Joan of Argghh on November 14, 2008 at 11:58 AM

I really dislike BS like this. Why does anyone care what people think or polls say about the leader of the RNC? I don’t pick my leaders based on how outsiders perceive them. I pick leaders because they are the best qualified, alpha male/female, well-spoken, and clear on ideology or conservative ideas as you can get from the names on the list. I’m going to throw a great politically and tactically well versed leader over board because of what people might say about the color of his skin? Are you fraking kidding me? That’s what they do on the other side of the aisle, not here lady!

Micheal Steele stepped up to the plate and offered himself up for service to your Party. HE’S ASKING FOR THE JOB!!! To ignore him and this fact plus his request to simply have you take a look at him and what he has to offer is to be truly stupid and ungrateful for what you have and grasping at straws for something you don’t have, which I like to refer to as a BACKBONE!

bUT IF ALL HE DOES IS SMILE….GET OFF THE STAND AND LET SOMEONE WHO WILL GO ON OFFENSE TAKE THE POSITION.

More and more people will leave those regions and their power in the US House of Reps will diminish. Look for a dramatic change in numbers after the next census.

Abortion as a litmus test? Anybody, yes, anybody who votes for a person who believes in infanticide, like Obama does,
ought to burn in hell.

FYI, abortion is just ONE issue on the conservative platform. I wonder who among all these black conservative Protestants you would support…FYI: none of them would come close to Michael Steele.
I’m not religious but I have no problem with Catholics, why do you reject them? How about Mormons? Do you hate Romney too?

Apparently, they weren’t too concerned about the equivocations.

As pro-life organizations go, the NRLC usually isn’t.

We need someone who is going to articulate forcefully the natural law argument against abortion if we’re going to have any chance of reuniting those who support limited government and those who believe government should ban abortion.

Some of you wouldn’t be happy unless abortion is totally banned. That’s not going to happen. Ever. Let’s just face up to reality instead of pandering the religious nutjobs.

For me, it’s global warming. That is the credibility litmus test. ***
keep the change on November 14, 2008 at 9:40 AM

Has the science on climate change been cooked by politically-motivated scientists? Probably. But standing around screaming “global warming is a fraud!!!” isn’t going to solve that problem. The “scientific community” will just emerge and say “you’re wrong” and the media will pile on. There is a time and a place to fight the junk science on “global warming,” and that time and place is NOT during an election year.

The more pressing battleground is over what to DO about global warming. The Democrats’ solution to climate change is to reduce the amount of energy produced and used in America. It’s Marxist and anti-growth. Think about what’s been said in the campaign: Bankrupt the coal industry. Stand in the way of energy generation (nuclear, oil drilling, refineries). Regulate your thermostats. Impose confiscatory taxes on gas and electricity. Make you take the bus to work. Impose huge regulation on businesses.

The Republicans don’t think that way — and, if you notice, McCain won the debate on energy this year hands down. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Tell people “I want to reduce global warming by building safe nuclear power plants and help auto manufacturers develop an SUV that gets 35 highway mpg, not by making you take the bus and freeze in your houses this winter,” and you’ll get a much more positive response than saying “they’re all lying to you about global warming!”

Pawlenty is right: Republicans are rapidly becoming a regional party, and we can’t afford to have that happen. We desperately need:

um … all parties seem to be regional … look at the dems … the northeast, northwest, california and urban areas

the GOP … the south, mountain west and the midwest

you start in the regions and then you pick off enough states to win … just like the dems did .. they had their “regions” and picked off some GOP states to win

that is how it goes every single time and sometimes you have a landslide

the Republicans are never ever going to win in the cities, ever … cities are run by democrats and contain large amounts of people who live off of the government, no REAL GOP message will get through to them

1. Bold, innovative, free-market approaches to “kitchen table issues” including jobs, the deficit, health care, education, and the environment.

2. A media strategy that works. Bush and McCain’s strategy was to hide from the MSM — a strategy that spectacularly failed for both. The GOP needs to learn how to both engage the MSM in a way to neutralize their bias and to use new media, talk radio, and Fox more effectively to get the message out.

3. Better outreach to Hispanic and young voters. If Hispanics become a reliable Democratic supermajority like blacks and Jews, and/or if young voters become reliably Democratic and liberal, the GOP will cease to exist as a national party. It’s just that simple.

I say we give Steele a chance, but keep a very short leash on him and insist he enacts this kind of agenda for the party as RNC chair. He should call on Gingrich, Rove, Palin, Pawlenty, and others to serve as advisors.

Another man who needs to be in the national forum is Lynn Swann–the man who ran for Gov. in PA.

I’m not saying this as a “black thing”; I am saying that being black is a weapon one can use against the left. You fight to win and you use every weapon you can get your hands on to do so. Both men are of a different generation than that currently running things. Both are successful men who have much to offer. Both were pretty much screwed by the party system as it exists today. I don’t want to see Gov. Palin or Gov. Jindal go by the wayside either–use every weapon in your arsenal.

We need to take the party away from the DC set, and the Ivy Leagues. Their primary motive is for themselves, to preserve their social position and their power.

We need a grass-roots movement. A Republican is not a member of the “filthy rich”. A Republican is one who wishes to preserve a way of life in which a person who is driven to succeed CAN BECOME FILTHY RICH. We want the pie to grow continuously, so that each piece is a little bigger.

The already wealthy don’t really create that many jobs. It is those who are building wealth that create the majority of jobs. This is something which has to be disseminated continuously, to combat the big lie of the far left.

For me, it’s global warming. That is the credibility litmus test. If he buys into it, and all that that implies, he’s a lost cause.

keep the change on November 14, 2008 at 9:40 AM

I agree. You have to be an absolute moron to buy into that $hat.

Steele (scroll down to bottom of page for video).

I wish him the best. As far as Colmes, most of what he says, I feel he doesn’t even believe. I don’t take him very seriously at all.

Go Michael!

Forget this man’s qualifications, this will be so much more racism flung in our faces.

It doesn’t hurt that he is black since you know any criticism of The Black Caesar will be met with charges of racism. It will be funny to watch Obama’s white media friends try to paint Steele as an Uncle Tom.