The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : If Steele Doesn't Win Now....

Text Size

If Steele Doesn't Win Now....

By Quin Hillyer on 1.30.09 @ 3:12PM

..... the the RNC is incredibly stupid, utterly oblivious to the connection between PR and politics.

Steele is a good man and a great public speaker. Whether he has any real nuts-and bolts and fundraising skills is open to question, but the Republican Party right now can't stand NOT to find out, because the PR downside of failing to elect him now would be a disaster on the scale of Vesuvius.....

View all comments (6) | Leave a comment

A Balrog of Morgoth| 1.30.09 @ 3:16PM

I am surprised that Dawson is naive enough to think the country club thing will get a pass if he wins.

A Balrog of Morgoth| 1.30.09 @ 3:20PM

On the other hand, based on what little I have read, Steele seems to think the 2nd amendment was written by avid sportsmen and skeet-shooting enthusiasts, which is a bit offputting.

Hank| 1.30.09 @ 3:24PM

I already decided to stop donating to the RNC over the original bailout, the trashing of Sarah Palin and the confirmation of the Obama nominees to Sec of State, Treasury and Justice. If Steele loses I just may change my party registration too. After all, at the rate these idiots at RNC are trashing the party there won't be a GOP much longer to belong to in any event.

Basil Plumley| 1.30.09 @ 3:30PM

Never underestimate the corruption of the Democrat Party and the stupidity of the GOP.

BJC| 1.30.09 @ 5:13PM

I'm now quite pessimistic about the near-future recovery of the GOP. If the Republicans were going to fall into the thicket of identity-group politics and then get stuck in a PR nightmare, Ken Blackwell would have been a markedly superior choice to Michael Steele. In my view, Steele is suspect for having trucked around with conservative-hating bigots within the GOP -- like C. Todd Whitman, for one primo example. The greatest benefit to the Republican Party in having a black American spokesman is eliciting Leftists to commit ridiculous denuncations of the man as not being "really black," as they have done with Clarence Thomas and J.C. Watts; similarly, Sarah Palin was target of silly Leftist pronouncements that she wasn't really a woman for not being Leftist and not advocating the Leftist immorality code. A hint of the trouble ahead: Steele failed to mention the South, so is he going to be an apologist for the conservative-bashers and the South-bashers? By their fruits you shall know them....