There was an interesting exchange last night between Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove concerning the state of leadership, or lack thereof, in the Republican Party. To cut to the chase, O'Reilly argued that there essentially is no central leadership or authority in the GOP, and this is causing problems in all kinds of ways. O'Reilly was particularly dismissive of the idea of party chairman Reince Preibus as any sort of real leader. Preibus has no real authority with respect to policy formulation, and that creates a vacuum in which the party has a hard time becoming united around any particular policy priorities or solutions.
