Michael Steele; Can the “Man of Steele” Revive the Republican Party’s Sinking Ship & Can the Republicans Put a Muzzle on Rush Limbaugh?By Marc Chamot
“Short of a miracle, and unless the Democratic Party falls flat on their faces, because of their failure in fixing the disastrous American economic situation, and unless the Republican Party changes its philosophy from Wall Street to Main Street, not even the Man of Steele can fix their fast sinking image.”
Michael Steele is one of the brightest political minds around. He’s black, a conservative, and Republican, and he’s also very well known by the media everywhere.
For the Republicans in choosing him as their fearless leader, and their party savior, couldn’t have come at a better time. Under these extreme circumstances, and under the chaotic state that the party is in, it wasn’t too hard to figure out as to why the Republicans put him in charge.
After the sheer dominance of African American voters that catapulted Barack Obama over the top of the Democratic Party echelon, Republicans desperately found the need to pull in these lost black conservative voters back. Michael Steele wants to take the party to the grassroots level, and into the community level to rebuild a Party that is in disarray.
Michael Steele says that “the party has been unfairly caricatured by Democrats and the media, as racist and insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans. We also have an image problem” he said; “we’ve been misidentified as the party that doesn’t care, a party that’s insensitive, and a party that is unconcerned about minorities…nothing can be further from the truth.”
I totally disagree with Michael Steele’s views that the Republican Party is seen as racist, but I also disagree with Michael Steele’s portrayal that the Democrats are caricaturing the party as a doesn’t care party, and are insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans.
These are not Democrat Propaganda folks! I’m not a Democrat; I’m far from being a Democrat. These are the cold hard FACTS about the matter, this fallacy is only being believed by the right-wing of the Republican Party, the Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s types, and by the right-wing pipe dreamers of the party.
It’s a TRUE FACT folks. Michael Steele is dead wrong. If the Republicans want to keep on going into this path of self denial, they will FAIL miserably, whether with him or without him at the helm.
The Republican Party has become the “Wall Street’s Party,” the party for the corporate elites, the party for the super rich, rather than the party for the common American working man, or for labor and for the American middleclass.
The Republican Party has also shown its true colors that they’re not the party for the regular working Joe’s of America. They are far from it, they never were the party for the majority of the middleclass, and they practically destroyed the working American middleclass.
Take a look at what the Republicans have done since 2000-2006, when President George Bush took office, and when the Republicans had total control of Washington politics. We lost millions of jobs, and mainly to China in favor for corporate profits. And during those years they were into “heavy duty” well paid American labor busting schemes, in lieu for cheaper foreign labor to help fill these greedy Wall Street CEO’s filthy pockets, with millions of dollars in bonuses, while Americans were going jobless in droves!
Rush Limbaugh used to be good for American politics; he may have 13 million listeners, but they don’t all vote and follow what he says for them to do. Rush, was a great voice at one time for the opposition.I avidly listened to Rush Limbaugh, but there’s no doubt that Rush Limbaugh has lost his luster, and has done considerable damage to the Republican Party. Rush Limbaugh hasn’t been influential for the past two elections outcomes, the 2006 and the most recent in 2008. Rush Limbaugh has practically alienated some of his core supporters, and voters that used to make up the Republican Party, the conservative Libertarians like myself, who most have gone Independent.
I think what killed Rush Limbaugh with most Libertarians, was his constant pandering for President Bush’s illegal wiretappings on Americans, it was being done under the pretext of protecting us from terrorism, while knowing full well that it was against our protected rights as citizens, under the freedom and civil liberties, which is protected by the United States constitution.
When someone is hell bent in going against the American constitution, it can be pretty damaging politically. Take for example, the 2002 McCain-Feingold bill, the bill that Republican Senator John McCain co-wrote with Democrat Russ Feingold, and that both supported, they went directly after our freedoms of speech that was protected under our U.S. constitution. Unfortunately, this travesty stuck more with John McCain than it did with Russ Feingold.
The Republican Party has disgracefully drifted away, and has gotten completely out of touch with the American working populace, and made a mockery with our civil liberties. It angered the conservative Libertarians in the middleclass; and the regular blue collar working Joes’ of America, and these were the largest voting block in America.
It’s going to take a whole lot more than just a “Man of Steele” to get back the lost black voters, and to make things happen for the Republican Party again. It’s going to take a complete party makeover, reaching out to lost Libertarians, and middleclass workers. Doing business without the likes of the Rush Limbaugh’s and the Sean Hannity’s, and especially without having both of these characters stringing the party to their every whim.
