Michael Steele. Gutsy, Focused and a Brilliant Tactician...

http://streetlevel.blogtownhall.com ^ | 3/16/09 | Darvin Dowdy

[Darvin Dowdy]

We hear a lot these days about the blunders and failings of Chairman Michael Steele. Many think that Chairman Steele has been making too many public mistakes and is simply not up to the job. In my humble opinion, they are totally and absolutely wrong. Dead wrong. Steele knows exactly what he’s doing. You see, Steele is obviously using a classic military tactic. A probing action to draw out the enemy (or in this case the opposition “us” – Movement Conservatives) for the purpose of judging their strengths/weaknesses. Steele is gutsy and bold. He aggressively thrusts forward with his “Extreme Moderate” agenda (LINK). And then he retreats. Classic! Just as with the Limbaugh encounter, forward - critical/name-calling one day and then the next day retreating /apologizing. Very well executed. This tactic requires a rapid retreat or the individual(s) performing the probe will most like become a casualty. Steele has come fairly close to that, yet he survives.

But you see an “extreme moderate” like Steele, and many others within the GOP Hierarchy believe radically in their particular brand of “moderation”. These haughty moderates are so enamored with themselves for being able to move back and forth across the aisle compromising, communicating and working well with those on the far left, the center and, occasionally, even the right. Like a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower. Yes, it is almost sexual. That is how strong it is. Self adoration. Infatuated and totally in love with self. You can see it when they operate. Restraint and genteel rhetoric. Fake humility. Dulcet tones. No real passion because, in their effort to be all things to all people they are, in fact – no where! Certainly they’ll occasionally self-destruct when they get caught in their own trap of trying to play both sides toward the center.

So, what we have here is Steele “and others” making a deliberate and determined effort to steer the entire political process of the GOP (and the Nation) back toward the left. Driving toward the center and most likely beyond! And the probing actions? Well, these Extreme Moderates are trying to determine what they can get away with. Steele is bravely taking “the point” but do not think he is alone in this endeavor. You can be certain that he has the blessings of many within the GOP Hierarchy. I totally expect John McCain to jump to his defense and will be surprised if he doesn’t. This is, I believe, a planned, organized and choreographed offensive. It’s a long term plan designed to eventually wear down the opposition. He and his skirmish line are advancing under fire.

And what about this “skirmish line”? Who are some of the combatants? The participants? Well this is actually a new movement, in its infancy. I’m calling it the Movement of Extreme Moderates (MEM). An oxymoron of sorts, I suppose. I mean, there have always been moderates but they’ve not been so combative. David Frum is, in my view, an MEM leader and he’s already proclaiming victory. Saying they are the “New Majority” . In his view, his brand of conservatism (which is not conservatism) is the only formula that can win.

And we have “new recruit”. Valley girl, Meghan McCain. Already going on the offensive against anyone that she considers too extreme. Making Daddy proud. Riding her high horse, she even slammed her fellow MEM member Steele! : ( link2 ). That’s normal. Remember all MEM members revere their own particular brand of moderation above all. They’re in deep, rapturous love with their own opinions. A weakness that can be exploited by Movement Conservatives, by the way.

So we have, in my view, this MEM forming up without its members even being aware of the fact, apparently. A weak and fragmented cabal fomenting a mini-revolution within the GOP. Vying for control - and on the attack. Their one big advantage? The confused, clueless 168 members of the RNC made a boneheaded move and placed an MEM member in its “Chair” at the head of the table. Or maybe many of these “168” are, in fact, Extreme Moderates, too?

Now what will Movement Conservatives do? Are they so demoralized and defeated that they’ll sit on their hands and watch 30 years of hard work evaporate? Will they stand idly by while this pip-squeak, up-start of a movement pushes their way in taking “more” control of the Republican Party than it already has? Diluting the Republican message down into some lukewarm pablum that right-thinking Middle America will, once again, spew out of their mouth come next election day?

Michael Steele and his hip-hop strategy ; it’s all about pandering. The same destructive pandering tactics of Bush43 and Karl Rove. This is what has placed the Conservative Movement in the mess it is now in. And Steele and his ilk want to move more in that groveling, pandering, doormat of a direction?? By pandering to specific groups, the “panderer” only draws the ire and disrespect from those in other groups who are not being pandered to.

