“Steele has somehow gotten it into his head that hard-core Republicans want to expand the party base to attract new voters, especially minorities.
As Steele told Time magazine when he was running for his job: “I’ll tell local chairmen, ‘If you want to be chairman under my leadership, don’t think this is a country club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese and talking amongst ourselves. If you don’t want to drill down and build coalitions to minority communities, then you have to give that seat to someone who does.’”
True to his word, after he was elected chairman, Steele told The Washington Times that he wanted an “off the hook” public relations offensive to reach out to “the young, Hispanic, black — a cross section” and apply party principles “to urban-suburban, hip-hop settings.”
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So what does he do? Abandons “party principles” and goes on Tavis Smiley and D.L. Hughley and instead of confronting them head-on and explaining WHY conservative principles are good for ALL Americans, he panders as flatfootedly as any country-club, whitebread.
Wow. Heavy. Way-cool.
As a country-club whitebread, I must admit that when pandering, I am very flatfooted. I'm sure it has something to do with my European ancestry or the like.