I’d like to congratulate RNC Chairman Rance Priebus for actually locating his spine. It’s been missing for so long I had begun to wonder if he’d actually had one at some point in his life.
Pulling the plug on NBC [1] after the performance of their supposed news people was precisely the correct thing to do. It has the added benefit of sending a message to the remainder of the leftist press as well.
However, consider this;
Would Priebus have found that level of courage, much less that level of support in the upper levels of the RNC for that bold and correct action, absent the leadership integrity and sheer guts of Ted Cruz, and the massively loud and supportive rank-and-file reaction to it?
I don’t think so.
So, one lesson to draw here is that what I have been saying in these spaces about the vast majority of Americans being to the right of anything either party has coughed up since Reagan, was precisely correct. My saying the rank and file was sick to death of the go along to get along nonsense that we’ve been dealing with for the last two decades, was equally correct.
But more than that, and far more important is the idea that courage and leadership begets courage and leadership. What we have seen in this instance is both very good and very instructive.
The reaction makes me hope that the leadership of the RNC is finally getting the message from the rank and file. It’ll take a bit more convincing for my part, but this move does look promising.
And the value of having someone the caliber of Ted Cruz in the White House becomes far more apparent.