Reince Priebus – Wisconsin Shenanigans
Scott Rohter , May 2012
The word was when Reince Priebus was first being touted for a position as the National GOP Chairman in January 2011, that he was a good strong conservative from Madison Wisconsin. Hummm… I thought. “A strong conservative voice from Madison Wisconsin.” Is that even possible?.. While I thought it was a bit unlikely that such a thing could actually be coming from a place like Madison, the home of the University of Wisconsin, nevertheless I stifled my skepticism and tried to keep an open mind. A lot of things are possible you know… especially in the land of Vince Lombardi ! And so after six unsuccessful attempts to elect a Party Chairman, a deadlocked group of Republican delegates to their Party’s Central Committee elected Reinhold Priebus, attorney and a former Wisconsin State Party Chair, to lead the National Republican Party on January 14, 2011 in an unprecedented seventh ballot.
My first inkling that something wasn’t quite right though,… that his performance didn’t quite match up to all of the rhetoric, was when my calls to the RNC did not get returned, not by him or by anyone else. My next observation was when Mitt Romney got caught red-handed trying to steal the Iowa State caucuses away from Rick Santorum. Then nearly the same thing happened again, I think it was either in Maine or New Hampshire. My initial pause for thought over Reince Priebus was now causing me to slow down a little bit and take notice.
Once more in Ohio there were serious violations of the official Republican Party rules governing Primaries with respect to the apportioning of delegates. This was cited by the Santorum campaign. All of these things were going on under the watchful eye of the National Republican Party Chairman, Reince Priebus! When Texas wanted to go to a winner take all Primary last month, (and it was perfectly legal for them to do so) the RNC found some way to stop them. There was that too. Then all of a sudden and for no apparent reason, Rick Santorum suspended his Presidential campaign, when he was really doing quite well against The Establishment’s favorite candidate Mitt Romney,.. and with comparatively little resources.
Now under Reince Priebus’ watch there is blatant and open candidate favoritism going on during the remainder of the GOP Primary (against the rules) while there are still two candidates left in the race, which by the way is not over yet, not at least until Mitt Romney racks up the magic number of delegates… (I think the official number is 1144). Maybe the Republican Party does not think that Ron Paul is actually a real candidate in this race? I know they wish that he wasn’t! But he is! So now my original pause for thought has turned into an abrupt, screeching halt!
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It looked until very recently like either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, who were jockeying back and forth in the polls, were a “shoe-in” to win the GOP Primary. But that was before Rick Santorum took off, i.e. Rick Santorum’s Presidential campaign blasted off form the Primary launch pad. It blasted off like a giant Atlas V Rocket with two solid propellant booster tanks strapped securely to its sides, and a Presidential candidate’s capsule mounted firmly atop the powerful launch vehicle, which was aimed directly at Washington D.C. with a soft targeted landing planned for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue sometime between November 2nd 2012 and January 20th 2013.
Right now about all I can say is, Go Rick Go! There is just way too much stuff to overlook in order to vote for either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney. I mean what with Newt’s perennial marital infidelities and his disregard for solemn vows that he swore to uphold, his twenty year career as a big government politician who grew the size of the federal government, voted to create the Department of Education, voted to surrender American sovereignty to GATT, voted for NAFTA, his affinity for Alvin Toffler’s books calling for the destruction of the existing world order and the creation of a new world order, his resignation from Congress in disgrace in 1999 over admitted ethics violations, and his most recent career as a Washington D.C. lobbyist cashing in on all of his political connections, “Newt Gingrich the sequel” would make a much better movie than a President.
To be fair I could also vote for Ron Paul, who along with Rick Santorum are the only two honest candidates left in the race. Paul like Santorum seems to have learned not to tell a lie at a very early age, and they didn’t forget that very important lesson after they grew up, like Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney did. Our Founding Fathers warned us about the importance of good character in selecting our leaders. George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Harrison among others all told us that honesty and integrity matter more than anything else when selecting our leaders. Heaven help us if we don’t follow their advice. Oh there I go talking about outer space again.
Ron Paul and Rick Santorum both have the kind of character that our founding fathers would be well satisfied with. Just like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who learned not to tell lies at an early age, Paul and Santorum have never forgotten that lesson later in life just in order to become successful. In fact Benjamin Harrison, our 23rd President put it best when he said, “Vacillating and inconsistency are as incompatible with personal success as they are with self-respect and human dignity.” Reprisal
Freedom of speech is not a slogan. It is not a bumper sticker. Free speech is more than mere empty words. Just as I believe in free speech, and free markets, I also believe that more freedom, not less freedom, is the solution for what is wrong with our country. I believe that freedom is The Best Antidote for What Ails Us. It is the strongest antiseptic for what evils have infected our body politick, and our ‘public square’, right down to our local city or county government.
What the Republican Party has been doing for the past 20 years in Oregon has not been working! I’m suggesting a totally different strategy, and part of that strategy includes the free exchange of ideas and opinions on Republican websites. Let the best ideas prevail. If you think that you can turn this Party around, through some sleight of hand, and that you can turn this country around with just more of the same old same old, or some slight tweaks here and there around the edges, and some careful strategizing on your part, then you are sorely mistaken. Young people are not stupid. They want to be free. Someone just needs to explain to them what freedom is about and the responsibilities that go along with it. Does trying to suppress freedom of speech in any way sound like you actually believe in freedom, yourself?
The Republican Party needs a face lift. Those of us who have the courage to stand up to the Establishment are the face of that lift. Stand with me. The reason that the Republican Party has been nearly irrelevant in Oregon for most of the last 20 years is not because it was too conservative. It is because it didn’t successfully explain conservative ideas and make a convincing case for them. I want to change that by proving that Freedom is superior to the bankrupt ideology of dependence on the Federal government, as favored by the Democrats.
If you want to distance yourself from me, you can go right ahead, but you are heading in the wrong direction, and the winds of change are strongly blowing against you. That’s not how you, or this Republican Party is going to foster the much needed conservative changes along. And that’s not how we are going to move this country back to the Right. We have moved so far to the Left in this country that we can’t even begin to see where the Center is anymore. The only thing you will achieve from this kind of behavior is that you might elect more middle of the road Republicans, who won’t move this country anywhere at all. You might win one or two General Elections here and there if you’re lucky with a strategy like that, but that’s about it!
The final thing I want to say is this. It is important that when liberals decide to run for office as Republicans, they know that they are going to get vigorously challenged, and that their liberal or progressive ideas and records will be exposed, just like I am doing right now with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. That is the only way we are ever going to get real conservatives elected to office, and it is the only hope that we have of actually changing the unfortunate status quo in our country.


Nibbling Away at Our Bill of Rights
So then if we can just remember these things, then maybe the same fervor that stirred up our country’s founders will also enable us to prove ourselves worthy of their sacrifices. Let us at least try to prove ourselves worthy of all that those before us have accomplished. Amen.
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