The Ca-ca caucus

The GOP ain't so grand, but it sure is old. And no, I don't mean "old" as in it's been around for awhile. I mean old, as in...full of gray-haired retirees and middle-aged fuddy duddies.

Not that there's anything wrong with either of those, if you still have an open mind and some common sense.

I went to the Christian County Republican Party caucus yesterday. It was eye opening to say the least. And I was very disappointed in the actions of some members of the Central Committee. I thought it was very disingenuous of the county chair to put up a slate with the name "Christian County Republican Central Committee" when not even half the proposed delegates were committeemen and women. Now considering the fact that the central committee has 52 positions (one man and one woman from each of 26 townships) and that not quite half of those seats are vacant, it is understandable that some of the delegates would not be committeemen and women if a full slate of 37 delegates was proposed.

But several committeemen and women, active people who are at nearly every meeting, were left off the slate. There were also active Republicans, who are not committeemen and women, who attend nearly every meeting and even volunteered on subcommittees to help with events such as the chili supper fundraiser, the caucus and the upcoming Lincoln Days, who were left off the slate. Why?

I'm guessing it's because they aren't for the "right" candidate. A candidate that is so far to the right that he's wrong. A candidate, who, quite frankly, scares the bejeezus out of me. But his stances on limiting freedoms of Americans are popular with the Bible-thumping social conservatives who have taken over the GOP, not only in Christian County, but in Missouri and much of the United States. He wants to limit the freedoms most Christians find distasteful.

What these ill-informed Christians don't realize is that when you start limiting freedoms you don't like, just give it time, they will eventually get around to limiting those you do like.

The slate really should have been called "Christian County Republicans for Rick Santorum." Or perhaps, "Christian County Republicans handpicked by the Central Committee Chair and co-chair and their spouses and the Rick Santorum county coordinator and all the other old cronies who are scared to death of those awful Ron Paul people."

Truth in advertising, people.