A few of you may know there happens to be another election on January 28th. In this case, this election is for the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Unfortunately, for the rank and file, we do not have a vote. The vote will be conducted by those members of the National Committee that were selected in each state. 

 In Nebraska, those delegates are De Carlson and Pete Ricketts. From my knowledge of both, which I admit is rather spotty, Pete is a younger conservative that is the target demographic for the Rebuild the Party initiative. De is not of the digital generation.

Where the controversy comes in is in the candidacy of the current chairman, Mike Duncan. Many advocating the Rebuild the Party initiative are of the mindset that Duncan has been part of the problem, and thus should not be selected to continue as party chairman. I admit I have a similar mindset. Unlike others, though, I have no pony in this horserace. If Duncan can prove he ‘gets it’, I would really not have a problem with him continuing.

 The problem comes in with a call by Michael P Leahy for Duncan to withdraw from the race. Leahy, who is the organizer of the Top Conservatives on Twitter list and TCOT Report website has a number of initiatives to try and draw on that grouping. I was part of the conference call where Leahy said he was going to make a post against Duncan, so I knew this was coming. Leahy, though, went the wrong direction in his call for Duncan to withdraw from the race. Leahy bases much of his argument in the fact many of the committee members are not tech savvy, and thus would vote for Duncan as the status quo. So, Duncan should back out.

This is the absolute wrong reason. What needs to happen is not for Duncan to back out of the race, which he has every right to join, but the committee members who are technically deficient need to be dragged into the 21st Century. If you are going to attack Duncan, attack him for his inaction, his invisible status on the Sunday morning talk shows, his wasted initiatives. Don’t call on him to resign because the voters may be stupid – we did not educate the voters and their stupidity got us Barack Obama. Educating the voters needs to be the emphasis. 

In calling for Duncan to back out, Leahy looks like the media pundits that kept calling for Clinton to back out of the primary against Obama. That is not the right way to do things.  I am not calling for another candidate, Katon Dawson, to withdraw because he has not endorsed Rebuild the Party, but I am posting every so often via Twitter for him to explain why he has not. That’s the approach to take, not burning the good credit you have built by setting up #TCOT with a poor argument for resignation of one of the candidates.

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