Eagles have to fight for their right to par-tee

Republicans are beginning to eat their young as we watch Kathryn Jean Lopez get snippy with the RNC’s Young Eagles:

As the RNC looks for a new chairman, its voting members might want someone to pay attention to their Young Eagles program. This young group of donors might give off the wrong vibe about the seriousness of the stakes for the GOP. The Young Eagles were most recently mentioned in The Corner for e-mailing out an invitation to a party at The Breakers in West Palm proclaiming: “As is apparent to most of you, this election was not stellar, but let me give you some decent news…we lost far fewer House and Senate seats than expected…. We can either rest on our laurels, or we can move forward and rebuild and revitalize the party.”

(Um, what laurels?)

And now, there is this, which comes via forwarded e-mail, from an RNC "coordinator":

Subject: Young Eagles: "Turnin’ Up the Heat" Miami, FL Event

All,

Please find the attached invitation to the Young Eagles "Turnin’ Up the Heat" event in Miami on January 23rd and 24th. I hope that you can attend as this will be our first event of the New Year. It is imperative that we discuss and plan the future of the Young Eagles as we move forward and look to the 2010 elections.

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In terms of lodging, Miami has a plethora of options. Several choices to consider are The Fontainebleau (305) 538-2000), the Ritz Carlton (786-276-1144), or The Shore Club (305-695-3100).

I look forward to seeing everyone in Miami. …

I have nothing against even losing parties having parties, but I hope some of those Young Eagles share my reaction to this first YE event in the Age of Obama: The hard choices are not the Fountainebleau, the Ritz Carlton, or the Shore Club.

Obviously K-Lo doesn’t get it. The Young Eagles want to be taken seriously and the way to have people take you seriously is to act like adults. And what do serious adults do at conferences? They stay at nice places, eat expensive cuts of meat, drink top shelf alcoholic beverages, and play golf. And if they can get someone else to pay for it, all the better.

So if K-Lo doesn’t want to come down to Florida and help "Turn Up the Heat" by jumping out of a cake wearing only a Ronald Reagan mask, well, that’s fine. She doesn’t have to get all bitchy about it and harsh everyone’s mellow….