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73% of Republican voters believe their leaders in Washington are out of touch with the party base.

This should shake up the GOP leadership to the core.

The *TOP* GOP Leadership and their delegates, attempting to be appear Inclusive and Diverse to the MSM and the Left, alienates the Party Base while also wasting efforts and resources on groups of voters that are very, VERY unlikely to change their voting pattern.

Let me offer evidence to ONE of MANY examples of this with the RNC
(BTW, this is not about skin color so much as it's about demographic voting blocks)...

1) First, let's go back and look at the RNC Chairmanship Election in January:

RNC Chairman Vote

Source: CQPolitics, and Poll Pundit

Candidate	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6
Michael Steele	46	48*	51*	60*	79*	91*
Katon Dawson	28	29	34	62	69	77
Saul Anuzis	22	24	24	31	20	Withdrew
Ken Blackwell	20	19	15	15	Withdrew
Mike Duncan	52*	48*	44	Withdrew

* Candidate won that Round of voting

2) Now, let's look at the #1 and #2 candidates for the RNC Leadership spot:

Michael Stephen Steele is the first person of African American descent to serve in a state-wide office in Maryland, as the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007, where he chaired the Minority Business Enterprise taskforce and actively sought expanded affirmative action policies in the corporate world. He was the first Republican elected to the office.
During Katon Dawson's South Carolina GOP chairmanship, the South Carolina GOP has made progress with outreach to African-Americans and in promoting minorities to leadership positions, electing its first African-American member of the Republican National Committee from the South, and in 2008 the first black Republican State Representative since Reconstruction was elected. In August 2008, Dawson personally argued in an open letter to the Forest Lake Country Club, a whites-only country club of which he was a member, to include minority members (and later resigned his 12-year membership) stating "we have a responsibility to expeditiously make right this longstanding wrong." According to Dawson, he first learned of the restriction on the 80-year-old deed in 2008, and while there are no black members, African-Americans are frequent guests at the club and on the golf course.

3) Now, let's look at the CURRENT GOP.com website front page.

At the top are rotating are images that attempt to show Diversity within the party. A non-scientific count of these rotating images show 8 total Caucasian men and women, 5 Hispanic and 2 Asian faces:

The remaining 10 faces are shown here:

4) NOW, despite all of these RNC efforts to demonstrate Diversity and Inclusiveness toward African Americans, here is a recent Gallop Poll showing Job Approval numbers for Obama since Michael Steele took over as head of the RNC.

ONLY ONE GROUP shows a HIGHER Job Approval Rating for Obama, DESPITE that SAME demographic group having national Unemployment that rivals that of the Great Depression:

Draw your own conclusions.

However, it certainly appears that either: 1) the RNC's message is flawed (i.e., NOT espousing true Conservatism); or 2) certain voting blocks simply will NOT change their support for Obama and the Democrats — regardless of the skin color of the RNC Chairman and its Diverse agenda.

Tip #1 to the RNC: Appeasement doesn't work on the playground, the sports field, or the battlefield. It does NOT work in Politics either.

Tip #2 to the RNC: ALWAYS support your Base FIRST — ALWAYS.

What do you think about copying your posts to the Free Republic's Rino Free America Project thread? There is no way I can sumarize the vast amount of valuable information you have provided... And that's what the thread is for..spreading the truth, to help educate others so they understand RINOs and the history of RINOs. Woud you mind?

Funny that. Oddly enough, here is the fourth paragraph and on, of the letter I am sending to the RNC. I wrote this several days ago as part of a draft. Waiting on my stationery, (which has shipped, ) to arrive. Then it goes.:

The programs of LBJ’s Great Society have devolved into a sweeping failure which has seen the exponential expansion of an underclass that this country should never, never have allowed to happen. That the greatest majority of this underclass is black and Hispanic should burn the conscience of every true conservative, but instead of our “party” seeking to right this wrong, it has simply joined in the degradation and pandered to these “victim” groups as if they belong where the Democrats put them.

Instead of challenging Democrats within these groups, you have chosen to compete on their level by promising them even more of the same. Why should they come over to our
side when they can get “more” of the same right where they are, on the road to nowhere? Two wrongs don’t make a right.

That is not Conservatism. Conservatives did not cause the plight they are in, and because we did nothing to change it, the Democrats have a voting block that is almost 100% solid even though they are less well off now than they were before. How can you condone this?

Had you not condoned it, the stage could not have been set for Obama to be elected simply because he is black.