Man of Steele
Congrats, again, to Michael Steele on becoming the Chairman of the Republican National Committee:
Members of the Republican National Committee elected their first African-American party chief Friday, choosing former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to chair the organization after six tumultuous rounds of voting.
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“We’re going to say to friend and foe alike, we want you to be a part of us,” Steele told party members in his victory speech. “And to those of you who will obstruct, get ready to get knocked over.”
“For so long we’ve allowed the Democrats to define us. We’ve allowed the media to define us,” he said. “And so it’s important for us to be able to establish with clarity what we believe.”
Steele also had a message for President Barack Obama, who stumped for his opponent during his unsuccessful 2006 Senate campaign.
“I would say to the new president, congratulations. It is going to be an honor to spar with him,” Steele said. “And I would follow that up with: How do you like me now?”
I don’t know Steele well enough to know how well he’ll hold up in the ring against President Obama, but at least he’ll be on an even footing. It saddens me to say what is obvious and undeniable: the Republican Party needs a black person to lead the opposition against Obama. Rush Limbaugh may be the best street fighter among the conservatives, but to the liberal intelligentsia of the media he is a nasty brawler (and a good thing, too!).
Let the white snobs look down their noses at Steele, as they surely will. Let them pay the price, as they surely ought to.
Tanstaafl said,
January 31, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
New to your site today. Like what I see. Used to be liberal and democrat, but it was Dhimmi Carter that finished me with dems, liberals, and islam. Came to see that most of the orgs that made improvements for women, blacks, gays, and others had at some point gone over to the dark side and continued to exist for their own sake and were beginning to damage the causes they once promoted. So here I am - a registered Republican who watched George Bush betray every conservative principle, hoping that Michael Steele can put some of the same into the battered GOP.
Carol said,
January 31, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
I heard or read someone say that Republicans were handicapped by George Bush being president because they had to mind their Ps and Qs, or not speak ill of another Republican, or something so, unless the people verbally assaulted their elected representatives, they wouldn’t stand up to the leader of their party.
Well, we no longer have that handicap and I hope we can avoid it again.
But here’s a question: did John McCain win the nomination because he was selected by Democrats crossing over to make trouble, or are there that many squishy Republicans out there? I think John McCain’s selection as the presidential candidate shows that the primary system is seriously FUBARed. So how do we fix it?
John Lofton, Recovering Republican said,
January 31, 2009 @ 9:31 pm
FYI, might want to listen to my exclusive interview with Michael Steele and comment. Thanks. JL.
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=1205
And forget, please, “conservatism,” please. It will not “save” us because it has been, operationally, de facto, Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
“[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com