Posted on 03/03/2009 6:39:51 AM PST by sldghmr300
Dear Mr. Chairman,
When Tom Reynolds was chairman and I contributed the maximum allowed by law to help elect and then re-elect President Bush, I was happy to contribute. I was asked to become a leader and to visit the White House and attend multiple events in Washington, DC and even considered the invitations, but had a business to build.
Later, when it appeared that the business community (US Chamber of Commerce) and the Republican majority was about to create another attempt at amnesty for illegal immigrants, I wrote Chairman Reynolds I would no longer contribute until the party got back to it’s roots in law and order, American exceptionalism and national security, I would not send another dollar. I have kept that commitment and the party has continued to move toward liberalism and I will keep my commitment until the party returns to conservative principles.
I read with great displeasure the comments you made regarding Rush Limbaugh’s position as “voice of the Republican Party”. Your comments, in context, appears sophomoric, self aggrandizing and weak to both the opponents of the liberal agenda and to your supporters as I have been. I, as well as millions of conservatives, have supported you personally and politically for years against the racist, desperate, and cruel attacks by the press and politicians alike. Reagan stated that Republicans should do “no harm” to one another. You might reconsider your thinking in this regard. You might consider re-thinking your impressions of Rush Limbaugh and by extension, conservative talk radio as well.
I mentioned American exceptionalism earlier and until you and the Republican Party begin to recognize who is the real enemy of this country and where the true future of America resides, the party will continue to lose elections and fail the very people who have made this country great.
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
Sincerely, Sldghmr300
Resign now.
Sincerely, pnh102.
Along with letters to Mr. Steele, I would highly recommend telephone calls; millions of them. Perhaps, we can find his direct telephone number so we can each call personally. I called last week. Apparently, the best they can do is let us leave a message on their answering machines.
LLS
Steele should go. 2010 and 2012 are too damned important.
Nice going GOP. This is what happens when you embrace affirmative action.
Rush to Judgment [Mark Steyn]
Kathryn, in all the Rush-bashing, I was more disturbed by Michael Steele's wretched performance. His initial reaction — that Rush's show is "incendiary" and "ugly" — revealed:
a) that he never listens to it;
b) that he takes his cues from the mainstream media, for whom Rush is invariably "angry". They don't listen either. Rush is a lot of things, but "angry" isn't one of them. If you catch him for 20 minutes, you know he's full of fun, laughing it up, having a grand old time. There are a lot of angry talkshow hosts out there bellowing at the world for three hours a day, but Rush isn't one of them. (Full disclosure: I guesthost for Rush once in a while, and regard it as a signal honor for a sinister foreigner such as myself.)
This first reaction is disturbing for two reasons: first, given the size of Rush's audience, it's something an RNC chairman should not be so obviously foreign to; second, it's not encouraging when the de facto face of the party accepts so unthinkingly the liberal/media framing of the issue.
Then we come to Mr. Steele's second response - his reaction to the reaction to his original reaction: By apologizing for his first remarks, he opened the door for his DNC opposite number to make sport of the way he was kowtowing to the "ugly" Limbaugh. So a man who apparently shares the elite's disdain for Rush and his audience nevertheless feeds the impression that the Republican leadership is prostrate at his feet: the worst of both worlds.
In two brief soundbites, Mr. Steele has managed to suggest to his own party base that he has a lazy disposition that reflexively shares the liberal biases, and to allow the wider world to portray him as a craven squish. This is not encouraging. At the very minimum, he does not appear ready for primetime.
Here's my reply:
Mr. Steele -
Rush gets it. You don't.
Althought Steele has appologized, that’s too little too late for the RINO who panders to the same black racists who call him an “Uncle Tom”, “house n****r” and throw oreo cookies at him, yet he doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to their slander.
Tavis Smiley “State of the Black Union Conference.”
http://c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?ProgramId=HP-A-40849
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/02/the-vile-bile-we-have-to-put-up-with/
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2005/11/oreos-for-uncle-tom.html
Apparently Chairman Steele stepped in it AGAIN: When D.L. Hughly said that the Republican convention looked like a bunch of Nazis,,,Steele replied, “you are right”.
I just wrote him again: two strikes and you’re out.. I’m done with the RNC.
I would have much rather had Ken Blackwell than Micheal Steele. Steele couldn’t even win in Maryland against an old White geezer with zero personality.
Better yet, I’d like to see Walter Williams take the position. He’s taught me more economics than I ever learned in school and he would make short work of most of these lib talk show hosts!
Although Ken would have been a ballsier choice, neither of these mild-mannered nice fellows is what is required to save the Republican Party.
Both believe in "Amnesty," by one name or another.
Both take their cues from the MSM
Both believe in "Global Warning"
Both believe in "Greening" the Republican Party
Neither has ever mentioned "Vote Fraud," (Cost Steele lots of votes.)
In short, BOTH of these otherwise splendid chaps, are RINOs to an unacceptable extent. Both are afraid to be unpleasant and are reduced to trembling tears by MSM coverage ... or even the threat of it..
In re Steele's tragically stupid campaign against a Democrat nonentity in MD: He would not take advice. He thought his commercials (which he wrote) were "funny." He never said a word about the shocking vote fraud that is a fact of life in Eastern Maryland. He never confronted the African-American groups who reviled him and caused him to lose the black vote by landslide proportions. And the RNC which he now heads did very little to help him ... or anyone else.
Good plan.
I was for Blackwell too, Catman67. He had some good ideas and I think he is a true Conservative.
We’ll just have to see what happens with Steele. He’s going to be on Laura Ingraham tomorrow morning..
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