I agree, but I will take this as a first step. As I've said here before, most of the blacks I know are conservatives - former military, 2 parent, church going, pro-life. They just need some help pulling that Republican lever for the first time. If Steele is that 'help,' then fine.
I know how it feels. I did it for GWB.
I'll never forget the first time I heard Rush on the radio...He was speaking "conservative", something I'd never heard before (This was 1988, I had heard the name William F. Buckley, but didn't have a clue what he stood for).
Well, it took me years before I would acknowledge "out loud" that I was conservative. Such was the stigma that the Left had created and fostered in those years.
Now I shout it from the roof top.