Will Reince Priebus be as funny as Michael Steele?

The Republican party has finally dumped Michael Steele, who pretty much everybody assumed they only chose in the first place because he was black, like the president.  It was the same logic that led John McCain to nominate Sarah Palin, thinking that Hillary’s supporters would abandon the Democratic party and vote for a woman, whether she had any qualifications or not.

Steele is thoroughly corrupt and comically incompetent but, in that, he is no different than most Republicans.  I’m guessing we’ll find

Reince Priebus and, presumably, his wife

some dirt on the new guy, Reince Priebus,  pretty soon.  At first I thought he was probably a closeted gay man, because so many Republicans are and because he has that funny name and certain mannerisms which remind me of Lindsey Graham, but he’s married with two kids and if that’s his wife pictured with him on his Facebook home page, she’s not half bad.    So I won’t belabor that point.

He has said he believes the Republican National Committee is part of the Tea Party movement, which is pretty weird, but it’s probably just pandering for votes, a la Scott Brown.  He said that if he were elected as RNC chair it would be through God’s blessing, but that’s actually a pretty mainstream thing to say and it isn’t anywhere near as weird as Mike Huckabee believing that the world was created exactly as it is 6,000 years ago and God just put the dinosaur fossils there to fool everybody or Mitt Romney following a religion that says when you die and go to heaven, you get to be God of another planet.  He  believes that anyone who is pro-choice (of course he said pro-abortion, because he’s a Republican and they say shit like that) has no business being a Republican, and he is opposed to same sex marriage.  No big surprise there.

Another thing that shouldn’t surprise anybody, since the teabagger wing of the Republican party loves  guns just as much as they love Jesus , is that he is the proud owner of five of the handy dandy little death sticks.  He did not mention if one of them happened to be a Glock semi-automatic.