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.
“His ridiculous coments about the GOP going after the “hip-hop” crowd was completely laughable.”
Doncha know that’s a lie? Deb said so in Post #20.
Steele’s eroding confidence in the GOP. Yeah. It’s all his fault.
[making the ring-around-my-ear gesture]
Honestly this ‘scandal’ around Steele is inconceivably stupid to me.
Who cares? Republicans are going to get attacked regardless. Steele is not capable of being the RNC Chairman.
Give to the NRA.
Agreed
Let’s draft Ted Nugent.
We need someone like Glenn Beck to take over, imho. Someone who is NOT afraid to say it like it is, call it all out in the open and who has the balls to do what needs to be done to bring back true CONSERVSATISM!!!!
Good idea! My husband gives to them regularly...might be time for another donation.
LOL. Anything posted by Deb should come with a Barf Alert.
I couldn't get your link to work.
Well, what it comes down to is, do we want to yank the splinter out now, or wait until it possibly festers?
She needs her meds.
And we should put RUSH in charge of the RNC...they didn’t “contrive” THAT!
Yes. And Steele has succeeded in doing so in several ways.
I totally agree with you. Steele has to go.
The group with principles.
“Society should draw lines. What do you need an assault weapon for, if you’re going hunting? That’s overkill. But I don’t think that means you go to a total ban for those who want to use gun for skeet shooting or hunting or things like that” -Michael Steele
We don't have a lot of time, my friend. This country is going down the tubes fast and we need someone with some leadership skills to fight the Dims & Zero. We need someone with backbone & ba**s.
... and we need it fast!
HECK why not RUSH! LOL
Yeah, you saw the “clip”. So did everyone else. Why do you think you saw the clip and not the whole segment? Nice job buying the lie.
Steele agreed with the host that Republicans are “like Nazis” in the same CNN interview where he, unprompted, said that Rush Limbaugh was “ugly and incendiary.”
Funny! That's the same thing the others are saying about Barack Hussien Obama.
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