Enough With The Nasty Attacks on Republicans
Time for cooler heads and a bit more faith in our fellow Republicans rather than the siren song of consultants and their narrow 11th hour tricks.
Short version? Republicans have already settled the method of nomination to be a convention and several announced campaigns are already committed to this process. Efforts by consultants to rig the process towards a primary aren’t doing it for principle; they’re doing it for a paycheck — and they are more than happy to wreck reputations for a few hundred bucks.
By clicking here you will read an article slandering a good man.
Of course, it’s not up anymore.
Because it was wrong.
Let me get the scolding out of the way first.
This article should never have been written. Articles such as these are open pay-to-play hit pieces attacking fellow Republicans with no supporting facts, and they deserve to be taken down as quickly as it was posted. Bearing Drift’s editors and writers are naturally horrified. I would be as well.
I am not going to name names.
I am not going to encourage further Republican tit-for-tat nonsense.
Democrats are destroying Virginia.
The guns should be pointed out.
There are six rumored or announced candidates for governor. Most of them are good people who want to see Republican values succeed in the public square.
ENOUGH.
Just today, Governor Ralph Northam was celebrating the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. From a man who openly describe live and on-air the process of actual infanticide in a post-birth abortion? 61 million lives later… do we get it yet?
Does anyone reading this think McAuliffe is any better?
In the meantime, while Democrats are celebrating abortions, Republicans are still bickering over a nomination method we settled way back in December.
Let me end with this.
Since the man was openly slandered? Pete Snyder has done more to build and unite this Republican Party in Virginia than most. I know because I watched him do it over the better part of a decade — not because he had to but because he believed in the cause.
Not just that, but while Terry McAuliffe has been out there raising millions for his own campaign, Snyder has been front and center raising $35 million for over 2,500 Virginia small businesses during a pandemic — businesses looking to stay alive and meet payroll. That shouldn’t be cast aside because one underpaid consultant is looking for one paycheck.
Cooler heads within the Republican Party should see this with clear eyes.
The vote on nominations has been settled. Slandering fellow Republicans isn’t just unhelpful, but it is uncalled for and should be punished directly — but discreetly. Precisely how many times will State Central Committee be asked to flip-flop in the future? A fourth time? A fifth?
Meanwhile, former Speaker Kirk Cox — the only announced Republican candidate for the Republican nomination — is still licking his chops to get at the presumptive Democratic nominee. Several other announced Republican candidates for statewide office — Jason Miyares, Tim Hugo, Chuck Smith, and Winsome Sears — have all been preparing for a convention. Time, money, and resources all hard fought and hard spent.
Cheating them for the sake of one candidate demanding a third vote on an already settled method seems rather short-sighted. Reversing course now would only put the reputation of an already tottering state party at further risk. Just a little resolve and a bit of faith in one another might be warranted.
Did I mention that RPV makes money in a convention that the grassroots would otherwise not get in a primary?
One hopes that State Central Committee can see past the 11th hour play.
Shaun Kenney is the editor of The Republican Standard, former chairman of the Board of Supervisors for Fluvanna County, and a former executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia.