The Democrats are reporting today that the GOP’s traditional Idaho bus tour has been cancelled. The Dems, of course, believe this is because the GOP doesn’t want to trundle through the countryside and face angry voters. But Idaho is still a red state, so that theory doesn’t wash with me.
While I don’t quite swallow that “high gas prices” are to blame for the GOP’s bus tour cancellation, it does cause me to pause. Because this site is often accused of being in the GOP’s pocket, I’d like to ask my friends in the GOP why the tour was cancelled?
I would shudder to think that my happy elephant pals are more concerned about forming post-election-defeat Ron Paul lynch squads than promoting the party message. But from what I’ve heard locally, that appears to be exactly the case. Obviously beating up fellow Republicans is more important to the old line GOP than the party’s mission of getting Republicans elected.
Tell me it isn’t so.
Dan, I think you’re over the line here. I don’t know the reason for the cancellation of the bus tour, but your theory about “Ron Paul lynch squads” is not only overreaching, it’s insulting. Yes, it seems there is serious controversy within the local Republican party over the ideological split between traditional Republicans and Ron Paul supporters, but your comments seem very one-sided and unfair.
I’d like to hear from others, on both sides of this issue.
Comment by mary — October 29, 2008 @ 10:41 am
The KC GOP is broken, Mary. The leadership is not listening and refuses to accept elected CC members who supported Ron Paul, and they’ve declared war on elected officials who dared support Ron Paul. That does not speak of unity. It speaks of people who are the problem and who are preventing the party from achieving its mission.
I know what a political litmus test is. I’ve seen them before. They are bad and this kind of one-sided ignorance on behalf of some CC members is appalling and bad for the party.
Comment by Dan — October 29, 2008 @ 11:44 am
this is not just a county problem, the national and state gop organizations are also broken, witness the finger pointing within the mccain campaign, defections of gop stalwarts to support a democratic candidate and locally the semanko-sullivan battle fractured the state party. battle lines are being drawn…
Comment by reagan — October 29, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
both parties are ‘broken’ in the sense they are disconnected from the people. if y’all think the kcgop is busted talk to the puma crowd about what the obamaniacs have done to the party of clinton. it is simply classic organizational behavior. let the ron paul peeple take control and they will over time act the same way the bushbots have and the ronnie raygunners did and so on.
Comment by TheWiz — October 30, 2008 @ 8:45 am