The editors of the Richmond Times-Dispatch take RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick to school.
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Jeff Frederick seems eminently qualified to serve as chairman of the Republican Club at Sean Hannity Middle School. The delegate from Prince William serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia instead. There’s the rub.
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In seeking to install an adult as chairman of the RPV, McDonnell is displaying not only spine but his appealing temperament. He repudiates the excesses attributed to factionalists. If the central committee ousts Frederick, as it should, then McDonnell will have polished his image. If the committee fails to do its duty, then McDonnell still will have displayed his reasonable persona to the general public. It is possible that the controversy will lead ideological adolescents to take their Nerf balls and go home, but McDonnell’s stand helps him with the voters who decide Virginia elections. Political considerations are not the real reason McDonnell earns admiration, however. He earns it because he is doing the right thing.
Sounds like a win-win situation.
As an aside, the Richmond Times-Dispatch is only a few blocks away from RPV HQ. One would think we would have a better relationship with the local newspaper.
UPDATE: The conversation at RedState continues to intensify.