Question is, do we Conservatives have the will to stop this insanity and get this Nation moving rightward again? The direction that the majority of Americans want our nation traveling. Do we have the stomach to aggressively go after people in our own political party that have now, for what ever reason, strayed away from the Conservative Movement and are drifting (or in some cases running) leftward? Darvin Dowdy

[rjsimmon]

“extreme moderate”

Jumbo Shrimp?

President Obama?

Oxymoron?

[SolidWood]

You are overestimating Steele.

He is a "moderate" (call it RINO or whatever you want) and quite obviously tried to steer the GOP further to the "center" (speak left). Therefore he has to be nice and "bipartisan" and politcally correct. But Conservatives would have none of it, and Steele, underestimating the power of Limbaugh and the Conservative movement, had to backtrack.

I don't see a deliberate brilliant effort by Steele. He thought he could get away with "leftening" the GOP, but caught hell for doing so.

David Frum is merely a gnat, wh0ring up to the liberal media on the expense of Conservatives. He is a smaller than life-size nuissance taken seriously by the half dozen people reading Newsweak.

Ditto for Meghan McCain. She is an airhead that wants to be seen on TeeVee. Nothing more. They fancy themselves to be part of a "new moderate" movement, but they are not. They are being used as toys by the left, and rejected by the right.

[Paladin2]

"do we Conservatives have the will to stop this insanity and get this Nation moving rightward again?"

I don't know about rightward, but correctward. The GOP is toast until they walk the walk for two Congressional election cycles.

[cripplecreek]

Just LOL

[webschooner]

flogging your own blog on FR ... tacky ... and for a RINO no less ...

[ExSoldier]

Steele knows exactly what he’s doing. A probing action..... He aggressively thrusts forward and then he retreats.

In and out... Yup, I've been feeling his presence and like most rape victims, I feel violated by a RINO.

[pnh102]

Michael Steele. Gutsy, Focused and a Brilliant Tactician...

... for the Democrat party.

[Pistolshot]

Steele is too much compromise, not enough conservative, and willing to be a 'centrist' to get some wins. He will NOT lead the GOP back to fiscal and social conservatism, but more to the DHIM-LITE model.

No thanks. He will sacrifice the unborn, guns, and who knows what else to look good.

The real conservatives here know what he is, and what we DON'T need.

[Man50D]

But you see an “extreme moderate” like Steele, and many others within the GOP Hierarchy believe radically in their particular brand of “moderation”.

Moderate is a term for someone who wants to play both ends against the middle by pretending to be Conservative. Steele is a loser for Conservatives.

[Mountain Mary]

I agree, Solidwood. Steele has not blundered as part of a grand plan to bring out the lib rage. But his shaky start might be a consequence that will benefit our side, just as the Rush fiasco has doubled his listenership and strengthened the Conservative movement.
Meghan McCain showed her liberal leanings all during the campaign. Now she is wanting her fifteen minutes of fame. She is an embarrassment: and if her father has any influence, he should oonfine her to blogging with her liberal twenty something friends.
Her latest is that she is whining about Laura Ingraham calling her fat. Give me a break. Did W complain about the vitriol from the left that was being spewed about him during his entire Presidency? Miss McCain might take a lesson from him on how to turn the other cheek and handle criticism with grace.

[Tuketu]

As you stated, Steele draws the ire and disrespect from those in other groups who are not being pandered to, us / we Conservatives. How to stop his / their folderol?

First, fire up Newt, he can turn the GOP or cause the GOP to realize they are not on the path to victory.

As long as Steele is Pro Choice, that ends my contributions to the GOP. No money, no victory, no GOP and to them their survival is paramount.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

As long as Steele is Pro Choice, that ends my contributions to the GOP. No money, no victory, no GOP and to them their survival is paramount.

I agree, it's time we start giving to individual candidates, not the party apparatus itself. WE need to decide where our political contributions get spent, not some RINOs on the board of the NRSC or RNC.

[Eagle Eye]

This is all sarcasm, right?

[Liz]

MEMO TO STEELE FROM REPUBLICAN PARTY DONORS

1. Our liberty is from God, not Government.
2. Our sovereignty is in our souls, not the soil.
3. Our security is through strength, not surrender.
4. Our prosperity is from the private sector, not the public sector.
5. Our truths are self-evident, not relative.

SOURCE Congressman Thad McCotter’s five GOP fundamental principles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204561/posts

If Steele still doesn’t “get it” he should “get out” of our party.

