Exit question: Why’s Beck yelling at him about “marketing”? What else can Steele do except sell the message? If you want to complain to someone about living the principles, call Arlen Specter

Who is he going to market it to? Those of us that are conservative? The other half isn’t going to listen, they just voted on a bill that they have no idea what is in it or how it is going to affect the future of the country.

I just read on Drudge that Chavez got term limits lifted, the chosen one has indicated he wants to do the same here. Do you really think it won’t happen with the imbeciles that are in power and those that put them there? Good Bye Republic. It is going to take more than just HA and marketing to turn this around.

The conservatives in Congress better drop the R and call themselves Independents or Independent Conservative. The GOP won’t survive this RNC Chairman.

Michael Steele

Let me offer 5 interpretations or conclusions that can be drawn from this statement:

1)For the GOP to succeed in future elections it must focus on pleasing ‘you’ (the party base, independent conservatives and libertarians, and those who are anti-Obama)

2)’No reason’ simply acknowledges that the Republicans broke faith with ‘you’ by not standing as one against the stimulus bill (Collins, Snowe, and Spector bolted)and RINO’s not taking sound conservative principled positions that ‘you’ expect from Republicans before the 2008 campaign (the Bush White House allowing spending and the national debt to get out of control, during the 2008 campaign where McCain was perceived to ‘going soft on Obama’ and after January 20 as Obama set about to impose his socialist agenda on America.

3)’Trust’ is based on faith and confidence that one will achieve his goals. ‘You’ no longer trusts that the Republicans either know what they are doing (building political infrastructure, raising money, reaching voters, tapping into the new technologies etc)or know how to win elections (the message, candidates and promotion). Steele must endeavor to build this trust anew and he started by acknowledging rather than sugarcoating reality. If Steele had obfuscated or tried to paint too rosy of an outlook, critics would have assailed Steele as just another GOP hack that kept his head buried in the sand. As young children begin to trust their parents more because of accurate mounting evidence the ‘you’ will begin to trust the GOP again because of transparent, positive mounting evidence.

4)The ‘us’ Steele is referring to is the national and state party apparatus,including Steele himself, and the members of Congress. The ‘us’ tells the masses a convincing story on the stump during the campaign but once they set foot in Washington they either begin to adopt the mentality of oily, expedient politicians or reacquaint themselves with the Beltway mentality of how a decision will play in the MSM, among the elitists and pundits, and impact lobbyists.

5)As I have commented on another posting ‘at this time’ is a key phrase that Steele used. Again he is stating reality at a point on a timeline, but as mature adults know the only thing constant in this world is CHANGE; the emergence of various personalities, issues, circumstances and strategy and the interaction of these variables will most certainly change the political landscape, hopefully for the benefit of the GOP in 2010 and 2012. Steele’s statement is factual but also provides hope. As of February 15th 2009 we have little more to hitch our wagons to.

I didn’t see Obama talk to anyone who was making $250K a year running a business and begging for a handout.

Now you understand?

angryed on February 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM

well, he did trot out the CEO of GE, and isn’t GE stock doing great?

Get rid of all the RINOs like Specter, Snowe, Graham, Collins AND MCCAIN, return to the principles so well stated by the late great Ronald Reagan, and maybe then you will regain my trust.

Why must your side pretend that Dem voters all are lazy, no job having, low lifes when that’s just not even close to the truth.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM

Because that best defines the listless gaggle of useless parasites “your side” has elected to champion. They pander to the mindless masses then herd them to the polls during elections.

Got it now?

Why must your side pretend that Dem voters all are lazy, no job having, low lifes when that’s just not even close to the truth.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM

Maybe cuz the people Obama keeps trotting out as beneficiaries of the porkulus are Julio, the guy who after 4.5 years at McDonald’s can’t get a better job. And that woman who demanded that Obama give her a bathroom and a kitchen and a car.

I didn’t see Obama talk to anyone who was making $250K a year running a business and begging for a handout.

Now you understand?

No, he’s got it about right. I’m going with ‘exactly as self-deprecating as he should be. Steele’s going to rock as RNCC, but he’s got to start from the ground and remake our party.

Michael Steele continues to prove my predictions about him correct, he is a total embarassment, even to Glenn Beck. And it says something when Glenn Beck can be taken aback by your utter suckitude and betamale-ness. Here’s Steele’s problem. …………………

DeathToMediaHacks on February 14, 2009 at 5:27 PM

^^ Given the source of the comments, that‘s a ringing endorsement of why we need Michael Steele in the GOP.

Who saw this coming? Did the markets? In October 2007 the Dow was at record highs. The experts did not think this would happen. And even when the housing bubble burst and people said the economy would slow down I do not recall anyone anticipating a global financial crisis like this. In August before the crash offshore drilling was the big item for Republicans here, not subprime loans.

As far as I know Beck has not won elections or run for office, he talks for a living.

Steele has to actually find a way to help establish that trust as well as make the GOP seem attractive to voters. At a time when Democrats are promising people everything but the moon, that will not be easy.

Nah, McCain just sucked at explaining it in coherent form and Obama just blamed Bush and offered nothing but hope and change.

What seemed odd to me was that McCain appeared to be caught completely off-guard by the problem with Lehman Brothers and AIG and the sub-prime mortgage mess.

You would have thought that the Bush administration would have given McCain a head’s up so he could have dealt with the matter in his convention speech or in speeches within one week of the convention or at least have been better prepared to what his next move was going to be once he found out.

This makes you think that the Bush administration did not want to do McCain any favors or that the meltdown was an abrupt turn of events brought on by external forces either discounted or dismissed by the administration or Congress prior to September 15th.

Ah hell the Democrats and their sycophants in the press corps have been pushing that message for years and someone, George Soros? and his allies made it happen. The fun part is it was a Democrat that broke it open. I have contacted my Congressman to see if its true since he is a on the relevant committees.

Hear, Hear, I have been saying its the NRSC’s responsibility to deal with the three not Steele’s and the RNC. The RNC needs to build from the bottom up and not concern itself so much with issues related to the NRSC or the NRCC. Like I said before if you have a problem with Collins ,Snowe and Specter make your feelings known to the NRSC and let Steele and the RNC concentrate on building the party from the bottom up.