Thoughts on RWAAC-Gate
There was a story in the Capital yesterday about pressure on RWAAC President Joyce Thomann to resign in light of her comments. I don’t think Joyce Thomann should resign. Resignation is the honorable way out, and there was absolutely nothing honorable about what she said. The RWAAC Board should refuse her resignation and remove her by their Constitutionally mandated methods.
There has been a lot of harrumphing about Republicans who have failed to defend Joyce’s comments. Mike Netherland has been characteristically off the reservation with some of his learned thoughts on the matter:
If no other good can come from the Thomann affair let it be that it has opened the eyes of conservatives in and around Annapolis as to who in the Republican Party are most likely to throw you overboard when the going gets a little rough.
Somehow, Mike has determined that the entire Republican Party does not consist of “conservatives” but of merely “registered Republicans”, and that RWAAC’s disapproval of Thomann’s statement will “forever be an ugly stain and its only lasting legacy.” (Coincidentally, Mike considers himself a true Republican conservative. Go figure).
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You know it’s one thing to defend a Republican when what they do actually merits a defense. Attacking Democrats on an issue, standing up for principle on policy, and those kinds of things are worthy of my defense. Idiotic comparisons that basically wrap the Republican elephant in a box of hand grenades with their pins removed deserve no sort of defense. Joyce in her position as President of a Republican Club should be focused on doing her part to elect Republicans and get the Republican message out to the people. And as anybody who has ever heard of Godwin’s Law can tell you, if you have to invoke Hitler in your argument you’ve already lost. These comments did one hell of a lot of damage to the cause of conservatism and the cause of the Republican Party.
Conservatism is in a tenuous moment here on our country. We do have a situation where we have a number of Republicans trying to masquerade as conservatives in order to obtain and maintain elected office. Of course, that point has nothing to do with comparing Obama to Hitler. This is the time we need to be attacking the policies of this President (which are, in fact, dangerous to our country). This is the time we need to be focused on defending conservatism and the conservatism message. Taking even one minute of time to defend ridiculous outbursts like this takes valuable time away from defending conservative principles and electing conservative candidates.
So no, I cannot be bothered to defend what does not deserve to be defended. And I don’t give a damn who questions my conservative bona fides for it.