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Marc Chamot, is a dear friend of mine and some one that can test your knowledge about current events. But his latest blog has totally missed the “Marc” with his assumptions about the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, and the connection between the Clinton N.A.F.T.A and jobs leaving the US.
To begin with I would like to give kudos to Michael Steele, this is a man who, not because of his skin color, but because of the “R” by his name was defeated in the Maryland 2006 Senate election. You would think the democrats would back a black candidate over a white candidate (yes I still believe the dems did not want a conservative black man in the senate.) I believe that he will bring some backbone to the Republicans, if they choose to listen to him and follow along.
Which brings me to my next point, the Republican party as a whole. They have shown that they will cave and cower to the press and democrats (yes I know that I am spelling Democrats in lower case,) they do not want to be perceived as being racist, homophobic, sexist, or any other politically incorrect label that you can think of.
Even when the party went out of its way to grow the budget and spend like drunken sailors, they would still get negative press as a party. Michael Steele does have his work cut out for him. He will need show the American people that the Republicans (at least in the past) are for the little man and that smaller government is good for all, rich and poor alike. He will have to bypass the Clinton/Obama media and go straight to the people. When I say people, I mean all Americans, with out the B.S. of the stupid labels such as African-American, Latino-American, European-American (I know they are just white but go with me on this one), American-Indian-American, Stupid-American, Thirsty-American, Hungry-American, so on and so forth.
Wow with all of the different groups that we have in America, Steele does have his work cut out, in as far as addressing their various needs and distinct cultures; or is he going to see all Americans as just that, Americans. That is the pit that the Republican party fell into. They have been sucked into this popularism of the left and the democratic party. They wish to please every body, but you can only make some of the people happy some of the time, and all of them none of the time. You got to stick to core values, smaller government and less spending. They chose to ignore that value.
To know about the lack of leadership you only need to look at former President Bush, you can read my earlier blog discussion about him. The fact that Bush was just for big business and not the working class, then explain the tax cuts for the middle class. Which are set to expire in 2010, then you will see the middle class get hit hard and the democrats will do nothing to stop it. He also was not responsible for all the jobs going out of the country, remember Clinton (1993) is the one who signed onto N.A.F.T.A. But President Bush did sign C.A.F.T.A.,in 2005, half way through his presidency and in 2006 the democrats took control of the Senate, so in that respect some of the jobs went south (no pun intended.)
This other obsession that Marc has about Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh being the reason that the Republican party had tanked, well Marc my friend, if the Republican party would have listened to Rush and Sean, then they would not be in the mess they are in now. As a matter of fact, they would never have run a chump like McCain as their nominee. If you really listen to Rush and Sean, then you would know that they do not give out marching orders to their listening masses. Those that listen will also know that Rush and Sean are for smaller government and the working man keeping more of his paycheck rather than giving it to the government. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, present facts and then they give their point of view about it. The facts are the Republicans stopped listening to any conservative voice years ago when they started to spend, spend, spend.
The Republicans under Bush did this to themselves, as Bush pointed out in 2006, “they got a whoopin” and he did nothing to help them. Like I said, I explain this in my earlier blog.
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and others have picked up where Ronald Reagan had left off and continued the drumbeat of real liberty through a limited and smaller government, less spending, and less taxes being taken away from the working man (both rich and poor.) Yes I defend the rich, namely because you can not get work from a poor man. I think that Libertarians would even agree with this summation that is to say it is parallel to the Libertarian thinking.
I do agree that the Republican party has went along with the democrats, because they perceived it would gain them power and cause them to be re-elected. In this sense Marc is right that they have drifted away from main street and went to the gated community. They have tried the democratic way and they are finding it to be as bitter as hemlock, and the ones who drank deeply are now gone.
The new Republican chairman does have a lot of pieces to pick up and there will be a lot of helping hands that will offer assistance. Whether he will listen to the “ideologist” of the left or the right (I think we all know that answer,) he will do what he can to put back the undamaged pieces and fill in the holes with new and better people.
The Idea that Rush and Sean are responsible for the Republicans downfall is down right laughable. In reality Rush did all that he could to offer ideas to the Republicans and give them any assistance that he could. Oh by the way he still is not part of the party.
Like I said earlier Marc it has right and wrong on this matter, he still makes very valid points but misses some others. But healthy debate in a free society is what it is all about, only John McCain would disagree with that, yeah I am still angry about that.
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