
This certainly does not mean we should not want Republicans to win. Our Party has the better ideas, by far! But we need to understand our purpose in winning – what we will accomplish if we do so. Only then can we be prepared to give people a reason to vote for our candidates.
- We Need to Give All Virginians, not just Republicans, a Reason to Vote for Us -
3) “Winning Again” is not a Strategy – It’s an Outcome of a Strategy:
Unaccompanied by a strategy, “Winning Again” is just wishful thinking. Winning is what happens when you do better than your competition. Wanting to win a football game does not get the job done. You need a plan – a strategy.
So, what is our plan? What is our strategy to win the majority of votes in our races? May I suggest we begin that development by considering two initial objectives:

> Know and Understand Our Own Principles
Study and come to a clear understanding of the principles we stand for as Republicans and how they benefit everyone in our communities
> Help Others to Know and Understand our Principles
Convincingly communicate those principles to folks – both inside and outside the Party – explaining why they benefit all people of our communities – from the neighborhood to the nation – when they are employed
As we do this, it will better equip us to properly develop messages that apply these Principles to the issues of our day.

Our Nation has been blessed by these Principles. Principles that Republicans reclaimed and carried forward. So we have much to be thankful for in both our American and Republican Heritage. But like a Family History that hasn’t been told to the upcoming generation, the history dies in the silence and the knowledge of family heritage is lost. Family Histories only live on in the re-telling. And so it is up to us to re-tell this story – not just to Republicans so they can know it by heart – but to all Virginians.

Yes, we want to win again. But it is because we have a reason for winning – a reason that benefits all Virginians. Accordingly, we don’t want to only reach Republicans with this message. We want all Virginians to hear our message, so that we might re-secure the blessings of “…Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…” for all of our Commonwealth.

So let’s come up with a better slogan or slogans.

Our Party as a Hope for Virginia’s Future

We're It! - It's Up to Us!
Perhaps it was just wishful thinking on my part, but for many years, I believed in the possibility of a nation where the major political parties would debate, battle and compete before voters to present plans genuinely intended to improve America. Such a debate and competition for ideas can stir us to rigorously consider the different aspects and impacts of various political propositions, and then vote accordingly. So went my belief. I actually thought that there was a time back there – "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ..." – when that may have actually occurred and we just needed to re-discover its secrets.
Over time, this notion began to fade like the memory of a dream after you get up in the morning. If this was ever true in our Nation’s past, it seems that it is no longer a possibility – the dream of it increasingly unlikely to ever come true.
The only debates of value appear to be happening within our own party, not across the great political divide.
And so it is, we find ourselves in a fierce battle today. But rather than a battle over competing strategies to improve America, this is a battle for the survival of America. A war is raging between those who would preserve and strengthen America as Founded (that would be us) and those who would fundamentally transform America and destroy those foundations (that would be the Dems). That is the landscape of battlefield.

The Democratic Party no longer believes in the Principles on which our nation was founded. Accordingly, the Republican Party is the only political agency left standing to carry the mantle – to carry-out the mission of continuing the nation as founded and conveying it intact to the next generation that follows us.

We are the ones left to ‘Stand in the Gap’.
We’re it!
Our Party is the only thing that stands between us and a Marxist takeover in Our Commonwealth!
The immediate problem we face is that our army – our Republican Party of Virginia – is in shambles. The leadership has become corrupt and obstacles have been deliberately put in place to stifle our participation. That means we have to re-take our own Party, before we can re-take Virginia.
If you elect me to State Central as your representative, I pledge I will work to do that.
This is anything but a ‘Business as Usual’ Election. We have a lot at stake.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

We Believe in the Power of Ideas, Our Adversaries Believe in the Idea of Power

- RFSmith 2017
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My Commitment
Working to Bring Back Founding Principles to the Governance of Our Commonwealth,
While Giving the Voice Back to the Grass Roots of Our Party
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