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Natrona County Republican Party
 What the Party Can and Can Not Do (A Football Analogy)
In my role as the Chairman of the Natrona County Republican Party (NCRP), I am frequently asked “What are you going to do about all the RINOs in the party?” Conversely I’m asked to not let in any more “tea partiers.”
Over the course of this letter I will put those questions into context and give you a clear picture of what an American political party, or at least the NCRP, is, what it does, how it does it and what it doesn’t do. The short answer to both questions is “That’s not the Party’s job.” What follows is the long answer, along with the answer to “Well, then, whose job is it?”
In my undergraduate days I studied the history of the Soviet Union, the most consequential and largest attempt in its day at applied socialism, otherwise known as communism. I was intrigued to learn that the Soviets had a constitution much like our own, and even could be considered a form of democracy. Go figure! But one of the key differences between the US and Soviet political structures was that theirs was a one-party system, and ours a multi-party, albeit in practice just a two-party, system. In a one party system, the party runs the government. The Communist Party had the power to decide which individuals would be the “candidates” and whether or not individual citizens were sufficiently orthodox and “toeing the party line.” Not so in the US, where the parties compete with each other for the right to handle the reins of government. The opposition party is always there to temper what the other one wants to do, for better and for worse. read more...
Miles Dahlby, Chairman, NCRP
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