Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is optimistic about Republican
chances to rebound after last week's electoral losses, but says the
party will need to undergo an introspective "proctology exam" before
moving forward.
"The ground game is really important, and we have
to be, I mean, we've got to give our political organizational activity a
very serious proctology exam," Barbour said. "We need to look
everywhere."
Barbour made the comments during a Republican Governors Association conference in Las Vegas, first reported by CNN.
"We
can catch up in four years doing this," Barbour continued. "This isn't
rocket science, but it is hard work that we can't wait and start in
2016."
Barbour, now a top GOP fundraiser, went on to prescribe a "brutally honest assessment of everything we did."
And
according to officials at the Republican National Committee (RNC), they
plan just that. Party officials said last week that they would begin a
thorough review of their strategy and message, and bring in outside
firms to evaluate their field operation.
“We’ve got to know what they did well,” RNC spokesman Sean Spicer told
The Washington Post,
referring to Democrats. “We’ve got to give them credit; they won. We
need to know what we’re going to be up against in 2013, 2014 and 2016.”
