The RNC: WHAT it becomes is more important than WHO runs it
That’s the thesis being pushed by Raheem Kassam, former aide to
Breitbart’s (and WarRoom’s) Steve Bannon and to the UK’s Nigel Farage, in a pretty thoughtful, interesting essay:
[…] Anyway, we’re back now, and I wanted to answer some a question I’ve received a lot, recently: who should be the Republican National Committee chairman? Well, here’s why I couldn’t care less:
Consider the incumbent, Ronna Romney McDaniel – who continues to claim victories after every humiliating defeat – and who has been spending gargantuan sums of donor (your) money on hospitality, private flights, luxury hotels, flowers, and gifts for her friends. Not to mention what else. As if we needed further evidence that she was a useless, selfish, swamp creature (we didn’t).
That someone like McDaniel could have assumed this position and held it so long while behaving in such a manner is a stain on leading conservatives, political news reporters, and indeed the GOP base. Someone, somewhere, should have caught all this. I’m willing to point as many fingers at myself as I am at others, since you ask. But then, I haven’t been in the business of legitimizing her, either. Many have. Questions will be asked. One of those questions you may have is: “How does Ronna McDaniel have the audacity to even show her face anymore?” Simple. It’s a different face, every time. […]
Secondly, her main challenger, Harmeet Dhillon. I don’t believe I’ve ever met Harmeet in person, but for whatever reason, just like everyone else in the corporate political set, she seems to have a rather visceral disliking of me. I can’t say I blame these people for feeling this way, for the record. I know why it happens. Most people in politics, I mean almost down to the person, are bullshit artists. And I am a professional bullshit hunter. They hate that, and it usually manifests itself in one of two ways: they instantly block me (I must be one of the most blocked people on Twitter), or they attack me.[…]
Which brings me to Ms. Dhillon. My only experiences with her are curiously nasty. […]
A few years back some rotund neocon grifter going by the name “Jen Kerns” was trying to pass herself off as Rudy Giuliani’s spokesman. In attempting to do so, she tried to convince Rudy that Steve Bannon was bad mouthing him, and only hiring her could stop this spat. Needless to say, she failed, but not before Ms. Dhillon chirped up in my e-mails with legal finger-wagging for me demanding Ms. Kerns shut the fuck up. Kassam enthusiasts will note the frequency with which I urge people to take this very same advice.
Fast forward to post-2020, when I offered to connect anyone at the RNC with a network of lawyers who were willing to help with election law queries. I was simply passing a message on from a very well respected group, to an RNC that was clearly ill-equipped in the face of massive election irregularities. The word back from Ms. Dhillon – who was and continues to work for McDaniel: “Raheem is full of shit.”
What this connection had to do with me personally, I have no idea. But it spoke volumes about Ms. Dhillon’s attitude, and indeed may have harmed any realistic chances of challenging the 2020 results.
Lately, as I shared my thoughts on the fecklessness of the RNC’s legal fight pre-and-post mid terms, Dhillon’s partner Ron Coleman popped up in my replies claiming my opinions were borderline “defamatory”.
Remind me again who is full of shit?
And then there’s Mike Lindell. Sigh. It’s hard to write this about lovable old Mike, but my goodness do I wish he would focus on selling pillows and then donating to causes he cares about, with the money he makes from conservative buyers. In the world of slumber efficacy, he’s done very, very well. But his record in national politics is a little less convincing – to the point where some wonder if he is being egged on by bad actors around him. Remember the great “Cybersymposium”? It was a catastrophe. And every time people just asked to see his data: answer came there none. But as I say, this feels churlish, because I don’t believe that Mike is a bad person. And I don’t believe he is a swamp monster, either. I do, in fact, enjoy my MyPillow. But if Lindell assumes the role of RNC chairman, you can almost guarantee a level of amateurish silly buggers that would make Clark Griswold look like the consummate traveller. We all love Clark Griswold. But do you want him running the RNC? I suppose at best you could root for Mike as an agent of chaos. But right now, I feel like the RNC needs discipline, not anarchy.
So – what’s the answer?
