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.
He also put JAG officers in the combat zones to make decisions, that got our fighting men and women killed, then gathered evidence to bring the survivors to trial. He was not good to our fighting men and women, even though he was popular with them.
He failed to protect his inner circle when he left office, and many of them will be bought up on charges, in the House. He did not pardon Scooter Libby when clearly he should have, since scooter was guilty of nothing.
This Conservative hasn’t given in years. I do give directly to candidates I like. I won’t have my money go to RINOs through the Party.
Gosh, I hate to tell you guys, but the Republicans have already been doing that.
In case you hadn't noticed.
We someone who can hit the ground running, not someone who needs on-the-job training.
I think we need all-around new leadership, people with vision who can communicate. Certainly, those responsible for the most brain-dead presidential campaign in recent memory need to go.
Ok, let's climb onto his forehead! CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, like Black Americans are going to turn their backs on the first Black President and come stampeding to the GOP because Mr. Steele is chief party hack!
You apparently want to remain the minority forever.
Read it.......show me where he wanted the GOP to be more hip-hop like.
What he said is he is going to work on making efforts to reach out to young blacks in the hip-hop culture, for example.
Why is that a bad thing?
Or do you think WASPS should remain the Republican Party until we eventually die a slow death as our party members begin to croak themselves....?
I second that motion.
I don't know if we are playing right into their hands. The Republcian Party can't survive with a black RNC chairman that stabs it in the back and then turns on its black members who chastise him for not fighting for conservatism. Sorry that's a prescription for failure.
Steele went too far.
Yea and Steel fell for it. I have listened to his comments over and over. HE IS NOT BEING MISQUOTED. He said and agreed with it he needs to live with it and man up..
The Right needs to abandon the GOP. The GOP is bought and paid for. There needs to be a movement established outside of the Washington GOP. They need to loudly proclaim the insanity that the Dems are pushing and the GOP is helping along.
See ya!
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