GOP ESTABLISHMENT SUFFERS CRUSHING
DEFEAT
In the
end, it wasn’t even close.
Nevada
Republican Party Chairman Michael
McDonald defeated challenger Robert
Uithoven 193-112 in the chairmanship race yesterday at the GOP Central
Committee’s fall meeting at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas.
But
if you understand this Central Committee and how it thinks, this was not really
a rejection of Uithoven.
And
it wasn’t a rejection of the Las Vegas Sands, which clearly has a major problem
– understandably so – with the fact that McDonald is a paid lobbyist for the
hated – understandably so – Culinary Union.
And
it wasn’t a rejection of U.S. Sen. Dean
Heller, even though Heller did, in fact, endorse Uithoven. To the contrary, everyone I spoke with
yesterday was absolutely thrilled that Heller was one of only 19 Republicans in
the Senate to vote NOT to stop the filibuster against ObamaCare!
And
it wasn’t a rejection of all political consultants in general.
No,
this was a total, resounding, embarrassing, humiliating rejection of five very
specific Republicans, all of whom killed Uithoven’s chances by endorsing him…
Gov.
Brian Sandoval, Senate Minority
Leader Moderate Mike Roberson,
Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey…and
the two political consultants who pull the strings of those Three Amigos, Mike Slanker and Pete Ernaut.
And
as I wrote just a few days ago, this result should have come as no
surprise. Indeed, this wasn’t the first
time these GOP leaders got together, backed a candidate for party chair…and
came away with nothing but egg on their faces.
Just
a few short months ago the Three Amigos and their handlers endorsed then-Washoe
County Chairman Dave Buell – the establishment’s
darling who set up a separate bank account in the 2012 election to undermine
and bypass the Nevada Republican Party - only to see Buell go down in flames.
You’d
think after that drubbing the Three Amigos and their handlers would have
learned a lesson. They didn’t. Instead of their endorsements helping to elect
their preferred candidate, their endorsements doomed him. Their endorsements were the kiss of death.
As I
wrote five days ago, the notion that the majority of members of the party’s
Central Committee “care one iota what the Three Amigos and their consultants
think is laughable.”
Indeed,
the establishment leaders who maintain the only thing that counts is getting people
elected couldn’t even get their guy elected party chair. Now how embarrassing is that?
Indeed,
Sandoval, Roberson, Hickey, Slanker and Ernaut – all the kings horses, and all
the kings men – who had everything going for them – money, power, influence –
couldn’t win the chairmanship race for an extremely talented and experienced
candidate for a volunteer position that doesn’t even pay anything.
And
do you want to know why?
Because
for the past three years these establishment Republicans have flipped the party’s
foot soldiers the finger and have no relationship with them whatsoever. Sandoval didn’t even bother showing up for
the party’s bi-annual convention last year and rarely, if ever, shows up for a
Central Committee meeting.
Including
yesterday’s.
The
Three Amigos and their two handlers believe in winning at all costs, even if it
means sacrificing core party principles.
Central
Committee members, on the other hand, believe that if you win an election but
lose your philosophical soul, you really haven’t won anything. Democrat-lite is still Democrat, not
Republican.
Indeed,
why is it better for Sandoval to increase government spending than for Rory Reid to increase government
spending? Why is it better for Roberson to try to screw our mining industry
by jacking up its taxes than it is for Sheila
Leslie to do it? Why is it better
for Hickey to vote to extend the “temporary” tax hikes than Skip Daly?
Answer:
It’s not.
And
while a number of Central Committee members may have suspected that Uithoven, a
solid conservative, wouldn’t support the Gumby Republicanism of Sandoval, Roberson
and Hickey if he’d been elected…they just weren’t willing to take the chance.
Uithoven
didn’t lose. The Three Amigos and their
handlers lost. Conservative, principled
GOP activists won. The tea party
won. The liberty movement won. Onward…
THE BIGGEST LOSER
Sure,
the GOP establishment lost yesterday, but do you know who The Biggest Loser was?
Nevada’s
#2 liberal blogger, Jon Ralston.
All
last week Ralston was carrying the GOP establishment’s water; constantly taking
shots at McDonald and ridiculing the conservative members of the Central Committee,
referring to them as “loons” among other things.
Here’s
how badly in the tank Ralston was for the GOP establishment…
On
Thursday, he obtained a draft
document that had been proposed to McDonald to send to the entire Central
Committee; a document that was pretty harsh on his opponent. To which Ralston tweeted…
“I wonder who would have penned that nasty missive for the GOP chair. Maybe @citizenoutreach knows?”
Note
that Ralston used the Citizen Outreach twitter handle instead of using my
personal one, which was nothing short of a naked, ham-handed attempt to
insinuate that my non-profit organization, Citizen Outreach, was involved in
partisan politics.
I
responded…
“No idea. It wasn't anyone from Citizen Outreach.”
Now bear
in mind the document in question was never approved by McDonald and it never
went out…a fact Ralston never even bothered to try verifying with McDonald
before publishing it.
Shortly
thereafter, McDonald issued a statement saying just that; that the document was
never approved and never went out. That
statement was sent to me and I posted it on my Muth’s
Truths blog. I then tweeted the
following and linked to McDonald’s statement…
“GOP chair sez @RalstonReports didn't check facts (shocker!) b4 posting missive written by ‘overzealous supporter.’”
To
which Ralston responded…
“@citizenoutreach denies involvement in missive, but defends GOP chair on silly alibi.”
To
which I replied…
“I didn't defend McDonald; just published his statement pointing out that you're a sloppy ‘journalist.’ #stopbeingadick”
And
that really got under the thin-skinned bloggers skin! Ralston then huffily tweeted…
“Never a bad day when you're publicly attacked by a party chairman and his Internet thug, who uses classy phrases like ‘dick.’"
Um, "dick" is a word, not a phrase...but why quibble, right?
Nevertheless, I
swear this guy is truly the Hypocrite King.
Apparently
it’s OK for him to use “classy phrases” such as “loonville” and “thug” when
referring to conservative activists - but he got his widdle feelwings hurt at
being told to stop acting like a “dick.”
In other
words, Ralston can dish it out…but he can’t take it.
And
let’s face it…if you walk like a dick, talk like a dick, blog like a dick and
tweet like a dick…well, you’re a dick.
But,
hey folks…Jon doesn’t like being told not to be a dick even though he’s being a
dick.
So whatever you do, please don’t email him at ralstonreports@gmail.com and tell
him to stop being a dick even if he is being a dick. Because if you ask Ralston to stop being a
dick when he’s being a dick, he’s really going to get mad at your for telling
him to stop being a dick.
Also,
please don’t go on Twitter and tweet any messages to @RalstonReports telling
him to stop being a dick when he’s being a dick. Again, if you tweet @RalstonReports and tell
him to stop being a dick when he’s being a dick, you gonna get him all upset
and he might call you a “loon” or a “thug” or something even worse!
So
even when Jon’s being a dick, PLEASE don’t email or tweet him urging him
to stop being a dick because if you do, he’ll just act and write and blog and
tweet like an even bigger dick.
He
can’t help himself.
It’s
his nature.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Ralston
is now even more of a d..k.” – Nevada GOP Central Committee member Diane O’Connor
tweeting about Jon Ralston’s “irresponsible reporting” of a non-existent ballot
count discrepancy during the chairman’s election on Saturday
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