NRSC Plans to Lose California Senate Race

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the part of the GOP charged with electing Republican Senators, is apparently planning to lose the race next year to Barbara "Dumb as a Box of Rocks" Boxer. Red State reports from the California GOP convention in Indian Wells:

I’m writing to tell you about the loose talk here about Carly and the NRSC, emanating from the friends of Larry Elder.

You know Larry Elder: the African-American, Californian, libertarian, popular radio host and firebrand. He’s been around for a while, and he’s a solid presence on the California media-and-politics scene. Elder is a serious name and presence among California Republicans. He just wrapped up his radio show. “Why,” you might ask, “doesn’t Larry Elder run for the Senate?”

There is an answer accorinding to many of Elder’s friends at the Republican Convention — Senator Cornyn and the NRSC told him not to.

Here’s the story that is circulating at the convention: Back in the spring, Elder went to Washington to sit down with John Cornyn and the NRSC, and ask for their support for a bid for U.S. Senate against Barbara Boxer. Cornyn and the NRSC told him the following:

1. If Elder chose to run, they would not support him.
2. The NRSC was already committed to supporting Carly Fiorina
3. The NRSC expected Fiorina to lose against Boxer, but expected her to tie up Democrat resources in the meantime.

So Larry Elder came back to California and did not run. You know the rest: he’s watched the Fiorina campaign move from crisis to crisis (failure to vote, Iran sales, revelation of no self-funding, no CRP attendance, this Rasmussen poll, that website, etc.), and feeling increasingly frustrated. It’s probably too late for him to enter and Larry is hot under the collar that Cornyn gave him such terrible advice. So he’s talking to his friends — and his friends are talking to us — and I’m talking to you.

How incompetent is this? The NRSC actually told a popular African-American with statewide name recognition to NOT run? Last I checked, our party isn’t overflowing with those.

Oh, and the NRSC expects Carly Fiorina to lose to Barbara Boxer — and they told a talk radio host this?

California Republicans are used to a parade of incompetence and self-defeating stupidity at the highest levels of our beloved party. But this goes beyond what we’re used to. The NRSC nixed a perfectly viable and unique candidacy in favor of a candidate whose own website ponders if she is “coming soon?” I’d be mad if I were Larry Elder. In fact, I’m not Larry Elder, and I’m mad anyway.

In a debate Larry Elder would absolutely make Boxer looks like a stammering fool. He's a very sharp guy (I used to listen to his show from time to time). Too bad he's not in the race.

Why the national party would commit to a candidate this far out is a mystery to me, especially when another candidate, Chuck DeVore, is polling better than Fiorina. It seems like a strategy in which losing was the goal.