The fact that Stephen Stepanek’s job is open has made me wonder what the state and local R leadership positions are all about. I plead ignorance. I always assumed the GOP has a function but have never given it any thought.
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During my thirty years in Australia (1980-2017), I was always annoyed that my Party had monthly meetings at which the MP came to talk to us. It was never supposed to be for us to talk to him! He and his colleagues were called “the parliamentary wing” of the Party. A real disgrace, if you ask me. But now I am wondering what the RNC is a wing of.
It is well established that Republicans (including me) believe: 1. that the 2020 election was stolen, and 2. that the Jan 6 invasion was arranged by Pelosi et al.
So let me ask this: What did the RNC or GOP do about this? Why did Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell have to take the bull by the horns? Did the RNC even sponsor or publicize Dinesh D’Souza’a Twenty Million Mules?
Did Stephen Stepanek make a stink about the wrongful impeachments of Trump? Maybe he did; I don’t read all the pertinent papers, but I never saw a word from him at GraniteGrok, for example. Did he file any lawsuits against Twitter?
And at the state level, is the Party Person supposed to inspire others to work at, say, getting rid of unconstitutional state legislation? Is there someone who could now fill that job or acknowledge that responsibility?
I hear you saying, “Mary, don’t be daft. It is for the legislators to do that” (i.e., the parliamentary wing of the R party). OK, I do realize it is their job, and it’s our job as journalists, and it’s the job of everyday members of the Party, dues-paying or not. But should the paid leader of the R’s steer clear of all issues? Does it suffice for him to recite a few pieties such as “I hate Democrats; I oppose abortion; I believe in a balanced budget”?
And what is the salary? And how much obedience does he/she have to show to the Men at the Top Table? What do the everyday members, even just the dues-paying ones, want him or her to do?
Have the applicants for the job now held by Stepanek announced their position on vaccines? On censorship? On the coming food shortage? On our payments to Ukraine?
What do you want him or her to say? And did I hear that “Water St” supported the Sun King during the primary? Was any other candidate, such as Karen Testerman, entitled to any support? I suppose I am making a fool of myself, admitting how little I know.
Did you attend the Victory Breakfast at the Grappone Center on September 15, 2022? I recognized only a handful of the 400 suit-and-tie wearers. Whom would they pick for Water St? Are they entitled to more consideration than the plaid-flannel shirt types?
For the record: December 23, 1776:
Thomas Paine:
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”
