And why? Will the decision to keep Steele be made based on race? Maybe Holder was right, after all.

I don’t know that anyone in Steele’s position could actually rebuild the RNC, or if any of the candidates would be able to do it. But I’m thinking they would at least support the party.

I wonder if this was a Rahm plot to take the heat of the Rush imbroglio?

Before that I would have said I’m not surprised the rumors are starting. The election was heatedly contested, Steele has slipped up, and he is playing things very close to the vest at the moment for precisely the reason that (according to the an interview with him in the Washington Times) he doesn’t want developing ideas shredded by rumors before they even get out of the gestation period. That undercuts a lot of people who probably previously figured they’d be able to manipulate the levers of power even if they weren’t in charge.

I’m still gonna be watching Steele like the firebrand paleoconservative I am, but he won the election and that means we owe him the chance to succeed.

But Dawson is a ready made GOP embarrassment with his past. We lose either way. Why can’t this party find a good leader:(

…eroding confidence in the national party apparatus…

I wasn’t aware that something which is non-existent could erode.

Seriously, you don’t want to upend a National Committe Chairman just because he has a bad outing on the Hughley show. I understand that he frakked up, and so does Steele, but the metrics we need to look at are as follows:

1. First Quarter Fundraising.
2. Candidate Recruitment for Governor’s Races and State House races (reapportionment, people, reapportionment!!!).
3. NY 20

If Steele is building staff and is pursuing a Republican version of 50 State, then good for him. If he’s going on the offensive, than good for him. We’re looking at at least three cycles before getting back in the game in the House, anyway.

Dividing your enemy is classic military tactics, so this smells really fishy.

No one who is elected into an office should be tossed out without specific cause in the first 60 days. Geez, let the guy get his strategy and bearings. I don’t see anyone advocating the same for Obama.

…you know, polished, charismatic guy takes the reins of a down-but-not-out fraternity, lets a few gaffes fly, and all of a sudden Bluto and his merry men hatch a hairbrained scheme to come in, oust the tool, and TOTALLY turn things around!!!! OMG!!! LOL, etc.

~facepalm~

All we’re missing is Kevin Bacon, and kegs for the post-ousting bender.

I smell a rat.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)

Steele so far has been a disappointment. But I think he deserves at least until after the races in VA and NJ this year before he’s given a grade.

To be perfectly honest though, I’d rather not be seeing him on television being a talking head - it would appear he has the unfortunate tendency of trying to cater to his audience, which is dangerous when on liberal shows hosted by liberals before an audience of liberals.

Therefore I’d rather be reading more about the new hires he’s making, new projects he’s starting up, events he’s organizing, stuff he’s reforming at the RNC.

Let’s be honest here, we’re stuck with the guy. Once the RNC elected him, they tied their own hands and I’m pretty certain they know it as well as we do. In other words, if Steele is not allowed to complete his tenure, we would be giving a racial thermonuclear warhead to the opposition.

Unless Steele is replaced by another black man.

So even if Dawson was indeed entertaining thoughts of getting Steele booted out, he had to know there was no way he was getting the seat himself - especially given the baggage the Left has put on his past.

Which leaves Blackwell … I’d be happy about that. But I’d be seriously unhappy if it ever came to that; because it would mean Steele had failed.

And trust me when I say; going into 2010, we don’t want that.

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      - Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”

All this RNC stuff is overhyped. Regardless, A press release from Camp Sarahcuda:

“SarahPAC supports leaders and candidates that share Governor Palin’s vision of government reform, low taxes, and personal freedom. Governor Palin will soon be traveling the country and working to support leaders who share this vision.”

… especially the dust-up with Rush and his baffling non-response to DL Hugley, but this is a bit premature.

What Steele SHOULD do though is to stay off of TV for a while and maybe spend some time with Haley Barbour who could show him a thing or two about how it’s done.

As most know here, I was an early critic of Steele and had immense doubts about him. I backed Blackwell over him. I am definitely dismayed about his dustup with Rush and his limp wristed response when his party was compared to NAZIs. That having been said and dispensed with, I would definitely oppose any attempt to remove him at this time. He hasn’t had a chance to shape the RNC and accomplish any of his agenda and to short circuit him it this point is complete and utter idiocy IMHO. What I see here as a crybaby attempt by the establishment and the scumbags Steele sent packing with good reason and a spiteful attempt to prevent him from succeeding at any cost.

As to the personalities mention, I think what I say above is justified.

Gov. Huntsman is a moderate Republican who was an early backer for John McCain in the 2008 primaries and is rumored to be in the hunt for 2012. He’s known for his green policies, support for health care reform, pro Gay Marriage, and other “Compassionate Conservative” positions, He has commended Obama’s pick of Kathleen Sebelious and was endorsed for Governor by numerous news outlets in Utah for his willingness to reach across the isle to enact legislation.

Romney is a moderate Republican from the NE who is the likely establishment pick for POTUS in 2012. He’s also in the pro government health care camp, pro gay marriage, questionable on life issues etc. Given his behavior and tactics in the primaries last year, this kind of thing is right up his alley. It’s Romney’s style and typical of those who ran his campaign to kneecap and undermine any and all opposition to him and damn the consequences!

Of course Dawson has an interest in this since he is the apparent pick of these two. I don’t know enough about him to voice opposition or support of/to him…maybe someone here can give me some insight…but the fact that he would play ball with the other two…and the establishment crowd who are directing this doesn’t speak well of him.

I’m not a party insider and I can only guess at this since I’m an outsider looking in…but it looks to me like there are some sour grapes involved where Steele is concerned. My guess is that this is being supported, (to the extent that it has any support), by those that are pissed and upset by the fact that Duncan was their first choice but they were soundly spanked by their rank and file into rejecting him for Chairman.

Whether Duncan has anything to do with this is irrelevant to my mind. The main thing we need to focus on here is the antics of those who once held the reigns and drove the wagon into the ditch who want to blame everything and everybody but themselves for the damage they have wrought and will slit anyone’s throat to get back in control!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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As I have said before, I supported Steele for the position, but his statements and appearances have ranged from inadequate to embarrassing.

He simply isn’t up to snuff.

The grassroots voted for McCain because he wasn’t Obama. Not because of Duncan, not because of the RNC, and not because of McCain. The votes went the way they did because the DNC — not the RNC — successfully got their talking points out. They effectively made it a race of Obama versus W. Other than the pure personality votes (those who voted for Obama as Messiah versus those who genuinely like McCain as President), the race was made up of those who didn’t like Bush and those who didn’t like Obama.

If you want to pretend there’s confidence in the National Party, fine. Your head, your sand — do what you want with them. But I look at the RNC under Duncan (and, honestly, in the last several years) and I see a party which has allowed itself and its members be designated as greedy, racist thugs — and rather than stand up for its correct principles, it has denied those principles, throwing those who held them under the bus, in order to win elections.

Duncan was ousted because of his failure to correct the narrative. Steele was voted in, partly, because of his percieved understanding of how to do so. But so far, rather than correct the narrative — rather than finding ways to present the message that Republican values, AS THEY ARE, -are- compassionate, -are- inclusive, -are- the BEST way to insure freedom for every American — he chose to fall back on attacking the message, and its messengers. This does not bode well.