UPDATE: I realized after finally publishing this post that I started earlier in the day that Jim Miller has one up, below on the main page, on the same topic. Thus, I'm turning off the comments on this one.

Count me among the flummoxed by Reed Davis's op-ed in today's Seattle Times, attempting to rip the Washington State GOP.

There are certainly fair criticisms that can be made of the WSRP as an organization - as well as the Washington State Democrats for that matter - over the course of the last decade and a half. But a critique from a man who helped run the King County Republican Party into the ground and then ran as a non-factor candidate for the US Senate hardly makes sense.

Davis complains of a lack of engaging activists, yet his own record as a county party chair was hardly outstanding on this score. He rues the ability of party leaders to embrace or eschew candidates. Yet his own failure to attract significant support while "running" against George Nethercutt - hardly a formidable statewide candidate - says more about Davis than the party.

Why he is thus qualified to offer such a critique in Seattle's largest daily newspaper is beyond me.