AZ RNC Committeeman Ash Inspires #ashtagged

“They oughta be taken in the back of that shed and shot in the back of the head, execution-style.” ~ Bruce Ash, Arizona Committeeman to the Republican National Committee, June 18, 2016

Arizona’s own representative to the RNC has a history of calling down violence upon members of his own party who can’t bring themselves to follow him blindly. In this case, he called for capital punishment for Trump campaign minders whose unforgiveable crime–according to Ash and in defense of Ash’s own dictatorial mandates for plenary party alignment–was their failure to block dissenting voices in the party from being imbued with responsibilities during the upcoming convention. This is just the latest group to get #ashtagged. Bruce #ashtagged conservative talker James T. Harris, calling for him to be “kneecapped”. Now with calls for Ash’s resignation growing loud and frequent, this author expects to be among many who get #ashtagged in the coming days.

I should be grateful as Bruce Ash clarified a point that I couldn’t sufficiently articulate solely by changing my party affiliation years ago: The leadership of the Grand Old Party will destroy the party, spectacularly, publicly, and from within.

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Monsters like Ash, who assume leadership roles yet just can’t help but batter and bruise the party brand, are the cause of every reason for which I left the Republican party. Mouthpieces of the party scream that there is room for everyone under the tent, but operatives like Ash, with all the swagger and aplomb of, well, of a Foster Brooks routine, usher swaths of voters right back out with clumsy, drunken threats. The Bruce Ashes within the party do a more effective job of driving the loyalty of the electorate out of the Republican party than they do engendering loyalty within the party. And it’s leadership like Ash’s that is undermining both major parties and fueling the new wave of voter outrage against the establishment.

After all the legacy media headlines about that “evil establishment” in the past year, both parties need to learn a few hard lessons before they go the way of the Whigs and the Anti-Federalists. For starters, Ash has just proven that the establishment has people all the way through the party, even to the lowest levels. Undoubtedly, Ash has his own puppets in the precincts; and the controls on Ash’s own marionette strings rest in spindly fingers someplace higher in the establishment hierarchy as well. The fact that he ran unopposed for his current party office implies that he has protection from on high. Comments like he continues to make, however, are indefensible and can and should take down higher powers with him. The party #ashtagged itself when it let this man of short temper and violent tendencies ascend the ranks. If either party wants to come out of this election intact, it has to start by ejecting the vitriolic and violent radical officials from top to bottom.

I join my voice with the many others calling for Bruce Ash to resign all party roles–even though I am no longer a registered Republican, I see Ash and people like him as extremely toxic to whatever the Republicans have left of conservatism in this country. If he refuses to step down of his own volition and in disgrace from his own vile comments, then it is incumbent upon every Arizonan registered with the Republican Party to contact the party and get active on social media, to withhold contributions to the party until he steps down, and to take every opportunity to point out how Ash’s brand of leadership gives votes to the opposition.

Bruce Ash, you’ve been #ashtagged, and you did it to yourself. And we won’t let you forget it.

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