REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE LACKS LEADERSHIP

The Republican National Committee has fired its Chief of Staff, Ken McKay, after GOP funds were spent at an outing in a California lesbian strip club. This comes after the RNC last week fired Allison Meyers, the staffer who set the adventure up, and Curt Anderson, a senior staffer. Mike Leavitt has been named as the new Chief of Staff. Leavitt is totally unknown to most Americans; he’s not the same Mike Leavitt as the former Utah Governor who served at the EPA and DHHS as Secretary for George W. Bush.

The RNC has elected to retain its Chairman, Michael Steele, in the driver’s seat. Steele insisted on Monday that he would not resign in spite of accusations of excessive spending. Steele is said to have engineered the departures in an effort to insulate himself from the scandal. Infighting at the RNC is escalating and has alienated several key members.

I have made no bones about my position with respect to the Republicans. They share blame for this national health care bill because they failed to address our health care problems when they were in control of Washington. They have been just as much to blame for the past corruption and lack of ethics in Congress as their Democratic opponents. Just seven months from the November elections, the GOP has failed to come out against that corruption or lack of ethics; they have yet to agree with the majority of Americans who are fed up with the way our nation is being run.

Instead, it seems to me that the GOP is more focused on getting even than in righting a disastrous wrong that has been perpetrated on America. Steele and others have yet to develop a cohesive strategy for dealing with the issues at hand and they have also been treating the American Tea Party as if they expect the party to throw its support to Republican candidates in November. They fail to recognize that over 50% of the Tea Party members are not Republicans, but either Democrats or Independents, and the Tea Party seems more interested in picking the best candidates for jobs as opposed to simply picking Republicans.

From what I can see right now, the RNC is in disarray. Their Chairman seems unable to ensure that staffers will abide by ethical and moral standards or that adequate safeguards of party funds have been installed. I sure don’t want to contribute a dime to the RNC in this atmosphere, and there are tens of thousands of Republicans who are expressing the same concerns. In fact, fund-raising at the RNC is running on desperation mode.

If I didn’t hope better, I’d say this was all deliberate, part of a conspiracy to keep Obama and his socialist-Marxist regime in power. One thing I do know is , if the RNC doesn’t show strong, firm and decisive leadership within the next few weeks, it’s not going to save itself from extinction, let alone capture many seats in Congress.

There now. They’ve been warned. If they fall flat on their rears, they can’t blame me.