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.
Wishy washy on the 2nd amendment is a non-starter. Steele is just another one of our betters that is going to decide what products we are free to purchase and how our rights need to be restricted for the “good of society” and “the children”. IOW, a liberal fascist in GOP costume. he should just ask Pelosi and Reid for a seat at theri table. We don’t need RINO’s of this ilk IN our party, let alone one its leaders.
Ada’s view on gun control:
Fundamental to this free and democratic society is the “right to bear arms.” The second amendment to the United State Constitution clearly states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I support the second amendment.
The state of North Carolina is largely rural where hunting, fishing and protection of property are essential parts of our culture. The laws of this state also clearly allow the protection of oneself and ones property. It is essential that the effectiveness of any laws be assessed before any new ones are proposed or rewritten and as a US Congresswoman that I will do when issues so related come up. I have always stated that I support the rights of individuals to bear arms as long as they don’t point them at me. I stand by that position.
Steele is a man of faith? Right. Faith in liberalism, perhaps.
Hey Steele, get the hell out of where you have no buisness being, RNC.
They're going to love it a lot more if we allow the RINOs to stay in charge resulting in a flood of liberal doctrine to ensnare the country for the next several generations.
Shooting Steele will be easy. He proudly stated he doesn't own any guns during the only televised debate of the candidates. He was also the ONLY nominee who declared he had no guns. I don't want a non shooter protecting me and mine from those who wish to destroy the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment. One statement from Steele: You don't need an assault weapon to hunt ducks. That's overkill. Got news, he hasn't got a clue as to what the 2nd Amendment is all about and that really frightens me. He is from a state that hails as a paragon of gun control in the nation and that frightens me, too. He should step aside and let a real conservative take over. Because if Steele calls me for money, I am going to hang up on him or any of his RINO minions. The Republicans will not gather one red cent from me as long as he is in this position.
Hmmm...it was on the Laura Ingraham show...
Are you sure it’s not working I was just listening to it an hr ago. I think you need QUicktime or something.
All he said was “I’m not going to apologize for everything” or something like that.
I'm in agreement. I'm fed up with compromises and “give him/her a chance”. What you see is what you get.
I really am bored by the supposed conservatives who can never find anyone pure enough. Everyone is going to be less than you want and it always gives you cover to trash the only people willing to lug the party across the finish line.
I agree, when all the shooting is done we need to show up with a brilliant conservative party.
We must clean the house now no matter what the dems or the press say.
The hip hop thing totally ruined it for me. YUK! Loathe every aspect of it.
Hey, I’ll take the job, and the first thing I’ll do is go on record with best wishes for Obama...
to fail.
So, how is that RNC Kool-aide, and does the flavor improve if you put ice in it?
FWIW, you’ve gotta stand aside from the RNC, trust your own two feet, and stop trying to carry water for the GOP bigwigs. I used to be a card-carrying member, but I saw how they botched the shamnesty debacle, and let that membership lapse; I would only answer their calls to let the solicitor on the other end know what I expected of the RNC; that when they began to live up to reasonable expectations, THEN they’d see contributions increase; not until. I was NOT alone; thousands did similarly, but ALL of that fell on deaf ears, or so it seems, as the RNC continued — and STILL continues — to stand behind Congressional RINOS pushing for amnesty, and other policy positions corrosive to The Republic, and The Constitution. So, I cut them off entirely. If they want to talk to me, they can bloody well leave a message. I might deign to listen to it, but I’m not interrupting my life to listen to some RINO shill grovel for my hard earned capital.
Until the RNC cuts off all support for monumental fakes like Graham, Collins, Snowe, and Specter, ol’ Michael Steel can take his solicitations and stick ‘em where the sun don’t shine.
For now, the Conservative action plan has to be:
“THINK GLOBALLY. ACT LOCALLY”
Put your dollars behind proven local Conservatives, and bust your hump to forge a return to sanity from the grassroots up.
Any support for the RNC, at this point, only serves to validate the threadbare arguments rationalizing GOP support for bloated, invasive government; arguments that are, themselves, the tattletale testifying to the fact that the GOP has become everything fat, dumb, and lazy that it had always been in caricature. The GOP/RNC today is a political “Elephant Man” cartoon come to life.
Precisely.
There is no reason that Steele should be the head of the party. He is an affirmative action leader. He also demonstrates the idiotic notion that if you put blacks in leadership roles that blacks will therefore vote for you.
Here's a novel idea. Put people in leadership positions that openly state that we need:
Economic sanity. NAFTA and other free trade agreements have destroyed the economic base of this country. We need to re-build and tell the free traders to kick rocks.
End illegal immigration.
Privatize education.
Follow the constitution.
Reduce government spending.
Let's face it, the GOP has lost a huge amount of credibility because when they had power they spent like drunken sailors just as the democrats did. They got spanked in 2006 and 2008 and what is their response? More of the same that got them spanked and to have a man who has no credentials for leadership to take over as your leader. Why? Because he is black. Silly. For a long time Republicans have played the 'We are the democrats lite' game. Maybe if they actually run as and govern as conservatives they just might return to power. I'm not really sure I want that because God forbid they might actually elect another Bush.
I predicted Steele would have this weakness
BTW: Rush just said Cramer in on WHouse enemies list.
The hip-hop thing was bad, and it only went downhill from there.
And I won’t even mention his support for AWBII.
“Listen pal, Steele brought this on his own. His ridiculous coments about the GOP going after the “hip-hop” crowd was completely laughable. No doubt that Democrats snickered when they heard this crap. Then he goes on Hughley’s show, again just to show liberals that he’s “keeping it real” and wants them to think that the GOP is not a party of old boring white guys.”
“I don’t care what the Dems think about our infighting”
Yeah, what you said, :)!
Steele said they were friends! He and Rush talked and Steele apologized to Rush and that’s that this could be those inside the beltway moderates in our Party doing this!
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