Dawson = Not Winning

Despite spending hundreds of thousands of SCGOP dollars in a not-so-thinly-veiled effort to buy votes for his candidacy, SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson is trailing the majority of the field in his bid to lead the Republican National Committee.

Political blogger extraordinaire Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post has just published his updated analysis of the race, which we’re guessing you won’t be reading about over on “Dawson’s Infomercial.”

Out of the six candidates for the job, Dawson is currently ranked fifth, according to Cillizza.

From Cillizza’s “Fix” blog:

Dawson, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, got into the race believing that he could be the candidate to unify the southern bloc and, in doing so, claim the chairmanship. It was sound logic at the time but there now that there are several southerners (Duncan, Saltsman) in the field and there seems to be reluctance to choose a southerner as the face of the party, Dawson’s logic makes less sense.

Wait … reluctance? Why would there be reluctance? Oh yeah … nevermind.

Now comes the question of whether or not Dawson’s “logic” of spending all that SCGOP money in other states to pad his vote count will “make sense” with South Carolina Republicans … particularly if he doesn’t win.

Based on what we’re hearing, it’s already going over like mid-worship flatulence.

In related news, we hear Dawson is going absolutely nuts and blaming everybody under the sun for our recent reporting about his financial irresponsibility as state chairman.

Seriously … even after we took a pass on the Black Suburban story.

Amazingly, as it turns out we were motivated once again by that peskiest of all influences, a.k.a. our fiscal responsibility complex.

We know, we know … it’s out of control, people. We’ll try to get it under wraps one of these days …

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