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.
I second!
Yeah, anything to take our minds off the stimulus package and the budget. Cheez.
The moron went on the warpath against Rush. Flush him down the toilet.
Another lie. He never agreed with anything of the sort. Being ambushed in an “interview” is not agreeing.
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I like the quote on your profile, it’s funny.
#203... *snicker* wtg!
Well, I would take Keyes over Steele, I think.
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Hell yea and he’s not afraid to call the Communist a Communist and ask to see that real birth certificate.
grow some cahonies...Pubs.....dissagree throw a few punches and then shake hands....
this is no time for the weak and wimpy.
Fisher went on MSNBC tonight to trash Steele to Rachel Maddow. My teen-age son was channel surfing and called me in to see it. I am VERY suspicious of this lady and her motives. We don’t need people supposedly on our side talking trash to the likes of Maddow.
Michael Steele is the guest for the Bill Bennett program Morning In America which is on right now. As yet he has not been attacked, but of course that could change.
That's exactly Al Gore's position on the 2nd Amendment...Maybe I'll vote for Al Gore for the RNC chair...
Well, since you consented...
Rude and stupid is no way to go through life, bitch!
The rest of your blathering was indecipherable
Oooh, my bad. Next time we chat, I'll have a four year old draw a nice pretty picture in crayon. You might be able to understand that, but I am not too optimistic.
Now that is an excellent question!
I read just fine. They want to apply the conservative principles in a way that would reach hip-hop black culture.
He isn’t saying let’s go do a rap.
come on.
Some of these people want to see the GOP die a painful death, Dark. That’s what I have come to conclude.....they have such a fear about anything out of the normal for the party.
Now I know why government teachers say conservatism tends to resist change. I used to think that was a simplistic definition, but on FR, it works much of the time.
I wish I could disagree.
I also wish one of these people could explain why presenting CONSERVATIVE values--which is what Steele said, not changing to appeal to "hip hop" audiences, but to show how they should come to US--is a bad thing. Isn't that what we're supposed to be doing--getting more conservatives?
Other than kneejerk racism or simple fear of anything new, I don't understand the problem with this specific statement.
I would think less of anyone who would discuss politics publicly with D. L. Hugeley or other so-called comedians. That would be like Sarah Palin having a serious debate with Alex Baldwin.
Blacks really, really need to come to terms with their own racism. There is nothing today's whites can do about slavery having happened. It has happened to whites as well, and it's fully accounted having happened to Jews in the Bible they often thump. Economic oppression also has happened to the Irish and the Scots-Irish in this country, by other white people, and it continues to this day -- I heard Dr. Phil recently refer to an stereotypical emprisoned man as "Bubba" and the audience laughed. There is no ethnic group that has never had oppressed populations. That is why we have a U.S. Constitution. Racist politics destroys the promise of liberty.
I agree. Steele must go. The media in my opinion is not to blame. I blame Steele for saying what he said and for this debacle. I want a real conservative to run the Republican party. He is not a true conservative.
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