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.
Fishers call for Steeles resignation comes amid growing frustration in the GOP that the new chairmans 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.
Good Lord, read the friggin thread.
Stupid response. Answer the question.
Of course, the guys who brought us the loss of the House, the Senate, then the Presidency. Yes that is who she should bow down to.
Not needed but for those on this thread that are a little slow on the uptake. </ Sarcasm>
Oh, gosh, I guess you and Michael Steele are just too weak to play in the big sand-box.
agreed... keep it up and see where it gets us as a whole...
some here never look at the bigger picture...
They are not our own, they are what the Country Club Republican Liberals have deemed we need. They gave us every loser since Newt brought down 45 years of democrat rule in the house.
This is not a time for Republicans to be fighting with each other. Fight with the insidious White House.
Like I said...READ THE FRIGGIN' THREAD!!! I don't take orders from cretins.
Your PMS filled rants on this thread are unreadable.
All,
The videos of Steele's reaction to the Nazi comment and the Rush question clearly show that Steele has made mistakes. While some here have over reacted a bit to Steele, Steele is still responsible for those major blunders and they are major blunders.
Let the record show that Deb, refuses to acknowledge those blunders or perhaps she's ironically too out-of-sorts to look at the "friggin" videos.
“Keep shooting our own guys and pretty soon no one will be left but you really brave, badasses.”
Ahhh! So criticism is VERBOTEN!
I agree. At this point in time since Steele has apologized, we need to move forward.
Perhaps Steele has learned from mistakes.
No republican with half a brain goes on a show with D.L. Hughley and Chuck D. unprepared for an ambush. If you can’t knock down the “Nazi Germany” BS in your sleep, you have no business leading the RNC.
I guess we could loan you Arnold.
Better now than this time next year.
So why would anyone—particularly a conservative—remain associated with this loser. GOP is owned and operated by RINOs and they are really demrats. The demrats will not allow RINOs to cede any power to conservatives.
Oh, and what about giving Steele and the GOP a little more time to shape up. The GOP has had 30 years to shape up. The only time it won big was with Ronald Regan. Subsequently it has totally rejected conservative input.
Time? It’s time for conservatives to realize they must create their own political representation in the form of a viable national party.
“Enough to turn me into a... Naw, cant go there...yet.”
Maybe what I am going to turn myself into is a member of the Australian Commonwealth or the Irish Republic.
GET OFF STEELE’S BACK!!!!!!!
That really isn't the point. As the leader of the RNC, it takes shape under his hand. He has already clearly defined himself as moderate, and declared his opposition to Conservatives, and did so freely, out of his own mouth.
When it comes time for elections once again, Where do you suppose the RNC's not inconsiderable influence will be placed? Do you really suppose that Steele is reliably rigging the RNC to oust RINOs and get more Conservatives on the floor?
Because that's where the rubber hits the road.
Apparently you have read the thread and not understood one word of it. Tourettes going full bore.
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