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.
Yes, absolutely. Not that the Dems are much alive either. There are two possibilities. One, a true leader emerges; it is not unreasonable to say that at the moment Rush appears to be such leader. Note that unlike Newt Gingrich in 1994, Rush is not going to suffer an identity crisis upon discovering that the press and the Left are mean to him. But it could be someone we haven't noticed yet. Such leader is likely to repeat the upset of 1994; let's hope the second time around the opportunity is not going to get squandered.
The alternative is that as the Democrats discredit themselves by being unable to stop the emerging depression, there is no unified force coming from the right. In which case we have some form of a totalitarian regime emerging.