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I knew Steele would be no good as a fundraiser. He was a bust at same in a lesser position. It was his biggest knock. The RNC keeps sending me fundraising mailers, despite my asking them not to. They’re always some negative knock on the other side, nothing positive about what we want to accomplish. The Left is not always wrong. They say we use fear tactics. That’s what these fundraisers do.

The reason I don’t donate is that it all seems geared towards Party power. I don’t give a damn about Party power. I embrace principles. If a Party embtaces those principles, I embrace that Party. If the Party walks away from those principles, it walks away from me, too.

Steele seems to me to be just another power apparatchik. These guys are the old fossils who live by the old paradigm of the powerful Dinosaur Media. They play the game the same old way, with maneuvers not based on ethics and principles first. They are playing the power game, with rules defined by the other side. As long as we play their game their way, we’ll continue to lose… and will lose it all in the end.

That said, I think Steele is starting to adapt a bit. A previous comment is right: he is working hard. It’s just not all that effective, because he is still using the old paradigm. Progress, however, IS being made… albeit slowly.

As for purity, I believe in a Big Tent, as long as the “moderates” are on board with the most important principles: Bill of Rights; small government; Declaration of Independence; Preamble to the Constitution; and the Constitution itself as a non-flexible thing. The social leg is optional, even though I consider it very important. I recognize it is offputting to many who have been forcefed the negative tropes about it. It will take time to reverse that. If we can just get these other things going first, then the “optional” things will, eventually, follow.

The moderates are nothing without the base, but we cannot win much without them. So, we need a mutually-beneficial arrangement… with preconditions, natch.