Kitty Barf: The Gestae of the RPA (1)

Dec 3, 2024

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Kitty Had a Hairball

As I lay in bed early one Saturday morning, my daughter walked into the bedroom where my wife and I were chilling. She promptly said, “good morning,” followed with “by the way, there is kitty barf in the mud room.”

At that moment, in deep reflection, I thought of the behavior of the Republican Party of Arkansas. Yes, kitty barf and the RPA are alike in a lot of ways.

First, nobody likes a sick kitty. When kitty barfs, it stinks. Kitty barf is sticky, and this particular variety had undigested seafood.

It caused me to think of the RPA at the 2024 State Convention. First, they moved it to Rogers to make it harder for most of the delegates to even make it to the event. Then, the powers that be tried to stuff the ballot box for chair by letting unqualified voters cast ballots. And that’s when kitty got its hairball.

Even with stuffed ballot boxes, the RPA lost the chair election by an overwhelming margin. Then, the body voted to close the primaries and take away the ex-officio voting rights at State Committee Meetings (among other things).

****GASP.

One person, a democrat, posted on Steve Womack’s social media page, “Why would you close the primaries—now I can’t vote for you.” John Brummett, democratic editorialist at large, lamented how he now must register as a Republican to vote for the weaker candidate.

This, gentle reader, is kitty barf on the floor. How to clean it up? Easy.

You make up rules that don’t exist to undo duly approved measures because the establishment is unhappy. You write legal opinions that don’t have any basis in the law. Then, you simply declare it null and void, even though the Convention is the final authority.

Just leave the kitty barf where it lies. Perhaps it will just clean itself up.

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