A Confederacy of Dunces

Ever since Lew’s ideological purge of anyone who dared question his bloviating, the discussion group of Southwest Washington Opinions has turned into an echo chamber for the terminally clueless.  What was once a vibrant and rambunctious forum where views could be offered and discussed across a wide variety of viewpoints has been turned into a temple of navel-gazers who pass judgment on that of which they know little or nothing, and then congratulate one another on their perspicacity.

Recently Thomas Higdon posted some incoherent mumbling about “Libertarians” taking over control of the local GOP and having the audacity to recruit like-minded people for public office. This, of course, tickled Lew’s funny bone, because just like all Democrats see Republicans as Archie Bunker, Lew sees all libertarians as Ron Paul.  And Lew hates Ron Paul, to the point where he become hysterically inarticulate when the subject is raised.

Then the thread got fun when Lew tossed this into the mix:

Once upon a time, Lew fancied himself a journalist, with a pathetic hope that his buddy Lou Brancaccio at the Columbian fish wrap would pick him up as an editorial columnist. Any responsible journalist would try to get a comment from the person in question, present both sides of the story, etc.  What are the odds Lew would do that?  None, of course, because any reality check might dampen the evil picture Lew is trying to paint. 

Crazy Carolyn Crain pops up and wants proof:

Of course, if Crazy Carolyn Crain and her cronies want to see things like this, they should quit blocking anyone who puts a reality check on their delusions, gossip and insinuations.

Steven Nelson is only too happy to oblige, but conveniently edits the post, leaving out a significant clip where David Gellatly is quoted absurdly informing that a candidate for the 17^th LD chair is not allowed on the premises of the Clark County Republican Party Headquarters, because he has been “trespassed”.  (For the record, Gellatly claimed that the trespass order was arrived at by a unanimous vote of the executive committee in closed session.  The executive committee is not allowed to pass votes in closed session, those who were there unequivocally state that the vote was not unanimous, you cannot bar someone from a public meeting unless they are being disruptive at the moment, and no notice was given to the six individuals in question, nor a police report filed.)

But of course, Lew has no words addressing the absurdity of excluding a political candidate from a meeting where the election will take place. If this were one of Lew’s circle of cronies, this would be considered high treason and he would be shouting from the rooftops about the injustice. (It’s just politics when we do it.)

Then the county idiot Dino Ramzi throws his nonsense into the mix:

Uh, newsflash, Dino.  Second Amendment rights apply everywhere inside the United States of America.  The Clark County Republican Party does have the right to declare itself a gun-free zone on its private property, but has not, because the left would have a field day with that.  Can you imagine, the party that supports gun rights banning guns on its premises?  Anyway, guns, openly carried and concealed, are a common sight in Republican meetings, for a variety of reasons. 

Then Dino suggests that defamatory publicity be banned from the party.  Nice of him to pontificate on behalf of a party that he has repeatedly and publicly denied having anything to do with.  I wonder if he means all of the malicious gossip Lew and Carolyn pitched by the bale while Kenny Smith was chairman?  No, I suspect the issue of defamation would be determined by a star chamber composed of Lew, Carolyn and their like-minded sociopaths.

Of course, the next time Dr. Dino says anything that makes sense will be the first.

Then David Knight, one of the few remaining people in the group capable of clear thought, corrected Dino, and was promptly put in his place by Carolyn:

“Crazy People” Carolyn?  Oh, you mean that group of duly elected officers of the County Republican party who happen to disagree with your nonsense.  Blocking Republicans from office?  Carolyn seems to be talking about the 2015 meeting when the Central Committee voted to withhold endorsement of Marc Boldt in his race for the County Chair position.  Marc Boldt did not run as a Republican, he ran (and is running again) as “No Party Preference,” and was then and remains under party censure from his previous shenanigans while in government office.  Crain and her group of lickspittles staged a walkout from that meeting in an attempt to break the Quorum and stop the meeting.  Of course, in typical style, they didn’t leave one of their own in the meeting to make a quorum call, so even if they did have the numbers, it wouldn’t have mattered.

But even if you don’t think that was disruptive, Crazy Caroline has been nothing but disruptive in many other ways.  In spite of the contribution she could make to the party, she refuses to cooperate in any way with those she considers her political enemies.  She has staged numerous walkouts in protest because her silliness wasn’t adopted by the party, and she formed the Republicans of Clark County PAC, which she designed as a disingenuous  unelected mirror organization to fool the vast majority of uninformed voters that the elected Clark County Republican Party supported candidates that it was diametrically opposed to. She has been openly and publicly critical of anyone in the party who she feels has slighted her – this list is long and distinguished.  Her PAC has supported Democrats like Ann Ogle and her associations and coffee dates make it clear that she has more friends in the Democrat party than the Republican Party.  One has to ask why the hell she even identifies as a Republican, given that she hates so many of them.  Honestly, if the Democratic party wanted to plant a ringer in the local CCRP to disrupt things and confuse people, the only person it could find better than Carolyn Crain for the job would be David Gellatly.

But let’s back up to Lew’s original post.  Seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to find out what Emerson meant when he posted that ill-considered remark, and well, hell, right there on a thread in the group 3rdCongressional District Republicans WA State, he explained what he meant and why he said what he did.  What are the chances this will find its way into Lew’s narrative?

Of course, David Gellatly can never keep his mouth shut when his veracity is challenged.

But the truth is a whimsical concept to David, subject to revision and reinvention from moment to moment.  Rick Halle stepped in to set the record straight.  This, of course, led to volumes of backing and filling by DRG until it devolved to schoolyard name calling, which is about where his emotional development got arrested.

Further down Higdon's thread, other rational people in the group apparently gave Higdon and Lew’s Libertarian nonsense a reality check, because Lew exercised his privilege as thought police and shut it all down and posted his little tantrum:

Apparently the debate wasn’t going well for the Oligarchy.  David Knight, risking banishment, reflected correctly on Lew’s inconstancy and hypocrisy. 

You are only allowed to criticize those that Lew disagrees with.  Unfortunately for Lew, this is not a tyrannical dictatorship with thought police ensuring that only approved discussions are conducted.  Yet. But Lew and Carolyn are doing their best to get there.

When you look at nonsense like this, it’s no wonder that the Southwest Washington Opinions group has become so moribund.  Those actually interested in discussing opposing views concerning the area have fled to Opinions of Southwest Washington, where the thought police don’t patrol and censorship is virtually nonexistent.  Of course, the likes of Lew and Carolyn would never venture there, because they can’t exist outside their safe space where their absurd views actually get challenged in the marketplace of ideas.