With all the daily articles about the once-Conservative Grand Old Party doing everything that it can to exclude true Conservatives from its meetings and conventions, like those who support Dr. Ron Paul, I am pleased to finally report some good news about the Republican Party.

This past Saturday, after a heated campaign, young Republican Delegate Jeff Frederick defeated the old guard John Hager, becomming the new Chair of the Republican Party of Virginia.

This year at the annual Planking of the Shads, me and another Ron Paul supporter had the opportunity to talk to Jeff Frederick to find out how he would differ from John Hager.  My main question to him was this:  What do you consider the role of the Republican Party to be in a primary election?

The reason I asked this was because during my time on the Ron Paul campaign, there were multiple times where the Republican Party specifically withheld certain information from the Ron Paul campaign that it gave to other camps.

So what was Frederick’s answer?

No role at all.  He said that the Party, during a primary, should just be there to make sure that ALL Republican campaigns had access to the resources they needed, and that it should maintain a neutral role until its members decided who they wanted as their candidate.

This was exactly the answer I was looking for.  Keep in mind that Fredrick had absolutely no clue that I was a Ron Paul supporter – therefore, he wasn’t just pandering to me during an election year.  And even better, after I expressed my support for Dr. Paul, his wife informed me that she was a Ron Paul supporter and had a Ron Paul bumper sticker on her car. 

A positive step in the right direction for the VA GOP.