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.
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“That’s right - I forgot; The entire reason the Republican Party has been directed to choose Steele is to completely gut the GOP and any real opposition to 0bama’s New World Order agendae.”
The purpose of Steele was to show that, hey!, Republicans can have a black leader too! The problem is that Steele was picked SOLELY because he’s black, not because he had anything approximating Obama’s much-praised “oratory gifts.” Inherent in picking someone for their skin color is the fact that you might be overlooking someone with qualifications somewhat more appropriate than, say, no real qualifications at all. In this case - almost anyone. But the choice has been made and can’t be unmade without a “See, I told you them Republicans can’t tolerate black folks!” Republicans were better off supporting merit, because all of the worse consequences of non-merit appointment is playing out right before our eyes.
Let take control of the Constitution party which in name states the right ideals for us. Also it is such a politically astute maneuver to cloak ourself in the name of the Constitution since no patriotic American can be against the Constitution and in effect disarms the opposition.
Dobbyman
Well they pick the candidates they want to fund, and endorse, so yes I do. The people they pick for the top spots have a tremendous affect on the down stream candidates. There are a few candidates rich enough to fund their own campaign, like Romney, but......
SCRAP Steele!
WOW!! Blacks in open disafreement. You’d never see that in the democRATic party.
This thread should have been removed 2 days ago from the ‘special section’. Does somebody at FR have an agenda to oust Steele?
I for one want to give him another chance but tell him in no uncertain terms to shape up or ship out. Isn’t that the American way?
1. Didn't speak out, as far as I know, on Specter, Collins and Snowe voting Yea on Stimulus.
2. Didn't respond to Hughley’s comparison of Republican Convention to Nazi Germany.
3. Would not respond to Laura Ingraham’s question of whether the RNC would support Specter in 2010
4. Has yet to affirm his 2nd Amendment position, his seemingly positive support of a revised AWB and gun regstration.
That's 4 strikes by my count...
Steele played in the hands of the democrats. The dems love to see republicans shooting their own, especially when the shooter is the republican chair and the republican getting shot at is Rush Limbaugh. Not very smart for the chairman of the republican party to do that. We cannot afford politcal mistakes like that.
Steele should join his Home Boy, BO, in the demo party.
Steele has no future in the GOP!
FUBO & FU Michael Steele & all the rest of U F-ing Rinos!
Talk about F-ing up a Wet Dream!
The Demos elect the worst POTUS ever & this rino dummie steele attacks Rush????????????????????????????????????????
disafreement=disaGREEment.
I wonder if she has called upon Obama to resign?
Clearly, he is not up to the task.
Michael Steele - the Joe Biden of the GOP!
She must have only joined the GOP very very recently...
I agree. I Steele apologized and this is just playing into the juvenile liberal spin machine, In fact, an immediate press release needs to go out to assure that our party is SOLID and STRONG with Michael Steele.
Nope, our party is certainly NOT divided. They just think so which is to their own demise. Idiots.
“Nope, our party is certainly NOT divided. They just think so which is to their own demise.”
U have got to be kidding!
The rino party is even more divided than the demo party.
You're right, but I believe the GOP got a "two-fer" here...
Steele "proved" to DUH SHEEPLE that they too are an "inclusive" party, including "people-of-color" - which is why they keep showcasing Jindal front-and-center as well.
That Steele just happens to be a globalist-RINO bent on destroying Conservatism is the Big Bonus.
"Republicans were better off supporting merit, because all of the worse consequences of non-merit appointment is playing out right before our eyes."
Yep, more style over substance and superficiality. It always works for the Dems...
If you or I give a bad answer in an ambush interview, it's no biggy.
As head of the RNC, we need someone who can handle any ambush question. Or if he can't, at least he should have the good grace to stay in the background and stick to building the organization back up. Though with his views on weapons bans and other leftist positions I don't see him being much of a success.
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