Is the GOP finally ready to embrace RINOs?

Reince Priebus is set to give a potentially game-changing speech

Reince Priebus: Republican policy game-changer?
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The great and all-knowing Mike Allen got his hands on advance text of remarks that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus plans to deliver at the winter meeting of the RNC in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday. To the casual observer, Priebus' remarks will appear to consist mostly of platitudes and recitations of the obvious. For example, Priebus devotes significant space to the fact that the GOP must harness technology more efficiently to track, monitor, and reach voters, an observation that literally every serious political observer recognized in the wake of the Obama campaign's obvious superiority in the tech sphere. But Priebus also proposes to radically change the way the RNC does business at the national level. Put simply, Priebus' remarks could presage the beginning of a true Republican renewal… if Priebus has the power to turn his words into policy. For example:

We must compete in every state and every region, building relationships with communities we haven't before.... It's time to stop looking at elections through the lens of "battleground states." We have four years till the next presidential election, and being a "blue state" is NOT a permanent diagnosis. [Politico]

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Jeb Golinkin is an attorney from Houston, Texas. You can follow him on twitter @jgolinkin.