Yesterday I described the Brieitbart rules of political warfare as simple: If your side is on offense, you are winning. If you’re on defense, you’re losing. I suggested that recent events — a Fox News admission that its deceptive coverage of the Shirley Sherrod scandal was inept, the Friday night announcement of the resignation of Republican astroturfer Mark “Colored People” Williams from Tea Party Express and the media silence of tea bagger candidates Rand Paul and Sharron Angle — were all signs of the GO-Tea Party’s new defensive crouch. Now comes this.

It wasn’t a huge surprise when word came last week that the Republican National Committee announced it was holding a fundraiser in Beverly Hills. The GOP is desperately behind in fundraising, and Beverly Hills — as Willie Horton Sutton said when asked why he robbed banks — is where the money is.

What was surprising was that the headliners weren’t California GOP top-of-ticket candidates Meg Whitman (governor) or Carly Fiorina (U.S. Senate) — they were both no-shows. In fact, the only statewide candidate on the speakers’ list was Abel (Who?) Maldonado, California’s newly appointed lieutenant governor, who’s running a long-shot campaign to keep his seat against San Francisco’s telegenic mayor, Gavin Newsome.

Instead, the headliner chosen by Michael Steele, the RNC’s first African-American chairman, was to be Andrew Breitbart, newly famous, or rather, infamous, for publishing deceptively edited race-baiting videos that smeared civil rights pioneer Shirley Sherrod and led to the collapse of the anti-poverty group ACORN.

Over the weekend, however, in a Saturday morning news dump, the RNC announced it was postponing its fundraiser with new media’s top racist to a date uncertain and unspecified:

“We are working on scheduling and we fully plan to have another event scheduled soon based on our existing trips to California,” an RNC spokesman said in a statement sent to CNN.

The spokesman said the fundraiser was canceled “To better capitalize on the fall fundraising season that happens post-Labor Day, while also lowering costs by utilizing existing trips to California.”

With Whitman and Fiorina trailing their Democratic opponents Attorney General Jerry Brown and Sen. Barbara Boxer, respectively — and barring a dramatic upsurge in support for either of the two GOP candidates — it’s unlikely that the RNC will waste its meager resources on the $2 million-plus per week cost of political advertising in California this fall, which makes it more likely than not that the RNC’s trips to California post-Labor Day will be canceled.

So, reading between the lines, I think it’s safe to say the RNC is rescheduling its Breitbart fundraiser for either the 12th of Never or possibly the 14th of Not-Gonna-Happen.

Remember the Breitbart rule: If you’re on defense, you are losing, and the RNC and Breitbart are on defense about this fundraiser.

Update: Prompted by Majii’s note in the comments that the fundraiser had been rescheduled, I checked around and found this from the Washington Times, the right-wing paper owned by the Unification Church a.k.a. the Moonies:

However, an RNC spokesman told The Washington Times on Sunday evening that Mr. Breitbart would be welcome at the event, set for after Labor Day.

“I don’t know Andrew Breitbart’s schedule for after Labor Day, but he certainly will be invited,” RNC Communications Director Doug Heye said, reiterating that the event “has been postponed,” rather than canceled as CNN reported.

“We are working on scheduling and fully plan to have another event scheduled soon, based on our existing trips to California that will capitalize on the fall fundraising season that happens post-Labor Day,” Mr. Heye said.

I still very much doubt that there will a) be a fundraiser in California, where the big ticket candidates are all tanking in the polls and b) if there is that Breitbart will be “available” to attend. But please let me know if you hear any particulars about the rescheduled events. It would undoubtedly draw a huge anti-racism protest rally (which is just what California Republican candidates need right now) and I would not want to miss it.