Sidney Blumenthal is leaving his perch at Salon.com, where he writes weekly about American politics and the neoconservative menace with all the subtlety of Buddy Hackett and all the delicacy of Sophie Tucker, to become a senior adviser to…the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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11.15.2007 - 8:22 AM
11.15.2007 - 8:22 AM
If Katon Dawson wins the RNC chair, I might have to officially resign my Republican registration. I won’t be a party that is so politically incompentent that it elects someone who didn’t realize he was a member of a whites-only country club.
With all due respect to Jack Kelly, if there is a successful terrorist attack on the US during Obama’s watch, it won’t matter who the DCI is with regard to dooming Obama’s prsidency. Some other–presumably experienced–hand at the helm of CIA won’t change the fallout.
Oh, good. Yeah, let’s make this RNC leadership selection about the archaic deed restriction on the property of one candidate’s country club — a club with no by-laws restricting membership by race, and no history that the press could find of rejecting a black candidate for membership.
Let us, above all, be sure to do the MSM’s job for them, and report this as Katon Dawson having membership for 12 years in a “whites-only country club,” with the implication that he joined it and stayed in it on that understanding.
The alternative of Saul Anuzis is so much better, from a substantive standpoint. Aside from having a less successful record in state electoral leadership than Dawson, the main thrust of Anuzis’ posture is that the party needs to attract the youth vote through wielding lots of “tech,” and being the “party of ideas,” as though if we just had some damn IDEAS, the voters would be flocking to the GOP. And especially if we communicated via text message , and maybe had a line of GOP entertainment products for Wii.
I can just smell the power-building GOP realignment from here. It’s gonna be awesome, folks. I can’t wait to see who gets picked. Meanwhile, memo to those aspiring to GOP leadership positions: Just say NO to the country club memberships. Bad idea. Don’t do it.