When I sit back and think about the current mess that is the Michigan GOP, I sympathize with those who don't necessarily want to jump into the muck.
I really do.
As readers of RedState know, I have written about this so many times here I might have lost count. I asked former President Donald Trump to offer his opinion on this just a couple of days ago.
This came after I wrote about a meeting that allegedly removed Kristian Karamo from her post as chair.
Showdown: Michigan Republican Committee Votes to Remove Party Chair Karamo—She Vows Not to Leave
Kristina Karamo after vote to remove her as Michigan GOP Chair: "It was not a State Party meeting. It was an illegitimate meeting, their performance has no legal standing, I am still chair of the Michigan Republican Party."
Oddly enough, she had the same reaction after she lost by 13 or 14 points--in her Secretary of State race in 2022--to the current holder of that office, Jocelyn Benson. Also in that election, Karamo claimed there was fraud but she could never offer one piece of evidence to back it up in that regard.
This is kind of how she operates.
Now, unlike some of the current GOP insiders--one who's a blowhard who did a 30-tweet regurgitation to try to sound smart on this--I'm going to cut all through the BS to tell you exactly where this is going.
Ready?
This is going to court
The reasons are super-simple to understand, without layering word salad upon word salad (Kamala Harris-style) and trying to confuse people.
Karamo was dutifully elected in February of 2023 at the Michigan Republican Party state convention, which is held every two years to select a new chairperson and other officers. The next meeting to hold an election for those officers is, I believe, scheduled for February of 2025. However, on the current trajectory that Kristina and the rest of her merry band of Democrat-light sycophants have the party on, there won't be a party to hold a convention in February of that year.
Karamo was elected back in February 2023 after four ballots against the runner-up, Matt DePerno. Donald Trump had endorsed DePerno as his choice to lead the Michigan Republican Party but Karamo surprised everybody by convincing the majority of the delegates to go with her and against Trump's pick.
Her only experience in politics was her Secretary of State Run in 2022, where she was defeated by the incumbent Democrat by 14 points and afterward, refused to concede and said she lost due to fraud yet never produced any evidence.
After reading a story right here earlier today about Bree Moeggenberg, who was one of the people involved in the Saturday, Jan 6th meeting that removed Karamo, I sent it out to some people I know who know things.
In the months since February, when the state Republican party chose the election-denying, QAnon conspiracy theorist to chair the party, Moeggenberg has changed her mind.
A mid-Michigan resident who was one of the driving forces behind a meeting in Oakland County Saturday in which nearly 89 percent of the party’s delegates voted to oust Karamo, Moeggenberg tried repeatedly to meet with her to discuss issues that she thought were important to bring the party together.
After those efforts failed, Moeggenberg and others dissatisfied with the Karamo’s leadership organized the meeting to remove her and begin the task of rebuilding what they said is a debt-ridden party with no plans to raise money for candidates.
Since the meeting Saturday, Moeggenberg has received many messages from people heckling her and making inappropriate comments but said she isn’t backing down.
Moeggenberg, of Mt. Pleasant, wants to see a united party that will do the work necessary to get Republicans elected following a disastrous 2022 midterm election that saw Gov. Gretchen Whitmer get a second term and Democrats gaining control of the legislature.
My question in a roundabout was this.
Now that we are just a bit over 10 months away from one of the biggest national elections in this nation's history, does it not concern anyone that the Michigan GOP just neutered itself?
I was told that if nothing happened or a statement was released from GOP on the national level, they would probably stay out of it and see what happens at the Saturday meeting.
That of course is the safest route of all.
National doesn't want to get too deeply involved in state issues, and generally, states don't want to get involved with counties. However in Michigan the past couple of years there have been instances of the state party interfering in Macomb County and Hillsdale County.
Yet I was hoping that there would be some direction from the national party because the current chairperson is Ronna McDaniel and she of course was the head of the Michigan GOP When Donald Trump won the state in 2016 by 11,000 votes. My thinking is that she might still have some pull with folks here to try and get this cleaned up as soon as possible.
On a Sunday Videocast by Rescue Michigan, I watched several party activists including Bree Moeggenberg, who was in the story above, and I asked a question about the actions of the Saturday, January 6th meeting and the canceling of the Karamo scheduled January 13th meeting. All the panelists agreed that in their opinion the meeting on the 13th was canceled.
Unless something changes, it seems the national GOP is willing to let this play itself out and the meeting on Saturday will be a Hootenanny from political hell.
The only winners in this are the Michigan Democrats, who must be laughing their donkey-loving rear ends off, and the others are the citizens of the state of Michigan.
If the Democrat trojan horse that is Kristina Karamo actually cared about getting Republicans elected, she would have reached out to more experienced people months ago, but she didn't. She has let the party run out of money and abandoned the Michigan GOP headquarters over claims of fiscal responsibility but she has done nothing but show irresponsibility on every level.
Now we are way past time that people who claim to want virtuous actions instead of flowery words from those in politics realize that Karamo has failed on almost every measurable gauge and it is time for her to go.
Otherwise, you are the problem you are claiming to fight.
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