Two camps are battling for the Republican Party. One camp believes in a big tent with a large opening where principles mean nothing, just as long as they vote with the party. The other camp holds to the founding principles of limited government and Constitutional conservatism. The GOP has been plagued by big government politicians that are more interested in the power of the party than the power of the people, and Michael Steele was inserted as the RNC chairman to lead the Republican Party back to some semblance of sanity, and a clearly defined position on the issues. He has done neither.
In Steele's book, "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," Michael proclaims that the Republicans will not win a majority in the House in 2010, even though, especially after Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts, all signs are pointing to a flurry of wins by the GOP in the next election. Congressional Republicans called Steele out, and the battle began.
As Obama's popularity is in a rapid downward spiral, Michael Steele acts as if he believes the idiocy of the Left, and their proclamation that conservatism is dead. Then, when challenged, he responded on a radio interview with ABC News: "Get a life! If you don't want me in the job, fire me. But until then, shut up. Get with the program."
What program? Your big tent of progressive Republicanism?
But Michael Steele wasn't finished. He later stated, regarding him being the first black RNC chairman, that Republicans are "scared of black folks." He then poetically accused Democrats of "flipping the bird" to the American public on health care, while also continually criticizing fellow Republicans.
Fact is, Steele sometimes sounds conservative, and sometimes sounds like a big-tent Republican. He tries to be both, and as Obama has learned the hard way, you can't make everyone happy, and play both sides of the fiddle in the attempt to do so. Either you want the Republican Party to continue its destructive path towards progressivism, or you realize we must kick out the entrenched douche bags, and turn the party back in the direction of conservatism, and the Party of Reagan.
If the Republican Party does not send a clear message of conservatism, then Steele is right about November, and the Republican Party will miss a golden opportunity. Fact is, if the RINOs would just step aside, they'd find that there are a thousand conservative candidates ready to win, and take charge, just as has Scott Brown.
Maybe that is why Michael Steele has been so critical of his fellow Republicans. He's afraid that the opening to his big tent will narrow, and the Republicans will become all about conservatism, the Constitution, and Americans as a whole, rather than progressivism-light and trying to cater to segregated groups.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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