[Liz]

Steele has been leashed-up by the pukeneos. They tell him what to do and what to say. Sunday on MTP, pukeneo David Frum gave Steele his marching orders----"weaken the party's pro-life principles........or else."

The pukeneos have a lot at stake---they get $paid handsomely to $squat in the Repub Party......pocketing $big bonuses to religiously cleanse the party of so/cons the pukes despise.

The genius pukeneos who (cough) "won" all those Republican elections know what the Nation needs-----another Democrat Party (/sarc).

NEOS IMPROVE OBAMA'S SEX LIFE Obaman's sex life is about to improve greatly---as Frum and the RINO-pukeneos line up for a turn under Obama's desk.

Puke Billy Kristol blows whichever way the Beltway Winds are blowing. Kristol went from Moynihan's staff to Quayle's, from The Weekly Standard to the NYT, from Bush to Giuliani to McCain. And the crumbum is still as secretive as ever....spewing blue-blood beltway Republicanism, and smirkingly kicking conservatives to the curb.

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And now------The Winner of the 2008 Best Election Night Performance Award in the category of:
"Neos Know Nothing About this Republican Disaster."

Billy Kristol (McC campaign mastermind)

"Thank you very much. But I could not have done it without the help of all the
punkeos--David Frum, Michael Gerson, David Brooks, Richard Perle.....and
my Dearest Daddy."

"Sniffle---my Dearest Daddy (who was Giuliani's foreign policy advisor) said,
"The historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism is.....to convert the
Republican Party and American conservatism in general, against their
respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to
governing a modern democracy."

"Sob."

"I especially want to thank punkneo Douglas Feith for faking documents on his
home computer so we punkneos could dupe the president."

"Without Doug we would not have been able to transfer trillions of US dollars
into the Mideast, into the pockets of war profiteers, which enabled Richard Perle
to startup an oil business in Iraq with his cut."

Kristol smirked: "Making Iraq safe for Perle's oil business with US tax dollars was truly a noble punkneo effort."

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COMMENTS The 2008 political entrail readings showed the crucial conservative base stayed home. Too bad the pukes "forget" to tell McC that would be one outcome of the punkneo-RINO bi-partisanship. Be aware that many senior neocons are rank opportunists who squatted in the Repub Party for their selfish stealth purposes-----they are actually former Trotskyites that flew the coop when Stalin executed their hero.

AS FREEPER TADSLOS COGENTLY POSTED: "People forget that candy-ass Kristol, and his crony, metro-sexual Brooks are the original makeover artists for McCain post-2000. They are McC's original groomers and media switch operators.....obsessed with religious cleansing of the party. Kristol at his most smirkiest---urging McCain to fire his 2008 staff, to start all over at the 11th hour, as McC's numbers tanked. Shows how how ill-conceived, advised, equipped and poorly managed McC's campaign was. But then, what else to expect from a Republican candidate made up of neopunks Kristol and Brooks." Kristol championed McCain early on calculatingly "supporting" Palin only to gauge the political winds.

Watching Kristol smirking and squirming in his Fox seat election night as McC lost was a consolation prize to this abortion of a losing 2008 election cycle.

[Leisler]

"Do we have the stomach to aggressively go after people in our own political party that have now, for what ever reason, strayed away from the Conservative Movement and are drifting (or in some cases running) leftward? "

Liberal..er 'moderate or 'Big Tent'' Republicans are not drifting, or running away. They are where they always are. Now and again they show themselves a little better. Teddy Roosevelt. Eastern Elitists Big Government. Coolidge. Failed Small Government. Hoover. Big Government. Social Engineer. Eisenhower. Big Government. Generalist. Nixon. Big Government. Ford. Big Government. Reagan. Small Government, but contained by GOP/RNC staff. HW Bush. Big Government. Classic liberal elitist. GW Bush. Big Government. Romney. Liberal family, liberal Governor, Mormon smothering quilt Big Government. McCain. Big Teddy Roosevelt(done badly) energetic Big Government. Huck. The Huey Long Big Government. The Democrats are big government because Marxist theory teaches them that the victims, the little people need leadership and must have it whether they want it or not. The Republicans are big government because, fundamentally, they believe the public is their little children and must be guided by Momma/Papa with good manners and third generation trust funds. Both are fundamentally un democratic, by nature and philosophy.

[jabonz08]

I am so done with Steele and the GOP. That RINO packed ilk, along with Ms. McCain can all pound salt. Moderates = Losers. They can all go to hell.

[arfan]

Michael Steele = No Donations