Posted on 03/14/2009 8:10:45 PM PDT by james.richardson
You skipped an opportunity to reply to what I said in favor of scoring a snarky insult. Good job goober.
Steele is a reflection of the Republican Party as a whole.
His statements are on record, and he is now damaged goods.
Some might think time will soften the damage perspective, therefore it isn’t really a problem, but there is no time for this as all the time is necessary to repair the Party. Democrats/opposition will not let go of this.
Steele needs to resign. The Party needs to replace him with someone whom can better represent him/herself in more favorable light, thus provide the necessary fresh start in the trek to repair the Party.
How, exactly, were the last RNC chair heads 'liberal?'
You and Steele make the same mistake - you both think that the chairman can set party policy independently or has some kind of independent power.
The role of the party chairman is to be a technician. The job of the REPUBLICAN VOTERS is to set policy through their participation in the platform writing and, more importantly, through their selection of nominees for office.
Exactamundo!
I'm not concerned what color the Chairman of the RNC is
as long as his principles are truly conservative.
Attempting to pander to left leaning, and blue blood Republicans is a proven losing strategy.
Whatcha been smoking pal? The reason the GOP lost is because they abandoned their conservative constituents. Wildmon is spot on and people better start listening. Steele indeed needs to go and I've said that since the first day he won his post. Newt Gingrich needs to be running the GOP right now.
I never wanted Steele as the party chair in the first place — but then, the Repubs left me a long time ago. Had they chosen Katon Dawson, who I know, they would have done far better in the long run. Dawson was SC Party Chair for years, knows the way it works, understands his role and stands on PRINCIPLE. Steele is a purely political creature at a time that Conservatives DEMAND a principled leader, and the nation desparately NEEDS one!
Steele SHOULD go — but he ain’t going. The party powers-that-be would NEVER cut a minority party chair because they fear the long lingering accusaation of “racism.” NOT gonna happen...
Uh, no. The base needs to be respected. They are part of the base.
The voters have to vote for the candidates who are on the ballot.
The RNC has a large voice in determining who those candidates are.
Steele seems to be in over his head.
If you can’t say something that will help the party, keep your mouth shut.
I wanted Ken Blackwell to win. Too bad.
Steele is the product of a systemic problem within the Republican party. The party as a whole lacks conservative principles.
Uggghhhhhhh.. NOT!
I for one liked Michael Steel but I’m afraid it’s looking here lately like he’s letting us all down.
If anyone took his place at the helm I would love to see it be Ken Blackwell.
Blackwell showed us here in Ohio that he’s a man of principal. He’s a fighter, not one bit afraid to take on the left, and he is dead set against abortion. Not only in words but in actions too.
Am I asking too much?
Who is this “we” you speak of?
Katon Dawson? Isn’t he the guy that got called out for belonging to an all-white country club? Lord, I’m not sure which sounds worse: “GOP nominates their own black guy!” or “GOP nominates blatantly racist white guy.” Is it really that hard to find a guy that’s actually conservative and doesn’t have have a dozen skeletons in his closet?!
Those of us who showed up and voted, rather than stay home because the candidate had flaws.
Snippets: On July 18, 1993, globalist Henry Kissinger said in the Los Angeles Times, concerning NAFTA: "What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system ... a first step toward a new world order."
Whatever they call themselves, in 1994 this particular branch of our feckless ruling establishment moved heaven and earth to get around the U.S. Constitution. It did so when it climbed over the dying body that is the power of Congress to make treaties, including treaties on issues of money and trade.
Nonetheless, the globalist duo of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, along with complicit Republicans and Democrats, rammed the World Trade Organization agreement through a lame duck Democratic Congress. Like NAFTA before it, the powers that be gave away the national store. They gave it away to an unaccountable, unelected supranational body, the World Trade Organization.
That same faithless establishment forgot to remember that only Congress has the power to make treaties, raise taxes, print money and more or less promote the best interests of the economic and monetary system of the United States. In effect, they rewrote the U.S. Constitution.
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