Posted on 06/22/2009 6:58:41 PM PDT by kellynla
Republican state party leaders are rebelling against new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele for failing to dub President Obama and the Democrats as "socialists." And the rebels insist that the label matters.
Even though Mr. Steele has called his Democratic adversaries "collectivists," at least 16 state leaders say the term lacks the pejorative punch needed to sway public opinion and want all 168 members of the Republican National Committee to debate and vote on it.It is the first time in memory that a sitting national leader of the Republican Party has faced a public challenge over his ideological leadership by conservative members of his own national committee.
Critics say it is also a sign of Mr. Steele's rocky start as RNC chairman and his continuing struggle to assert control of the party's message since his election in January.
"The threat to our country from the Obama administration cannot be underestimated," Indiana RNC member James Bopp Jr. wrote Wednesday in an e-mail to the full RNC membership. "They are proceeding pell-mell to nationalize major industries, to exponentially increase the size, power and intrusiveness of the federal government, to undermine free enterprise and free markets, to raise taxes to a confiscatory level."
Mr. Bopp, a constitutional law lawyer and hero to conservatives for arguing a Supreme Court challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, said he had presented Mr. Steele with a petition bearing the signatures of RNC members from 16 states - the number needed under RNC rules to convene an extraordinary meeting of the full committee next month.
Mr. Steele has twice rejected requests by Mr. Bopp, who leads two conservative caucuses within the RNC, to call the special meeting.
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Steele is still searching for his manhood, don’t know if he can handle telling America the truth about the Fuhrer.
Maybe another way to put, a bit blunter: “Don’t just vote ‘present’ Mr. Steele; instead make a strong statement and back it up with the facts.” -Cindy
correct put it...
How about National Socialist (NAZI)?
These state party leaders are better off renouncing their membership with the Republicrat party and join a hard line Conservative movement to stop the socialists.
He won’t do it. He’s afraid of being labeled an “Uncle Tom”.
Obama is worse than that.
Obama is not a socialist,he’s a COMMUNIST!Please apply corrections if I am incorrect via Karl Marx.
These other members of the RNC are also the ones to watch come 2010. How many of them were in with the earmarks on that monstrous spending bill...actually both spending bills. Now they want to look like they’re doing the right thing? HNNNNN! TOO LATE!
Yes, label the a$$-O a socialist pig for all I care, but their a$$es are still getting voted out in 2010...all those who voted for those bills to pass, and any of those who vote for this deathcare are on their way out!
Amen to that! This cannot be overstated -- what's happening is NOT socialism - ITS FASCISM!
>>> National Socialist (NAZI)?
>ITS FASCISM!
All we need now is to put church leaders and newspapers on the state payroll and we’ll be doing exactly what the National Socialists did under Goebbels.
If it walks like a socialist, and talks like socialist, and acts like a socialist, there is a very strong likelihood that it is socialist!
obama is the goofer boy for the bankers just like bush was and clinton before him and bush senior was.Reagan was the only one to stop this BS.
Steele thinks too much like a Marylander to be effective as GOP chief.
Why go half way, call him the communist that he is!
Steele is not going to say anything about his bro Zero.
Wrong man for the job.
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