I’ve been waiting for someone to write a GOP convention preview and not seeing any on the horizon I have decided that this comment from Tyler Nixon over at FSP comes pretty close.
GOP leadership should not be promoting or demoting any state or local GOP candidates over other GOP candidates. This has produced division and defeat that are as contrived as their purported neutrality in the role of fiduciaries of the process.
If you serve all Republicans in an office of trust you can’t serve one candidate over others, in any manner whatsoever. Anyone with a GOP party office has the obligation to step aside from their personal choices and shepherd the process of selection, not manipulate or meddle with it.
This convention is already shaping up to be another insider-steamroller-fest. Tyler runs down the numbers on why this is a bad way to pick a candidate.
…the convention process is flawed, failed, and broken. Of Delaware’s 31.7% Republican voters (down from 34% in 2000) the entire GOP convention represents .002%. This amounts to .0006% of the total electorate, even if the convention is unanimous.
This tiny controlling minority’s controlling an increasingly smaller minority party will never produce a governing majority coalition of voters. This tiny controlling minority has changed little in its complexion in the last decade over which it has produced candidates who simply could not win in Delaware’s political landscape. I believe the way they conducted the process damaged these candidates more than anything else.
Pretty good summary of the current state of the party.
BTW – Nixon lets Burris off the hook at the end of the comment saying that Dave keeps his SC GOP chair hat in a different room than he keeps his FSP blogger hat. I think that is being generous – and I say that out of love for my brother from another mother.