RINO idiots that “respect” the other party are worse than useless. It’s time for a fighter to step into Steele’s shoes.
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Posted on 07/05/2010 7:42:47 AM PDT by Neoavatara
I think I have been more than fair to Michael Steele.
I marginally supported him for the leadership position of the Republican National Committee (although I supported fellow Ohioan Ken Blackwell initially).
I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for the last year and a half, after Steele has made verbal gaffe after gaffe, not to mention leadership mistakes.
But I think the time to draw a line in the sand is now.
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John Bolton would be the perfect replacement.
If they don’t replace Steele with someone that’s willing to call a communist a communist, then what’s the point? We need a GOP that is willing to stand up in front of whiteboards and PowerPoints and explain to the deliberately uneducated American voter exactly what a Marxist is and the effects of transforming an economy to Marxism.
Conservatism requires knowledge and intelligence. Half of the electorate have neither, so we cannot win against an enemy that controls the press and offers the masses free stuff.
RINO idiots that “respect” the other party are worse than useless. It’s time for a fighter to step into Steele’s shoes.
Let’s face facts. It takes a pretty shrewd guy to be chairman of the republican party. After all, the beliefs and agenda of republican “higher ups”—the loafer wearing, Country Club, DC party-going super RINOs—bear no resemblance whatever to the beliefs and agenda of the actual Americans who make up the party base.
Bolton would tell it like it is. Steele is useless. I refuse to donate to the RNC because of RINO’s and gutless weasels like Steele. I donate to local candidates only right now. The RNC needs a real leader, and it isn’t Steele.
LLS
Yes, but too bad the “base” won’t come to the polls in primaries in sufficient numbers to change much. Hence we will get more pain from McPain.
Actually, I’m sick of this subject. Democrats make terrible gaffes all the time and who cares (Biden).
Republicans, even if they are black, have to go.
I’m going to give Steele some slack on this one because Obama did elevate this war but only for political reasons, and now that its elevated, he hasn’t been giving his military the proper tools. He’s right that this was Obama’s war in that he made it a political issue against the Iraq war.
Lets get back to critizing Obama and the Dems and not continue to make Steele the front page issue.
“I was the FIRST to warn of steele here on FR, long before he was selected. I say this because I was sorely abused here for saying it. He subbed for bill bennett and it was clear he is an abortion loving, reparation promoting, big government, black activist, dim liberal.”
We all know just why Mr. Steele was chosen for the position that he occupies.
Who are the durned fools who really believe that ethnic minorities are going to be lured into voting Republican merely because someone who “looks like them” is installed into a visible position?
Did Clarence Thomas bring more blacks into the Republican party? Or at least awaken more blacks to the notion that conservative principles as expressed by his role model could be worth emulating?
In the new, “divided America”, it seems that more and more, how folks vote can largely be predicted by their ethnicity. Not EVERYone, of course, but alMOST everyone. Hence, the push for Republicans to “woo the Hispanic vote”, in the hopeless hope that they could ever win by the weight of such a vote. Hence, the selection of Mr. Steele to “encourage black voters to look at Republicans”. We saw how carefully they “looked” in the 2008 election.
The Republic Party clings to the egalitarian fantasy that all the newcomers to America are, or can be made to be, just like the American-Euros who have always constituted their base (and who made the country what it is, or at least was until the 1960’s). This fantasy bodes as much ill for America, as does a similar one held (or at least once held) by Europeans that Muslims would eventually integrate into their own respective societies and become “like them”. How’s that working out?
Even here on FR, anyone who dares suggest that the dream of “Amerian egalitarianism” is ultimately unworkable (as I am doing in this post) may get the rotten tomatoes of opprobrium tossed at him.
One of the wisest comments regarding conservatism I ever saw was made years ago somewhere on the old America Online message boards by someone who called himself “LizardNC”. Here’s what he said:
“Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be.”
This cuts to the core of how conservatism must view the world. That sometimes, problems don’t have solutions; questions don’t always have “acceptable” answers; that some truths are so unpleasant that we turn away.
And thus, even in the face of error, turn away from those unpleasant realities, and cling to old, pleasing fantasies that have no bearing in the real world. For — like LizardNC says, reality has little to do with what we believe and much to do with what it simply is.
Here on Independence Day, we look at Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration, and embrace all his precepts as if all were based on reality, rather than idealism. But the unpleasant reality (which many even here have yet to face) is that some of Jefferson’s most quoted words were more idealistic longings and dreams of his day, rather than based on the greater, real world.
Like you, I _wish_ such dreams could be true.
But, as a conservative, I must recognize reality for what it is, not what I _wish_ that it might be.
When will the Republican Party wake up and see as much?
BOTH Bolton and the GOP leadership support Obama’s War. Their world policing agenda has helped to bankrupt us and lead the GOP to electoral, time and again. Steele was right.
RINO idiots that “respect” the other party are worse than useless. It’s time for a fighter to step into Steele’s shoes.
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Didn't it come down to Steele vs. Blackwell?
I was for Blackwell.
They had better wake up before November.
LLS
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