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.