And They’re Off …

One hundred and sixty-eight Republican Party committee members will vote this morning to determine their next national party chairman, a multi-candidate, potential multiple-ballot affair that interests us about as much as figuring out which raindrop makes it to the bottom of the window first.

Seriously, even the MSM has been lampooning this joke of a race, as Washington Post blogger extraordinaire Chris Cillizza said yeterday that the contest “has looked more like a race for high school student council than for the chairmanship of a political party.”

True that.

“The entire process — dominated as it has been by anonymous nasty-grams sent via email — has left many neutral Republican strategists shaking their heads at the pettiness of the contest,” Cillizza said.

Whatever the lessons of the 2006 and 2008 debacles (hint: look at the picture for this post) may be, it’s obvious that Republicans haven’t learned them.

And with “Flipper” Mitt Romney, “(Bible) Thumper” Mike Huckabee and “Drama Queen” Sarah Palin currently leading the Republican presidential pack for 2012, it doesn’t appear that the GOP is going to get its mojo back anytime soon.

Things haven’t been the same for Republicans since 1994, when they were sent to Congress in record numbers only to immediately betray the fiscal conservative principles that voters elected them on (thanks a lot, Newt Gingrich).

But don’t take our word on that, read U.S. Senator Tom Coburn’s book Breach of Trust.

Anyway, it only got worse from there.

After spending the next mid-term election consumed with a presidential blow-job, the restoration of “honor and dignity” to the White House was sadly not accompanied by a restoration of responsible government.

In fact, President George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans promptly went on a spending binge that added $3 trillion to the national debt, leading directly to their dramatic 2006 defeats.

And then, of course, came Bush’s big government swan song, which ballooned into $10 trillion worth of ineffective government interventionism prior to President Barack Obama coming to town.

Oh yeah, let’s not forget Obama … who won on a campaign promise of middle class tax cuts taken straight out of the centrist Clinton playbook.

So … who’s going to bribe, connive and cajole a majority of votes from168 out-of-touch insiders for the privilege of leading this party?

Who knows … and frankly, who cares.

It’s time to start a new party, people …

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