Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Rumors of an RNC Coup d'etat

There are rumors that South Carolina Chairman Katon Dawson, who placed second in the race for RNC Chairman is organizing a Coup d'etat to overthrow Michael Steele, who started a mere five weeks ago, because of comments saying he wanted to put a "hip hop" spin on the GOP and his less than thoughful words about Rush Limbaugh on DL Hughley show and reaction to Hughley calling the GOP the "nazi party." Dawson denies this and says he has full faith in Michael Steele.

The conservative base's reaction to Michael Steele is going to be one of the very first things we talk about on the podcast that should be up sometime next week, but the very fact that people are already gunning for him to be thrown out after just five weeks without fundraising data, an election, or anything else to judge him on is ridiculous! And if this was indeed started by Dawson, it will be seen as a power grab by a man who was the only candidate running for RNC Chairman not to endorse Rebuild the Party, an organization that is going to be vital in reaching the YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter generation, and who sent a letter to a whites only country club he was apart of, urging the owners to change their policies only after he was interested in running for RNC Chairman.

While I haven't been able to confirm this, Dawson's wikipedia page seems to indicate that he got into politics because he was fiercly anti-desegregation. Again, this is a pretty big charge and I want to make clear that I haven't confirmed that yet and I'm still looking into it. (I think I'm small enough to mention this in my post)

If this is true, it would be a serious problem for the Republican Party to overthrow it's first black chairman in favor of this man. As much as we don't want to make things about race (and I want to make clear, I don't think there is any racial tinge behind what Dawson is doing at all) the media would have a field day with this story.

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