Posted on 07/03/2010 11:25:18 AM PDT by Justaham
Liz Cheney joined conservative calls for Michael Steele to resign his post as Republican National Committee chairman because his remarks about the Afghanistan war.
Steele's comments "were deeply disappointing and wrong," said Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, in a statement Saturday.
"The chairman of the Republican Party must be unwavering in his support for American victory in the war on terror — a victory that cannot be accomplished if we do not prevail in Afghanistan," said Liz Cheney, who serves as chairwoman of Keep America Safe, a conservative foreign policy group.
Cheney said she fully endorsed a letter by Bill Kristol, another Keeping America Safe board member, that called on Steele to resign.
"It is time for Chairman Steele to step down,” she said.
Steele was caught on camera this week questioning the U.S. military
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Absolutely amazing the number of people and the vast support Sarah has instantaneously garnered for a job still filled by Michael Steele, isn’t it?
Gee, just imagine the press were Sarah to “push” the black man out of his job....
Head’s up at #15!
I have no idea! He’s been under pressure to resign on occasions before, so you’re guess is as good as mine and likely better. What do you think?
I have no idea! He’s been under pressure to resign on occasions before, so YOUR guess is as good as mine and likely better. What do you think?
I didn’t but I’m blind as a bat./s :)
Ping to #15-—somebody’s trying to push Sarah into another trap!
The only house the Palin family would move into starts with a W and ends with a H.
Sarah likes her freedom to much right now and besides Sarah has to many other commits she has to honor.
So the ans. not just no but H*LL NO!!!!!!!!!!
Well I Know I don’t want to see Palin take his place. That would stifle her greatly at what she is already remarkably accomplishing across the political stage...if she’s going to run she needs to stay right there and at it as long as possible. The RNC position will cramp her.
I don’t want Steele there either...there’s just too many comments that lean the other way to my thinking...like he’s not in our ballpark...rather just playing the role.
But who could step up to the plate? Someone with a degree of pizzazz!
Sarah’s too smart to fall for this one. Taking this would not be her best move, IMO
I second that in a heartbeat.
I wonder if Sarah will even comment on this issue.
Given the firestorm tonight, she may feel she has to but I'm not smart enough to know what she should do. She is.
If she does, I suspect she'll give Steele qualified support while criticizing his remarks. She may, however, say nothing.
I despised him before he was annointed... thanks to bill bennett’s show... and I despise him even more now. He will become a dim after he is forced out.
LLS
The only thing better than that would be if, in addition to Steele stepping down, Liz Cheney became the new head of the RNC.
Steele should definitely step down - but more importantly he should never have been given the job. But the RNC was trying to be clever - showing they could be every bit as much into affirmative action as democrats and their newly elected president - and didn’t even stop to think about what they were doing.
Because, let’s be honest, Steele is un-fireable. He himself has already laid the groundwork for the “it’s hard to be black in the Republican party” fallout, and moving into election season it’s a really, really bad time to even be thinking about how his removal would play in the media.
Giving him the job was a stupid, stupid, STUPID move... But even more stupid was not thinking about the consequences. At the time Obama picked Hillary for SOS all sorts of people were cautioning him “not to hire someone he couldn’t fire.” The RNC might have found some wisdom in that advice, if they hadn’t been jumping all over themselves to show that they could be just as progressive as the Obamunists.
Get rid of them all in November. I can see why we lost in 2006 and 08 and I pointed this out then, before it ever happened. All this political positioning for 2012 is way too early. We are knee deep in November 2010.
Just blow this off until after we take back the House and Hopefully even the odds or better in the Senate.
Steele should step down, but for reasons other than pointing out that the war in Afghanistan under Obama's lead is indeed unwinnable, because the truth is that Obama is making sure that is the case, period!
And Afghanistan was consistently cited by liberals in the last decade as the morally right and strategically preferred war, no question about it. So now when Obama is the CIC he conducts the war as a fumbling idiot, so why is telling the truth about it merit a resignation?
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