The former lieutenant governor of Maryland, Michael Steel, is the first black chairman of the RNC. With Mr. Steele's selection, the Republicans will try to enlarge their base and try to build political coalitions that have been lacking.
Mr. Steele said he would bring the republican party to every neighborhood and every corner and that its time to try something different. He also said the republican party has an image problem and that the American people has lost faith in our leadership. The results of last November's election is clearly visible as to what is going thru the minds of republicans.
However, the test for republicans will not be Mr. Steele, it will be who emerges as their party's leader for President. As of this writing there has been no change in the attitude of the republican leaders in congress. Will neocons like Newt Gingrich, Bill Bennett, Mitch McConnell, John McCain and others still set the divisive republican tone. Will Mr. Steele tell the neocon right wing journalists such as Sean Hannity, Bill O'Rielly, William Kristol and Rush Limbaugh to just shut up or will they also continue to be divisive?
My recommendations to Mr. Steele is to lead the republican party away from those guys because they have been wrong about everything. Let go of the phony conservative ideology that your party preaches, confess that republican moral values are no better than the average Americans and that the republican agenda for the future will be an American agenda. It has already been established that a conservative agenda is a phony agenda.
It will be interesting in the next few months to see if there will indeed be a change in the party and its leaders.
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From what I have seen and heard so far the republicans have learned nothing from the recent presidential election. They are still trying to sell their failed economic policies. The people would do well to tune out the republicans.
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