Sam Merton Merten provides an excellent profile of Dallas GOP honcho Jonathan Neerman in the current Observer. I know Neerman. He’s the kind of party leader who is willing to confront reality. Surveying the current state of the party, he gives Merten the best summation of its problem I’ve seen:
“We spend way too much time worrying about shit that just doesn’t matter.”
Not just worrying about. Spouting off about and trying to win elections with.