No wonder the last season of GoT was poor. I didn't realize it was a documentary. It all makes sense now.
You could break a weathervane trying to keep up with Lindsey's shifting "principles".
So, I ask any member of the floor or the executive committee to make two separate motions tonight.
The first: That the Charleston County Republican Party post condolences on its official page as follows:
“The Charleston County Republican Party expresses condolences to the family of officer Brian Sicknick who died January 6th in defense of the democratic institutions of this nation.”
We do not debase this motion by glorifying by inclusion the deaths of any insurrectionists. Their actions were illegal, his were not.
The second motion is to clarify for all potential voters in Charleston County whether Donald Trump Jr.’s proclamation that “This isn’t the Republican Party anymore, this is the party of Donald J Trump” actually speaks for us.
So I ask motions be made that the Charleston County Republican Party post on its official page the following:
“The Charleston County Republican Party states, without qualification, that it is not a political party of any individual; but a political party solely faithful to its Creed and party platform, as approved by its members.”
Our party is at a time of reckoning and approval of these motions will allow open discussion as we chart our path forward. We owe immediate clarity to the voters of Charleston County as to exactly who we are.
As Caitlin Byrd reported in Columbia’s State newspaper, it got ugly.
Some people in the room claimed the election had been “stolen” and a person who was actually in D.C. that day claimed the far-left-leaning group antifa was behind the violence, and there was nothing to it other than a few “allegedly” broken windows.
“We don’t owe an apology, because we didn’t do it.”
All FBI reports, eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence to the contrary.
Another person, watching the meeting via Zoom, had a novel (if recycled) idea for Savage: “Lock him up.”
Folks, this ain’t normal. Savage didn’t ask for anything radical, he just wanted some reassurance his party was the same one he’d joined years ago.
And it disturbed him that local Republicans hadn’t issued a statement to ease the tension.
“The silence is deafening and shocking to the voters of this county who we will need in the next election,” Savage told the group. “So I am here tonight asking that we get our own house in order, to take the splinter out of our own eye, look in the mirror and decide who we really are as Republicans.”
Basically, are Republicans united by ideas and beliefs or, as Savage asked, “have we in fact devolved into a cult of personality?”
Spoiler alert: He didn’t like the answer.