Comments on: Are Michael Steele’s Days at the RNC Numbered?

By: Joe Kavanagh

Joe Kavanagh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:45:48 +0000

I have news for alot of you, Abortion at this point is legal and will continue to be far into the future. I believe that it is a non issue at this point and should be retired until the future presents a chance to change the law. The republican party for too long has made this the big issue. I am leaving the party and going with the libertarians. good luck to you all.

By: one of my own

one of my own — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:47:19 +0000

Michael Michael Bo Bichael Banana Fana fo Fichael me my mo Michael . . . maybe you guys should try that to make the party more cool and boss . . . maybe by 2012 you can shoot for “gnarly, dude.”

Did you know that when Republicans go down the drain in Australia they go the opposite direction? Now THAT’S off the hook.

By: Mike V

Mike V — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:40:19 +0000

It is obvious that Mr. Steele has got to go. We lost this last election because McCain couldn’t hold the base of the party together. We saw the democrats move in to formerly solid red states because large blocks of conservatives stayed home.

After failing with Gore and Kerry the DNC moved way left… promoted Pelosi and Reid into leadership positions and made a radical marxist their candidate.

The GOP became a watered-down party, we need to move far right and unite the base behind solid leadership who can rebuild the bridge between fiscal, social, and federalist republicans. Only with our big 3 united will we go back to winning elections. 2 out of 3 won’t cut it.

By: Cantormania

Cantormania — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:35:10 +0000

Conservatives need to support the Republican Party even as they (we) disagree with it. It’s fine to object to something Steele does or disagree with something he says – but do so in a supportive way so long as he is in his position as Chairman of the RNC.

He is not “the voice” of the party; but he is the leader of the party apparatus. Identify objections and be honest about them, but don’t give him the Kos treatment. Conservatives should rise about that kind of behavior.

Reagan always looked at the big picture, remained positive even when he was critical, and NEVER took down his fellow Republicans.

Both the purists on the wing and the turncoats in the press (Frum, Christopher Buckley, et al) are more damaging to electoral success than actual Democrats.

Let us put the best construction on everything anyone on the right does, and focus our critiques on the disastorous policies and practices of the Obama Democrats.

By: Wally Lind

Wally Lind — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:04:10 +0000

Not pure enough? Is there anyone who is loyal to the party anymore? I wonder!

By: michael Reynolds

michael Reynolds — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:15:54 +0000

So, you’re saying Steele is corrupt, buffoonish and spineless, but he’s NOT a perfect representative of the GOP? I don’t get it.

By: two cents

two cents — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:36:02 +0000

I said at the time that Steele should have been judged by the performance of his GOPAC candidates. What percentage of them won seats? Did they endorse him for RNC chair? This was never really talked about even though it should have been the most obvious measurement of his ability to recruit, train, and fund quality candidates. Instead, we learned that he was an avid Twitterer and liked to say “baby” a lot.

Well guess what? We’re stuck with him now. For starters, it would be insanely destructive for the Republican Party to forcibly remove their first and only African-American party chairman, and political suicide to replace him with Katon Dawson. And besides, even if Steele is a lame chairman he still may be the best we’ve got.

We should give him a chance to get on his feet and if he’s a total disaster next year we can dump him, but it needs to be shown that he can’t do the job. Right now he hasn’t had a chance to succeed or fail.

It should also be noted that virtually all Steele criticism is being leaked to lefty blogs from anonymous GOP officials. Or so they claim. Just sayin’.

By: edouard

edouard — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:07:42 +0000

Another Republican Michael Steele wrote a book on O’bama (yes he is Irish too) and explicitely stated that as a bound man, “He can’t win” but since Obama did win, it is obvious that Michael Steele’s sojourn is coming up like “He WILL be replaced” or will enrage the ‘pure” Republican base and be replaced or forced to conform to Limbaugh’s version of the Republican party.
SO much for cannibalism and the RepublNazi party.

May they propser!

By: narciso

narciso — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:01:50 +0000

All right, seriously this is possibly the most inane column you’ve written yet. So Steele does some of those things, you say we should do, and
he gets his hat handed to him. We’re trusting a media report out of Baltimore. Let’s see what he does first. On another point, the GOP coopted
the Southern Democrats, because the new Democrats threw out all their cultural values; family,country, god. You’re a Nut alright, but in no way right wing

Chloe, are you serious, you really think Sarah is not prolife, after everything she’s done, after even what her daughter has gone through.
She doesn’t like to do things by legislation,
but by persuasion. Considering I haven’t seen
the last path get us anywhere, let’s try the other way, If she truly was pro-choice, she would have avoided half the garbage thrown at
her. She’s not opposed to contraception in principle, despite what has been said about her.

By: Burkean

Burkean — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:37:28 +0000

Steele has embarrassed the party by naively stumbling into one trap after another laid for him by the MSM, aka Propaganda Wing of the Socialist Democrats. He needs to remember the duties set out in his job description as RNC Chair and quit making ideological pronouncements that he is too weak to defend.