Removing Steele as Chairman of RNC

Official 2008 Rules Adopted by GOP ^ | 03/27/2009 | Self

[Retired COB]

The first and most obvious is your assertion that we need moderates and democrats. This strategy is EXACTLY why we are in the mess we are in. That is a FAILED strategy proven time and time again.

Hear! Hear! I couldn't have said it better.

We have had numbers (even majorities in both houses) in the recent past, but they were Republicans who didn't believe in our party's platform. The result was more irresponsible spending and earmarks, larger government, and a huge blurring of the lines between where the Democrat and the Republican Parties stand on the issues.

Moving to the left to elect liberal to moderate Republicans will only serve to blur the lines further. We need a conservative litmus test for all of our candidates - and for our party chairman as well.

[Dahoser]

Removing Steele is all well and good, but if you don't also remove the people responsible for the affirmative action in the rules, it's a lost cause. They violate their own preamble to the rules:

BE IT RESOLVED, That the Republican Party is the party of the open door. Ours is the party of liberty, the party of equality, of opportunity for all, and favoritism for none.

with full-blown quotas:

RULE NO. 5

Officers of the Republican National Committee

(a) The officers of the Republican National Committee shall consist of:

(1) A chairman and a co-chairman of the opposite sex who shall be elected by the members of the Republican National Committee. The chairman or co-chairman need not be a member of the Republican National Committee. Except as otherwise ordered by a majority of the members of the Republican National Committee present and voting on the matter, the chairman and the co-chairman shall be full-time, paid employees of the Republican National Committee. The chairman shall be the chief executive officer of the Republican National Committee.The chairman or co-chairman may be removed from office only by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the entire Republican National Committee.

(2) Eight (8) vice chairmen who shall be elected at regional caucuses by the Republican National Committee members of the four (4) regions and shall be residents of and Republican National Committee members from their respective regions. The election shall take place in January of each oddnumbered year. The election of vice chairmen shall not require confirmation by the Republican National Committee. The eight (8) vice chairmen shall be composed of one (1) man and one (1) woman from each of the following four regions:

A party that has those for rules can't say anything to anyone about not having preferences. What a disgrace and betrayal to all who fight against affirmative action to have the poobahs in the RNC institute it for themselves. It tells us just how deep the problems are there.

[BubbaBasher]

Good catch. I was skimming for other data. I haven’t heard anything about a co-chairman. Is there one? What’s her name?