RPV: The Party of Pontius Pilate
5th District appeal renders “but what is truth?” verdict in Bob Good Proxies' lawfare case against the Buckingham Unit. OPINION
If you read the RPV party plan, you will see the phrase "Grass Roots" regularly. If you watch what RPV does, you will witness an amazing disappearing act concerning these words, and the recent appeal of the Buckingham Republican County Unit is hard proof. RPV's failure to live up to its rhetoric regarding the grassroots first falls into the trap George Washington envisioned 228 years ago this September.
Weak men lead weakly. Weak men consider themselves first. Weak leadership risks victory in November. Rich Anderson's weakness has resulted in divisions within RPV, fulfilling Washington’s fears of self-serving rapacious harpies bending parties and membership to their will and subjugating the grassroots they claim to represent, thus subverting the spirit of our Founding. Anderson is weak. Anderson has fulfilled Washington’s nightmare and is also our Pontius Pilate. Anderson goes with the institution over defending the truth.
But he says all the Republican stuff!
Weak leaders rattling off common goals from old campaign postcards is mere pandering. You can’t always identify the weaklings by what they craft to tickle our ears while working against the common goals professed in pursuit or preservation of control and power. Deception, distraction, or passivity are all great vehicles as the situation arises. And being cowardly, they rarely admit their true motive publicly. Our party is rife with them. Don’t be shocked; it’s natural man's condition since Adam and Eve's expulsion. Washington spoke to it before setting the example of walking away from power and its temptations. The weakling submits to temptation; his only truth is having an advantage. Such it was with Pilate 2000 years ago and with GW 228 years ago. Two very different circumstances, but the politics of power are always the same.
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion… serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.” September 17th, 1796, Farewell Address
The Divine Rite of RPV’s apparatchiks:
The refusal to justly employ or walk away from power is how we know them- it has to be wrested from their grip. Washington recognized the problem and released the reins of power to show that it could and should be done to preserve liberty. Lincoln also recognized the problem and spoke about it in the Douglas debate before gaining the reins of power:-
When Lincoln delivered this speech, Karl Marx’s Manifesto had been in circulation for a decade. The motives behind all these historical examples are much the same as those of today’s 5th District Committee, whose motive is forcing its agenda—Bob Good, the Never Trumper, by coercion and divine right (he and his hardcore crew are Dominionists).
The Persecution of Buckingham
The Buckingham Committee deserves accolades for going public about the abusive behavior they endured from the 5th Congressional District Committee. Rich Anderson sat by and allowed the witch hunt, which is no different than the witch hunts Donald Trump endures, more minor in degree perhaps, but a witch hunt with the same maliciousness. Buckingham and chairwoman Ramona Christian stood as the sole Committee and Chair team unified in support of Donald Trump in the 5th. But it wasn’t Good enough (pun intended) for even one unit to defy the tyrants infecting RPV, so, wearing Bob Good campaign stickers, they tried Buckingham by distorting the Party Plan- lawfare. Their festive glee in destroying a committee of grassroots volunteers is easy enough to see in the video of the event. Washington warned about their type- thugs inserting themselves as the middlemen of the Republic. Lincoln warned about their type- they eat the bread of an entire unit. Pilate stood back from such a spectacle and washed his hands of it.
Their ruling was appealed and recently heard, and the finding of the committee charged with the task was pure Pontius Pilate. It was a cover-up, a cop-out, a poke in the eye with a sharp stick to all grassroots, and it had all the relativism and postmodernistic justice Democrat jurists employ to protect their crooks and weaponize the system.
Believing it beyond the scope of the authority of the State Central Committee, and finding no provision in the Party Plan permitting relief beyond that requested by an appellant, the Appeals Committee makes no determination regarding the validity of the claims or appropriateness of the actions by either the Buckingham County Republican Committee or the Fifth Congressional District Republican Committee.
Neither hot nor cold.
This statement is a license for any RPV office holder to abuse anyone in the rank and file. In other words, it implied open season on you and me. They don’t even have the guts to say what they mean. RPV is emblematic of Washington’s worst nightmares about the Republic bent to the will of rapacious harpies and the apathetic enabling cowards.
What is truth?
