Indiana

Talk is Cheap and Political Talk is Worthless

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

When I twittered Friday night that two GOP Ward Chairman had been fired as Ward chairman (Liz Karlson and Chris Smith) I figured it would cause a tempest in a teacup type stir in the blogosphere even though most people in real life would care less because of the total inside baseball nature of the event.

Despite that the entire matter is still worth commenting on.  Now I know what I expect from some of my critics  “Abdul is in the pocket of Tom John and his Masters at Ice Miller so we shouldn’t listen to anything he says even though we read his blog several times a day and follow his Twitter feeds.”  So now that I’ve said it for you, you don’t have waste their breath.

Should Liz Karlson (full disclosure is also a friend) and Chris Smith been fired as Ward Chairmen?  To be honest, I don’t know.  What I do know is political parties Republican, Democrat and Libertarian are all entitled to run their organizations as they see fit and have to live with the consequences of their actions.

Democrats have to deal with the fact that their County Chairman is always at odd with the State party and that may have cost Linda Pence a U.S. Attorney nominee.  Libertarians had a Holocaust denier working for them and recently let them go.

Now if you’re one of the people who think the Marion County GOP is going down the wrong road, then might I suggest you stop whining and crying on blogs and go do something about it.   I find it ironic that blogger Gary Welsh goes on ad nauseum about Tom John (another unhealthy fatuation) in, but when it came down to the Chairman vote this past March, Welsh stood there in the room and voted for John just like everyone else did not stand up to offer any dissent.  I guess it’s easier to take pot shots from your computer rather than grow a vertebrae and be a real leader in your party.

But I digress.

If you don’t like the way your political party is run.  Take it back or go start your own.

Just remember, consequences have actions and that works both ways.  There will always be struggles inside political parties for power, some just occur more publicly and each side takes its victories and its lumps.   Third, inside baseball political fights are like snow blowing across the Interstate, unless it’s a blizzard, for most people it’s insignificant and they could care less.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).