By most people's accounts, I'm a pretty libertarian minded Republican. Heck, I fly my State Fair balloon around without a permit and without notifying the FAA. I also own two rifles. Why? Well, it's not because I hunt or am worried about a home invasion. (You get my drift.) I say this because what I'm about to write is going to have the Daffy Duck fringe of the libertarian movement within the GOP raving mad. Then again... they're more like the Donald Duck fringe, because they're ALWAYS raving mad.
Well, what I'm about to suggest will at least have them declaring that I'm somehow a big-government socialist who wants to strip everyone of their civil liberties. Just ignore them - the Donald Ducks will just be having one of their "moments".
What I'm suggesting is that the Indiana Republican Party PURGE the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) and its members out of Republican Politics in our state. Here in Northwest Indiana, we saw first hand at last month's Porter County Republican Party meeting that the RLC (which sets the agenda of the NWI Patriots) is hellbent on discrediting and undermining the Republican Party and its candidates every step of the way. What's worse, the RLC is doing this while simultaneously teaming up with DEMOCRAT Bob Harper to achieve this goal.
The Indiana faction of the RLC isn't the only one to be causing problems. In fact, the same shenanigans were taking place in Florida over the past few months. How did the Florida Republican Party solve the problem? They banned RLC members from holding party positions and launched an active campaign to ensure they wouldn't become delegates at their Florida GOP Convention coming up.
Florida may not have the most open party system, but it's a strong party nevertheless and they weren't going to tolerate Donald Ducks from the RLC undermining the work the FLGOP is doing to elect Republicans to state offices in 2010. Perhaps its time that the Indiana Republican Party and the leadership therein begin taking a serious look at what these fringe idiots are up to.
Indiana, which is usually one of the first two states to be declared for the Republican Presidential Candidate every four years voted to give its electoral votes to the most liberal and progressive politicians we have ever seen. 2010 has GOT to be a rebuilding year for the Indiana Republican Party and the LAST thing that we need is for the RLC to be working with Democrats to discredit our leaders, bash our candidates, and try to spread mayhem by creating unnecessary divisions.
Are the Indiana Republican Party or our County Parties perfect? Of course not. But there are constructive ways to going about solving problems within the party and there are destructive ways. The RLC has chosen a unilaterally destructive course and should be kicked out of the process entirely for it.
On a side note, the NWI Patriots have proved me wrong about my last post, where I predicted their future events would all be pathetically small after abandoning the health care debate to focus on the RTA referendum. Seriously, did you see that their last event had an amazing turnout of 13?! Of course... it wasn't actually their event... and it wasn't actually their people... and it wasn't actually anywhere remotely near here.
I guess the Patriots have sort of died. Yet another example of the RLC's nature of destroying everything they can get their dirty little hands on.
