The wheels fly off the RPOF express
Having claimed their biggest scalp to date by Scozzafavaing Jim Greer, the forces of teabaggery are salivating at the prospect of putting a genuine Marco Rubiophile in place as the head of the Republican Party of Florida. The idea, of course, is to decapitate the pragmatist leadership of the Republican Party state by state, local party by local party, replacing them all with candidates who meet the new conservative purity test. In Fla, state Sen. John Thrasher seemed to be that somebody. Only somebody else didn’t get the memo:
(The News Herald’s Politically Korrect) John Salak, head of the Bay County Republican Executive Committee, said that he would not support a sitting senator (which Thrasher is) becoming party chair.
“We are in the 2010 election cycle, with change in the air,” he said. “To me, it will take someone who wont be conflicted by having to attend to legislative duties.”
Salak had no negative words for Thrasher, but said he simply did not want to see a sitting senator take over the chairmanship.
Well, I guess it’s RedState re-education camp for Salak. And yes, there will be waterboarding… so far, Salak is the only vocal apostate among the state’s GOPers. But you’ve got to figure pro-Crist people aren’t just going to take this coup d’party lying down. … will they???
Meanwhile, if the tea partiers are feeling great tonight, it’s mostly because they don’t understand, or don’t want to understand, how their coup is being viewed from outside the bubble. There, the Republican Party doesn’t look renewed and revived, it looks like it’s being ripped apart by wild animals. The DNC is passing around this round-up of local media coverage that shows they’re having way too much fun with this, but also that a narrative is setting in that can’t be good news for the GOP as a whole, however satisfying the Greer ouster is for the teabag part of the base:
I mean, when you’re making Jim Greer look like the reasonable one … you’re not in good shape.
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