RPV’s primary objective is to protect the institution and its perceived glossy image and maintain the flow of money by shielding corrupt, self-serving party officials who regularly drive out grassroots from local units from exposure. The ruling hides corrupt actors behind veils of lukewarm pablum, so the grassroots will not know to demand action to address the corruption.
Just as Kamala Harris runs on the pretense of being an outsider to fix what she wrought in her administration, the 5th District enables the abuse of grassroots and committees under the pretense of blaming the inadequacy of the rules that they write, control, and interpret for their unwillingness to take corrective action.
How is this different from Democrats in general, who fix primaries to cheat their rank and file regularly? They hate free speech; they crave power; they will walk over anyone in their path to hang on to it. Washington’s nightmare, Lincoln’s rite of kings, and Pilate’s cop-out are all the product of the tendencies of an unconverted soul.
The idea that RPV has no authority over itself and cannot determine blatant misuse of the Party Plan to thwart the grassroots from choosing a candidate in a primary would be laughable if it were not so severe. If this is the institution Trump believes will deliver Virginia, he is in for a rude awakening on November 6th. We are the flip side of the same coin with the Democrat Party, and our so-called ‘leadership’ is patently Republican in Name Only and has established their Never-Trump credentials. All their litanies about free speech, the right to vote, pursue happiness, etc., are self-serving. The verdict is that the rest of us can eat dirt. Chris LaCivita and Donald Trump shouldn’t forget who wrote the letter below because all these names and more are now pitted to throw the election, and we have a hoard of screenshots from social media to prove it.
I’m just the piano player.
Now, before you go off and say, ‘But John, why are you bringing all this up just nine weeks before the most critical election in this country's history?
I’m glad you asked. The point is that these people aren’t concerned about winning; they only want revenge for Bob Good’s loss to John McGuire and Trump’s endorsement of him regardless of November’s outcome. “But that doesn’t make any sense, John!” Indeed, these people are driven by their bellies, not their brains. Pointing out division is not creating division. They are working to throw the election out of slavish devotion to a loser- BOB GOOD and they violate the Party Plan at every turn while using it to abuse the rank and file.
November is their (Good) G-day. Having denied the grassroots justice in this appeal, the plan turns to punishing their political enemies by dividing the ticket and publicly calling for a write-in campaign against McGuire in defiance of the Party Plan they used to roll Buckingham. RPV has no rule of law and is run on the whim of the types Washington feared. The beat down of Buckingham validated Lincoln’s point on the ‘right of kings’, dictating to the grassroots to fall in line and genuflect before the Good/DeSantis supporting county units chairs. Many of which privately, if not publicly, support the write-in campaign against Trump’s team and to kill the ticket in November… in violation of the Party Plan!
The takeaway.
The Buckingham appeal ruling was likely decided before the trial. The crafted language is perfect fudge, and it has no spontaneity. It’s prepackaged ‘everyone-gets-a-participation-trophyism’ outcome not unlike the placating confusion of gender dysphoria or socialism. A response as old as Pilate- pander to the various parties under your oversight so all can claim at least some crumb of victory; give them a Barabbas- save the institution for its own sake. Pure Anderson.
The difference between the two sides is simple: Never-Trumpers like Buchanan are crowing about getting off Scot-free for skinning MAGA grassroots and Trump and abusing the rank and file like some prosecutor painting a victim of rape as a willing participant. The takeaway is to know your place, as RPV can devour you, and there isn’t jack shit you can do about it.
In the long run, all this power-playing with Buckingham didn’t save Bob Good. McGuire, with earnest grassroots help, outworked and defeated these assholes. These same assholes intend to pay back Trump’s ticket in Virginia, a pathway State to victory in November. So, don’t blame me for pointing it all out; I’m telling you the lyrics; it’s their composition and arrangement.
If Rich Anderson believes that washing his hands of justice for the grassroots characterizes leadership and motivates turnout, he’s as dull-witted as Bob Good. Saying and doing whatever is expedient to silence the rank and file and give the power structure whatever it wants is not a winning strategy. Someday it comes back and bites you in the ass- ask Bob Good.
Pontius Anderson should consider Washington’s warnings and Lincoln’s observations and revisit the consequences of failing to defend the truth.
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You speak the truth, Bob Good and his minions care more about power than they do the people they purport to represent. I know first hand their tactics - pledge allegiance to Good or else.