Nevada GOP: One big happy family

Politically conservative readers love to take a shot at me when I write something that doesn’t fall onto their end of the radio dial – especially when I remind them of the chaos their Grand Old Party finds itself in these days.

For proof that there is trouble in paradise, consider this week’s letter from former Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jim Uster to Gov. Jim Gibbons.

“Dear Governor Gibbons,

“It is with a great deal of pleasure that I write this letter to you in light of the events of the past few days.

“I watched your big politically motivated news conference with a great deal of disdain as you made such a big deal of the use of your veto stamp. At the time it did not upset me though as I already knew that you were politically impotent and that you were making a grandiose fool of yourself as you stamped away on bill after bill. Nice try but the Nevada legislature is far more powerful that you are by any stretch of the imagination. The voters of Nevada are far smarter than you give them credit for and realize your politically motivated vetoes are wrong for them and their families. You’re policies are flawed and the legislature and the people know it.

“It was with joy in my heart and total respect for the rational thinking members of the legislature that I witnessed the legislature do the right thing and politically neuter you time after time as they overrode your vetoes one after the other. You are without question a political has been and I call on you to step down and alloy the Lieutenant Governor to take charge of the state. That would be the honorable thing for you to do if you have any honor left and is the only way the Republican Party has any chance of electing a Republican governor in 2010.

“You snubbed the President of the United States, you vetoed a record number of bills which have been over-ridden by our fine legislators, you have been involved in one scandal after another, and you have been politically neutered. Don’t you realize your time has come and gone, face the facts you have been put out to pasture.”

I guess it’s too late for Gibbons to ask Uster to join his re-election committee.