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>>>>>I'd argue that Steele is being smart here. Attracting voters to the Republican Party is not, I will repeat that, NOT, the same as appeasing them or adopting their views as official Republican policy.

You can't be serious.

"I don 't know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, "We must broaden the base of our party" -- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents."
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1975

Deja vu all over again.

114 posted on 02/02/2009 9:59:51 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")

RR was warning against adopting liberal policy or their agenda. I am not, and I don't think Steele is, advocating we explore removing the pro-life/pro-family planks of the Party.
RR had gay friends and I'd say friends who were pro-abort. This didn't affect his opinion of either as it regarded his own, or his Party's, policy.