Realistically, I don’t think it would make much of a difference what happens. They’ll all bring in their own consultants, make their own silly mistakes, and become as protective and cliquey as everyone before them. In an ideal world, Republicans should have to rely less on the central party to get anything done. Internal, democratic reform is critical to this. Instead of a small group of committeemen around the country, people should have a far greater membership vote in how their money is spent, and indeed what policies the party adopts. Britain’s Conservative Party used to have such internal party democracy – including a national, annual, voting conference. Until the will of the party members was eradicated by David Cameron. Now, Tory HQ is run like the RNC – for the donors, by the donors.
Failing this, it might be time to look away from the central party model, like the Democrats. The DNC is actually broadly irrelevant in Democratic politics nowadays, with funds being run through donor trusts, dark money groups, and of course, Sam Bankman Fried. These are the institutions and people who make the powerful decisions on their side of the political football. Because, frankly, while they’re just as corrupt as the politicians vying for control on Capitol Hill; they’re at least competent at it.
The irresponsible spending of the RNC in and of itself should lead to a demand for Ronna’s resignation. When she ran for this term, she told the 168 voting members it would be her last term, but now she wants to run again after another disastrous cycle. Just imagine if she had used the dry cleaning budget in AZ? PA? MI? NV? GA?
RNC Co-Chair Tommy Hicks (TX) is not running for re-election and neither is RNC Treasurer Ron Kaufman. It would be interesting to know why? Kaufman is supporting Ronna accounting to a December 12th interview.
The RNC was noticeably silent after the Dobson case. A time they should have been BOLD!
It is time for new leadership and to decentralize the RNC! Mike Lindell needs to step aside, as every vote he receives hurts Harmeet.
It does matter who runs the RNC! NC has 3 votes. Current NCGOP Chair Michael Whatley is running for RNC Co-Chair.
The vote will be in late January at the RNC Winter Meeting and I urge everyone to reach out to our RNC Committeman and Woman, as well as, Whatley to let them know how you would like them to vote.
Great idea, Michelle. However, the NCGOP website does not give their contact information. That used to be provided to party activists, but for some reason, it is not at present. Could you provide the contact info for the three RNC votes, so that readers of this site can make their feelings known for RNC chairman? We need to make our voices heard, and the our RNC members do not respond, then we need to look for challengers to them.
It is interesting that while Kyshia Brassington was spotted at the ExCom meeting, she failed to stand up and give her report, which would have opened the door to questions about where she stood on the RNC race. Her counterpart, Eddie Broyhill ducked the meeting entirely, as seems his usual practice with ExCom meetings.
Maybe Mike Lindell could switch to the vice dhairman race if their is not a conservative in it. I agree that Harmeet Dhillon is far and away the best choice for chairman.
It absolutely DOES matter who runs the RNC as you pointed out. Remember lying John Boehner? I don’t understand why you want Mike Lindell to drop out. Is there a problem with the person who gets the most votes wins? I vote for Mike.
Simple. There are two conservatives running and one moderate. Conservatives need to concentrate their votes and Dhillon is the stronger of the two conservatives. Lindell would make a great vice chairman and Dhillon and Lindell would make a great team.
I wish someone would post the contact info for the National Committeeman, National Committeewoman, and State Chairman. It is not on the NCGOP website. We need to email them to vote for the conservatives in the RNC races.
The hireharmeet.com website lists email addresses for each state. Here is what they have for NC.
Twitter:
Michael Whatley – State Chairman @WhatleyNCGOP
Kyshia Brassington – National Committeewoman NA
Ed Broyhill – National Committeeman @EBroyhill
Email:
ed@broyhill.net
kyshial@gmail.com
michael.whatley@ncgop.org
I like Mike Lindell as well for chair. He is a super smart businessman and can right the RNC ship; Dhillon could be the legal advice behind the chair perhaps. Although those that adhere to the BAR association mentality I find to have less of a moral fabric when it comes to righting that ship. If we don’t have any spiritual influence at the top, we will be lost in the abyss.
Me too!
A national poll of Republicans by the respected Trafalgar Group found that 75% of Republican voters think we need a new RNC chair, and only 5% think Ronna Romney McDaniel should be reelected.
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/01/04/poll-three-quarters-of-republicans-want-ronna-mcdaniel-gone-n683005
Are our National Committeeman and Nationalcommitteewoman and state chairman going to side with the vast majority of Republicans or with the DC swamp insiders?