“Palin DID NOT HAVE TO COME FORWARD AND SUPPORT THAT RACIST STEELE.”
Steele was an early supporter of the Tea Parties and an outsider within the crusty GOP Establishment. This is why Palin supports him, not because she endorses his every utterance or action.
Palin:
“I support Michael Steele.... I think he’s doing a great job. Michael Steele is an outsider. The machine, I think, is tough to penetrate... I think it’s been good to have an independent outsider trying to create some change in the Republican Party.”
Somebody needs to shake up the ossified GOP superstructure. I don’t know if Steele is the one, but I don’t want Mitt Romney or Ed Gillespie or one of hte Bushies selecting the Chairman and trying to rig the process in 2012. they have made a complete mess of the RNC since 2000 and even before.
Of course she thinks he is doing a great job. He’s a RINO like Mccain.
http://24ahead.com/rncs-michael-steele-supports-amnesty-meeting-far-left-mexico
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/08/palin-i-think-steeles-doing-a-great-job/
“Somebody needs to shake up the ossified GOP superstructure. I don’t know if Steele is the one, but I don’t want Mitt Romney or Ed Gillespie or one of hte Bushies selecting the Chairman and trying to rig the process in 2012. they have made a complete mess of the RNC since 2000 and even before.”
IMHO, Steele is not ‘the one.’ There is no ‘the one.’ What will shake up the ‘ossified GOP superstructure’ as you aptly phrase it, will be the decentralized power and influence of the Tea Party movement itself. It is raising money for Conservatives all over this nation - like Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Express and Jim DeMint are successfully doing and bypassing the idiots in the NRSC and the NRCC when they support people Scozzafava, et al, and Crist (that little traitor).
When the RNC, NRSC and NRCC no longer have the ability to influence the party’s candidates in key races - we will successfully displace the ossified structure we all destest.
We must press on to do so and it will only be a bonus if the NRC chairman or anyone else in those party positions would at some point (perhaps replaced by Tea Partiers) help us out in the battle for this nation.