Honorary Skepticrat of the Month: Tammy Bruce

OK, so folks may not exactly be clamoring for the honor of “Honorary Skepticrat,” but it just popped into my head when I caught a few minutes of Tammy Bruce’s radio show Saturday afternoon.  What did she do to earn it?

She said that the Republican National Committee had come “out of a coma” and improved to a “mostly vegetative state” to elect Michael Steele as its new chairman.  Pretty apt, I thought.  And, she gave a contrarian viewpoint on the opening of Steele’s acceptance speech, which lots of conservative blogs have been featuring. She criticized Steele’s description of the RNC members as “proud.”"  In her opinion, anyone on the RNC who is proud of the party’s performance should be fired.

I don’t have a transcript, so I’m paraphrasing above, but it was a nice, skeptical take on the self-congratulatory atmosphere surrounding Steele’s election.

To fully appreciate her comments, you probably need to know more about Tammy’s background.  Back in the early ’90s, when I lived in L.A. and heard her on the weekends on KFI, she was my favorite gun-toting lesbian talk radio personality.  Really.  Even though she seemed thrilled that Clinton won, and I agreed with her on very little, she was interesting to listen to.  Now, the first sentence on her biography page describes her as an “openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush authentic feminist.” She’s also a tiger in the war on Islamic terror.  Check out her bio.

In short, I think it’s fair to say that most conservatives have considered her one of “the good guys” since 9/11.  She’s no Republican, but her commentary on Steele’s election might as well have been from a member of the party, earning her this month’s Honorary Skepticrat honor.