| While I've defended West Virginia Republican Party's executive director Gary Abernathy recently against personal smears and back stabbing from people on his own side, that doesn't mean I don't have my differences with him.
In today's Republican Gazette post, Abernathy criticizes our former front pager PDAWV who now works as the elections division manager. Apparently in Abernathy's world, people who care about politics should never speak about politics or else they're ineligible for holding a political post.
Abernathy implies because PDAWV wrote on West Virginia Blue and was state coordinator of the Progressive Democrats of West Virginia, he is too highly partisan to hold a job in an office that is run by partisan politicians.
What Abernathy apparently doesn't know is the person directly under Dave Nichols, who like the vast majority of Americans did not like John McCain, is also a partisan political supporter. I'm sure if Abernathy had known that, he would have highlighted how it's additional proof that the Secretary of State's office is too partisan under Natalie Tennant. Because the person directly under Nichols was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2008...wait a minute? That man's a highly partisan Republican.
Reality once again undermines a Republican's argument. Even Abernathy is going to have a hard time claiming Tennant is running a highly partisan office when it includes Democrats and Republicans in key positions.
But Abernathy's real target is not Dave Nichols. It's Secretary of State Natalie Tennant and Abernathy's trying to play his "guilt-by-association" card even though Dave Nichols is guilty of no wrong doing except not liking John McCain for president, a view held by the vast majority of Americans. (Although I'm sure Abernathy would love to outlaw any desire for more progressive politicians in West Virginia).
It helps to understand the context of Abernathy's latest spiel to know he's a supporter of Betty Ireland (also much of the context of the Republicans stabbing Abernathy in the back who are Shelley Moore Capito's people) and as I highlighted earlier Tennant has a good size lead on Ireland already in a potentional gubernatorial matchup in 2012.
Abernathy takes issue with Tennant appearing as a speaker at the Progressive Democrats of West Virginia. I'm sure he'll be just as outraged when he reports on the next group Tennant is scheduled to speak before: the Republican Federation of Women.
If that's not a clear sign of how Tennant is willing to meet with anyone and everyone I don't know what is. Unless, you want to apply Abernathy's "reasoning" and say she should be judged harshly as a partisan Republican since she's meeting with a Republican group.
Still, it's amusing to see Abernathy accusing Tennant of running a highly partisan office when she has Democrats and Republicans serving in it and is meeting with Democratic and Republican groups.
Once again a Republican is left having to curse reality for having such a liberal bias. |
