The Dawson Question

We haven’t taken a position on the RNC committee chairman’s race because let’s face it, “Republicanism” is deader than a proverbial doornail at the moment, and none of the glad-handing buffoons tripping over each other to lead America’s most hypocritical party particularly appeals to us.

To a man, these party hacks represent an excuse for Republican activists to get excited over an election they can control for a change – nothing more, nothing less.

Bandying about ridiculous “blueprints” and “battle plans” that are long on rhetoric and short on reality, none of these Gomers is intelligent or intellectually honest enough to actually do what Republicans must do in order to regain relevancy – purge their party of RINO’s and rabid right wing evangelicals while returning to the fiscally conservative roots of Ronald Reagan.

Which leads us to SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson – who is easily among the most nakedly ambitious politicians e’re to bestride the national stage.

While several Palmetto political websites are gushing over Dawson’s every move – ooh-ing and ahh-ing over his candidacy like it was their job (which it probably is), we’ve taken a wait-and-see approach.

Sure, we were counseled to endorse his candidacy early on by numerous South Carolina Republicans, but the fact is there are legitimate questions being raised concerning Dawson’s character and his financial management of the SCGOP, to say nothing of his stewardship of the Republican brand in South Carolina.

Specifically, what is Dawson’s real record?

Obviously, he likes to boast of holding the GOP line at a time when the national party is going under, but has he actually done that? And if so, what did he sacrifice in order to keep the SCGOP’s head above water?

Has Dawson succeeded in maintaining the “House That Campbell Built?” Or has he allowed it to be torn asunder by party-switchers and RINOs?

Is South Carolina really the “reddest state in the nation?” Or has the infusion of Democratic and fiscally-liberal blood contaminated the GOP’s heart and soul here?

Oh, and why are two of South Carolina’s most influential Republicans – Gov. Mark Sanford and U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint – declining to endorse Dawson in the Chairman’s race?

Answers to these and other questions could be found within the pages of a document provided exclusively to FITS that details several of Dawson’s financial (mis)dealings as well as other items of concern.

We’re still in the process of verifying some of the document’s more sinister claims, but thusfar everything it alleges regarding the SCGOP’s finances is checking out …

Stay tuned …

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