Timothy Birdnow

Dana Loesch, who worked for Breitbart but now works for the #nevertrump Glenn Beck, has bad things to say about Steve Bannon:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/14/dana-loesch-has-a-warning-for-america-about-steve-bannon/

"I’ll say this. I like the idea of Reince Priebus being in there, and being a key figure in the Trump administration,” says Dana. "But I can’t say the same thing for Steve Bannon.”

"Steve Bannon puts himself above everything,” she continued. "And I’ve worked with Steve, and I just don’t think this is a good fit for the country. Maybe it is for Steve Bannon, but it’s not a good fit for the country.”

Dana went on to explain that this position is a position of service to the voters and to the country, and because of this, is not a good place for a man like Bannon to be.

"You cannot go into this position with vengeance in your heart,” says Dana. "You cannot go into this position with pettiness in your heart, and that therein would disqualify Steve Bannon.”

End quote.

Dana left Breitbart under less than pleasant circumstances (and the St. Louis Tea Party the same way) and she may know things that we don't - or not. The point is, I think she has this exactly backwards in many ways; Reince Preibus is a RINO, an Establishment guy who had the good sense to stand with Trump. It was a calculated risk, but he took it. But that doesn't make him any less RINO-cerous.

Remember when Todd Akin was challenging "Air Claire" McCaskill? Akin made some foolish remarks to the media that got him in hot water, and when the GOP tried to force him out he refused to go. Preibus pulled the rug out from under Akin, refusing promised finanacial support because (I paraphrase) "we are looking for people who will put the country first" despite the fact that there wasn't really any good alternatives at that point and Preibus prefered to lose the Senate seat rather than swallow his RINO pride and support Akin. As a result of the ostracization of Akin and his loss of needed money McCaskill won by a very narrow margin - won a seat the GOP could easily have picked up. But John Danforth (the likely leak to Media Matters as Akin's comments had died a dull death weeks before) hated Akin and his RINO bonafides pushed Preibus and the other GOP Elites to disown Akin. Preibus was prepared to surrender a Senate seat to satisfy his party elites.

Preibus is an olive branch to the party bosses.

Meanwhile Bannon is there as hatchet man. Trump is going to need hatchet men or the media and Democrats will gnaw his entrails out. If Bannon is, as Dana says, vengeful and petty then he will ultimately have to answer to God for it, but God uses the sinner for his own ends and politics is full of vengeful and petty people. Certainly it is a boon to a Republican where he must fight an entire political party and an industry dedicated to vengence and pettiness.

Anyone remember Lee Atwater? He too could have been characterized as vengeful and petty, but his presence served the Reagan Revolution well. Atwater was no small part of the Conservative movement, and where Reagan was the smiling and cheerful leader Atwater did the dirty work. Somebody has to do the dirty work.

Now I know nothing about Steve Bannon except that the media hates him - which is a strong indication he's an effective political opponent. Dana Loesche may know more about him, and indeed may be right, but her criticisms here just do not justify throwing Bannon overboard. In my view they are resume' enhancers.

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