Today I received a fundraising letter in the mail from United States Senator Elizabeth Dole, on behalf of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, of which she is Chairman.  It took me about a minute to open the letter, take out the pre-postage-paid return envelope, and put the reply card in it, clearly labeled:  REMOVE FROM LIST.  Then I threw in an additional note that said:

Somehow I don’t think I will hear back.  And you know what?  I bet they keep me on their fundraising list, too.  Ever try to get off of one of those things?

Anyways the point is this — at some point, there needs to be an assessment taken by the Republican Party Chiefs nationally, about the disconnect between what we, as a party, promise to achieve with a majority, and when we actually get done.  In many cases (especially on the very significant issue of federal spending), we are actually treading backwards.  We need to understand that electing a majority of registered Republicans in Congress is not the end-game for the party — it is a means to an end — which is enacting the Republican vision for America. 

If Liddy Dole understood that, she would have let Linc Chafee die on the vine.  We may or may not have saved the Rhode Island seat in the GOP column (it isn’t really in our column now!) — but the impact that Chafee’s primary loss would have had on the behavior of the other handful of Senate RINO’s (Republicans in Name Only) would have allowed us to deliver on things like making the President’s tax cuts permanent, and a whole host of other mainstream GOP issues that are languishing in the Upper Chamber.  Instead, Chafee is now a posterchild for the spoiled brat who instead of getting a spanking, gets candy.  The probem will only get worse going forward.

P.S.  Here’s what Human Events’ Online Editor Rob Bluey had to say on this.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.