I don’t want to play gotcha journalism, but I just got off the phone with State GOP Chair Diane Tebelius, and well, she said some pretty stupid stuff.

I was talking to Tebelius about Rodney Tom, the former GOP state rep from the east side who recently changed suits to run as a Democrat. Tom’s rap is that the Republican party has changed—gotten too conservative.

Tebelius told me: “We didn’t move right, Rodney moved left.”
However, two seconds later, trying to paint Tom as a charlatan and opportunist, she told me: “Rodney’s positions are exactly the same as when he first got elected.”

Huh? If Tom’s positions are exactly the same as when he first got elected, but he’s also moved left relative to the GOP, doesn’t that mean—according to some physics law I learned in the 10th grade—that the GOP has in fact moved…to the right.

Sorry Diane. Gotcha!