Posted on 03/28/2009 7:18:23 PM PDT by Crimson Politics
Early this month, Michael Steele said that Rush Limbaugh was "an entertainer" and that his comments were usually "incendiary" and "ugly" on the Hughley Show. As a Republican politician is expected to, he must convince people and compromise on ideas when necessary. Michael Steele was right to emphasize that he is the Republican Party leader not Rush Limbaugh. Later however, he apologized to Rush Limbaugh about those comments, confirming Hughley's fear that Rush Limbaugh was the "De facto leader" of the Republicans.
I don't believe that Steele should have apologized, Rush is not the leader of this party, he's just one voice out of many.
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Michael Steele is the leader of the party, but he apologized for the disparaging remarks he made about Rush, and he should have.
When almost no one else will stand up and speak about limited government, what choice is there. Hardly anyone in Washington as the first clue and only a small handful of governors do.
Sorry, but he is the leader of conservatism today and may be the best representative we have had since 1988. He is not the leader of the GOP nor does he claim to be. The GOP is lost in the wilderness, and only if some decent leadership appears will it matter who leads the GOP.
Apparently you don’t understand that voters won’t vote for Republicans who act like Democrat wannabes—that includes those who are soft and squishy and try to be sooo nice to Democrats. Rush tells it like it is.
Rather be red than dead. Red state that is.
What a load!
I think we've come to a point where we think we know more about politics than our own politicians.
Hell, yeah!
No one is acting like Democrat wanna-bes... What are you talking about? There’s only like 3-4 Republicans who have acted that way. And if they had constituents that wanted them to act that way, then that’s their job.
Politicians act the way their constituents want them to.
If there are a lot of Republican politicians acting too much like Democrats, that means Democratic ideologies are spreading into Republican territory as PROVEN by this last election, and it shows that in order for Republicans to win elections they NEED to act like Democrats.
The people dictate the Republican party, not Rush Limbaugh or certain ideas. You have to understand that politics is a game, and you need to let your politicians play that game or we all lose.
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What a load of BS! The reason McLame lost is he was such a crappy candidate.
Michael Steele should not have apologized, he should have resigned and gone over to the Democrats whose bidding he does. He should make it official. We don't need more liberal douche bag lite democrats in the Republican party. If it is EVER to beat the Democrats it will not do it by letting the Democrats manipulate the strings of the republican "leaders" (to use the word "leaders" advisedly). An example of what we don't need is McCain's moron daughter excreting out of her mouth about Coulter who has more intelligence in one of her bleached hairs that McCain's daughter has in her whole 220 pounds.
Im want to know why Steele was “reaching out” in the first place. Thats not his job to reach out to communists. All I hear is crickets.
We got a live one here.
Were you the author of the article?
You have been here such a long time—a little over two months.
And you have already said, that if one does not agree with the author, well, then,you aren’t thinking about winning elections.
Rush is no one’s straw man. And if the GOP really wanted to win elections in 2006 and 2008, it would have listened to Rush.And we certainly would never have had Juan McLoser as a candidate if we really wanted to win the White House—MCLooney has been a grenade thrower at the GOP for the last eight years.
Rush had the guts to talk back to President Obama when Obama took on a private citizen and tried to tell Republicans not to listen to his show. I guess you have faced down a President who tried to take away your livelihood.
Our wonderful GOP leaders were speechleess and spineless as usual, but not Rush.
So take your Rush bashing elsewhere—it doesn’t sell here.
The GOP is flirting with going the way of the Whigs in one or two more election cycles. Conservatives have had it with being the red-headed step children of the GOP.
We helped the GOP win all three branches of the White House, and then we and our principles were kicked to the curb.
And for all of their hot air about loving America, the GOP, through their ineptitude, stupidity and spinelessness gave us Obama and a Democrat controlled Congress.
And the last line of the article was among the stupidest things I have ever read.
Your ridiculous assertion that we either love Rush’s opinions or we want the average citzens’s votes is a real straw man argument.
Are you saying if we don’t agree with you, we want to LOSE ELECTIONS? That’s quite a stretch!!
You need to understand that most people would not agree with you. I’m not saying most republicans or most democrats. Most average people will simply not agree. Most average people think the worst things about Ann Coulter, and now because of media focus they think the most horrible things about Rush Limbaugh.
As an intelligent politician, one should distance him/herself from Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Even if it means insulting them, that’s fine, whatever it takes to win. In the end, they’ll both have same ideas, so it’s a victory for Republicans.
You need to think differently. You need to think about what you would do as a politician to win. Participating in partisan politics leads to defeat. Obama did his best to keep his distance from any figure on the left. Obama kept himself away from calling the opponent names etc. In the end it helped him. He used surrogates a lot more to attack his opponent.
“liberal lite Democrats” are not the problem. In fact, I have barely seen any. Your standard of “liberal” and “conservative” is so strict that whenever a Republican party even considers compromising on an issue, he is automatically an outcast. This only leads to defeat.
Welcome to FR
He reaches out because he's a 'rat at heart. He is determined to destroy conservatism by purging all but liberals like himself from the GOP. He needs to go.
If we keep the idiot, expect more candidates like McLame.
Are you the author? Is the blog yours?
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