Renaming GOP Policy.

The Republican National Committee is as aimlessly desperate as the party's leadership itself.

From Greg Sargent on The Plumline:

It isn’t easy being Michael Steele these days.

A number of conservative members of the Republican National Committee are pressing the committee — and by extension, Steele — to officially adopt the position that the Democratic Party is socialist.

Over a dozen members of the conservative wing of the RNC have submitted a new resolution, to be eventually voted on by the entire RNC, that would call on the Democratic party to rename itself the “Democrat Socialist Party.” If the RNC adopts this resolution, the RNC’s official view would become that Democrats are socialists. From the resolution:

RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee call on the Democratic Party to be truthful and honest with the American people by acknowledging that they have evolved from a party of tax and spend to a party of tax and nationalize and, therefore, should agree to rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party.

I just reached RNC vice chairman James Bopp, a leading supporter of the resolution, and he confirmed that adopting it would mean the RNC officially designates Dems socialists. “We would be describing the Democrat Party this way if we adopt this resolution,” Bopp said.

This is politically dicey for Steele. In the past he’s refrained from calling Dems and Obama socialists, instead preferring the term “collectivists.”

But in a bit of a potential bombshell, Bobb claimed to me that Steele has privately told him “on several occasions that he agrees with the substance” of the resolution designating Dems socialists.

Jesus Christ, these Republicans are like whiny, snot-nosed kids. Their refusal in recent years to refer to the Democratic Party by its official name and as the Democrat Party instead is childish, "Freedom" Fries, schoolyard stuff.  Now these vacant dolts want to make their name-calling official policy?

The Plumline has updated what's quoted above, claiming that while Steele, too, believes that Democrats are a bunch of subversive socialists, he isn't ready to make that official policy.  

After all, that might confuse their actual official policy, which is to listen to Rush Limbaugh and nod in obedient agreement.