New RNC Chairman: GOP Is Great Just The Way It Is

[SemiCharmedQuark]

RNC Chairman Michael Steele took to the Sunday talk show circuit for the first time since he was elected to the post. And while he pledged to help restore the Republican Party to a more powerful perch, he outlined a game plan that seemed reminiscent of years past.

Pressed by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, Steele diagnosed the GOP ills as a problem of the messenger but not the message -- he even suggested that the party should look back to New Gingrich's Contract With America for inspiration.

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There were aspects of the program where Steele discussed the need to forge a different path for the GOP. He talked openly about his work with the centrist Republican Leadership Council, and -- more broadly -- about the need to recruit moderates back into the party tent. At one point, he highlighted poverty and education reform as two issues that could be new areas of focus for the party.

But mainly the ten minutes Steele spent on the show were aimed at propping up the Republican brand as it currently exists -- the byproduct of the race he just ran, in which he largely played down his more moderate roots in favor of positioning himself as a conservative standard-bearer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/01/steele-the-gop-does-not-h_n_162896.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ackkkkkkkk!!!!!

[NOW tense]

2. Fine.

[radfringe]

3. lol...good - then that means

he has no intention of learning from the 2006 midterm and 2008 elections.

I heard one blatherhead say he thinks the GOP are counting on past patterns where a President's party tend to lose seats at the midterms.

[Cronopio]

4. Radical and marginalized. Couldn't agree with him more. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Don't change a thing, Michael. Your side has a winning strategy.

(For the opposition)

[IDemo]

6. Stepping forward .......... INTO THE PAST!

[tulsakatz]

7. the republican party chose Steele to lead them.......

....there is something strange when the republican party chooses a man to lead them, a man who (in his last election) tried to deceive voters into believing he was a democrat in order to get re-elected!!

I don't know......it seems strange to me.

And another thing, there was an article in the NY Times this morning that suggested if they don't drop their insistence on strict immigration policy, they could become permanently irrelevant!

On second thought.....I would have no problem with that!

[NC_Nurse]

8. Delusional. Always has been. I guess they like it that way.

[spanone]

9. that only means they will remain irrelevant all the longer

[Kip Humphrey]

10. Yup..with Rush & Sarah as bookends, what could be better???!!!