This time Eaton’s exhibitionism was all about trying to embrace Democrats from President Obama on down to a few mayoral candidates while the other GOP Chairmen look on with very moist palms — everything about it was typical of Eaton and that’s what’s wrong with him as the Brooklyn GOP Chairman
Since my headline above opened with this recent addition to the Kings County Republican Chairman Craig Eaton’s bummed-up story, this would seem like a good place to start. In a bit of a followup to his earlier reporting on the event, the Politicker’s Colin Campbell yesterday wrote, “One fun moment from Monday’s Brooklyn GOP gathering was when Chairman Craig Eaton described meeting Mitt Romney at the Al Smith Dinner. According to Mr. Eaton’s telling of the story, President Barack Obama, overhearing the two Republicans talking, interrupted to say, ‘There’re no Republicans in Brooklyn!’ Mr. Eaton said he responded, ‘Mr. President, we have more than a 115,000 Republicans in Brooklyn, and they’re all going to vote for President Romney!’ Mr. Obama apparently put his hand down for a handshake but turned it into a ‘big hug’ between the two instead.” ( Colin or Craig left the rest of the evening’s gaiety and what might have transpired thereafter to our imaginations. )
From what I’ve seen and heard about “The Great I Am” Eaton, this was a vintage moment — not what might or might not have happened at the Al Smith Dinner ( Good luck to Colin Campbell second-sourcing that tidbit!), but the telling of the tale at the meeting of GOP Chairmen and “prospective GOP candidates” at the Brooklyn Bar Association on Monday night past. For a guy like Eaton this was a double-dog prime-time name drop — “While chatting with Mitt Romney, President Obama interrupted, blah, blah, blah...blah, blah, blah; and I answered, blah, blah, blah ...blah, blah, blah...” If it happened, Eaton must’ve thought he’d died and gone to heaven.
Anyway, did Eaton think he was bragging about 115,000 Republicans in Brooklyn? Next time Craig Eaton is having a chinwag with his bros, Mitt and Barack, he should come up with a more manly number.
As for the meeting and the huddled masses yearning to breath Republican, Mr. Campbell’s piece from a coupla-days ago, “PAINTING THE TOWN RED – New York Republicans Look Towards 2013” seemed descriptive enough to show, yet again, how far the NYC GOP has fallen. Only two prospective candidates showed up: Malcolm Smith, a Democrat; and “newly-minted Republican,” Manhattan liberal Tom Allon. All of it was just enough to prove that Colin Campbell, or his headline editor, made a mistake and should have entitled the feature, “PAINTING THE GOP BLUE – New York Republicans Look Towards 2013”.
If Republicans want to get back to their last days of the semblance of some power in this town, they need to back a Giuliani-style Republican for Mayor and not give any of their County-wide lines to any Democrats, like DA Hynes, for example. Any other course would doom the Brooklyn GOP to the permanent status of a 115,000 party in a county the size of America’s fourth-largest city.
Closing with a bit of whimsy.... Even Gatemouth was able to chime in on all the festivities mentioned above by doing a riff on the Eaton’s Al Smith Dinner – Name Drop along with the spirit and a spirt of silly-jism : “Love and hugs are clearly all around. The President even hugged Brooklyn GOP Chair Craig Eaton (he would have hugged .... [name removed to protect the circumferentially gifted] as well, but his arms aren't that long). *** Obama hugs Eaton; Gatemouth hugs Judge [from another item in Gatemouth’s blog]; but will Eaton ever hug Judge?”
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