Posted on 03/05/2009 9:23:17 AM PST by SolidWood
Michael Steele should resign as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, according to a committee member from North Carolina.
In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman, said Steele is "eroding confidence" in the GOP and that members of his transition team should encourage him to step aside. Fisher added Steele's personal e-mail address to the e-mail.
"I don't want to hear anymore [sic] language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn't going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish," Fisher wrote.
Fisher, who is one of three black members of the national committee, backed South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, whom Steele edged out in the final round of voting to win the chairmanship in late January. She has voiced repeated opposition to Steele, sending dozens of e-mails to committee members even after Steele won election slamming him for any number of chips that have fallen awry.
Fisher’s call for Steele’s resignation comes amid growing frustration in the GOP that the new chairman’s repeated gaffes are hurting the party.
It remains unclear just how much trouble Steele may be in with his own membership. While several RNC members have told The Hill that Steele remains popular with their bases, Washington-based strategists are grumbling, an attitude that is slowly filtering down to the states.
Steele appeared over the weekend on Hughley's CNN show, where he fought back against the assertion that radio host Rush Limbaugh was the "de facto leader" of the Republican Party. Steele said he himself was the de facto leader and called Limbaugh an entertainer whose program's content was "incendiary" and "ugly."
On Monday, Limbaugh shot back, saying on his show that Steele was not the leader of the party and that many conservatives would "hang up" when Steele's RNC came calling for contributions.
"Limbaugh has already promised that 'His Conservatives' won't be giving to the RNC. I would suggest to you that that is a real bet," Fisher wrote. "If we can't raise money and continue to allow the alienation of the few varifiable [sic] red states remaining, we are foolish."
Steele later said he had reached out to Limbaugh to clarify his remarks, insisting he meant no offense. But the incident elicited crowing from Democrats, who for weeks have pursued a strategy seemingly designed to elevate Limbaugh to the front of the GOP line. Democrats would enjoy contrasting themselves with Limbaugh's assertion that he wants to see President Obama's economic policies fail.
Calling the Limbaugh-Steele clash a "Republican Horror Show," Fisher expressed what some other GOP strategists have until now only said privately: "I have never seen such ineptness in our GOP leadership," Fisher wrote. "And I though we handled the 2008 elections very poorly."
Fisher could not be reached for comment Thursday morning, while the RNC did not immediately have comment on her letter.
If the RNC does not shed itself of this mistake, forget it. He has been stumbling along since day 1, and finally he got trapped and turned around and used an uzi on US.
If we fire him, it will mean that we fired STUPIDITY.
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I agree. I knew he was weak, and a HUGE mistake when he was MIA during the Porkulus fiasco. we don’t need a hider, we need and in your face type of person.
What is he doing to punish Snow, Collins, Spector?
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NOTHING and they continue to vote with the Dems giving them their 60 majority. I think I hate these 3 traitors. They were bought. Pay to play.
It wasn’t a clip. It was an entire segment with Hughley, Steele and Chuck D. There was no missing context at all.
I would have voted for Ken Blackwell or Katon Dawson, both solid conservatives. Keyes isn’t even a Republican anymore and he obviously had no organizational skills even when he was.
I would not have voted for Steele for RNC chair because of his liberal history. However, when he was elected, I said: “OK, give him a chance, let’s see what he can do.”
But no more. Steele can never recover from his evil and treasonous remarks. No conservative will ever be able to trust him again. Ever. He can and should apologize but that does not change the fact that he needs to go away. Now.
I heard it too. Man I would LOVE to post that. Rush doing the Cramer segment just now was absolute gold. I need to download it at home for posterity. says mainstreet.com
Laura Ingrahm played this song as Obama-Cramer theme, it was killing me.
Oh, look what you’ve done
You’ve made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems like such fun
Until you lose what you had won
http://lyrics.astraweb.com/displayp.cgi?f=jet..a_lot_like_love..look_what_youve_done
On the other hand, you numb-nuts who don't understand that falling for the trap set for you by the Obama hit squads, aren't very smart at all. Keep shooting our own guys and pretty soon no one will be left but you really brave, badasses.
No one was talking to you. If you’re going to jump in, at least, read the posts, moron.
I wonder what kind of goodies 'her brotha' has promised her to hype up the rhetoric a little more in the dimocrats dedicated effort to divide the RNC. Geez!
Thanks for proving my point. Go sit down.
“Ada Fisher for RNC chair.”
Willful ignorance becomes you.
The RNC will surely fold now without your Daddy Warbucks money behind them!
Unlike you, I prefer to read and understand enough to know whether I am ignoring facts in evidence or not. In your view, are thoroughness and accuracy vices?
Ed Gillespie was the best RNC director imo. After he resigned, the party started falling apart. I wish Ed Gillespie would return. Seriesly.
Rush isn’t really an entertainer. Wayne Newton is an entertainer.
The point is, he is not one of our own, he belongs to the McCain wing of the party. ie the losers.
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