Michael Steele and the New Traditionalists
Apparently instead of Michael Steele vs. Newt Gingrich for RNC Chair, it’s going to be Michael Steele running with an endorsement from Newt Gingrich. There’s even a Draft Michael Steele website that “suddenly” popped up.
I’ll take Steele with a Newt seal of approval. Steele fills my first two requirements for RNC Chair, and with Newt behind the scene as the idea man, they’ll be a strong duo. And as much as I hate “identity politics,” having Steele, Sarah Palin, and Bobby Jindal as three of our top voices in the party isn’t a bad thing.
Add to that Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint in the Senate. Add to that Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, and Pete Sessions in the House. Add to that everyone Republican Governor eyeing 2012. Anyone who wants to tell me the Republican Party is in shambles can suck it.
The only question now is direction. David Brooks fired the latest salvo of the moderate vs. traditionalist war. I’m more with Stephen Hayes in that I find myself somewhere in the middle. It annoys me the way people think it has to be either the red pill or the blue pill. Personally speaking, give me some of that old time conservatism with a side order of the realization it isn’t 1987 anymore.
I think the key is more of a focus on conservative solutions to kitchen table issues like the economy, education, healthcare, and energy. As for the more divisive social issues, we need to find a way to make them less divisive. There has to be a way to take a stand against illegal immigration without the vitriol and animosity towards illegal immigrants. Let’s stop looking at global warming as nothing more than a liberal media conspiracy, while not rushing into bad policy and staying to the right of the nuts who consider it to be “treason” to ask questions. We need to be able to articulate the sanctity of life in a way other than “Jesus said so.”
More importantly, let’s stop treating each other like heretics because we might disagree with Rush Limbaugh or the “National Review” on any one single issue. Some of us prefer Joe Scarborough and “The Weekly Standard.” That doesn’t make us less a conservative.
Anyway, wherever we go from here, Michael Steele running the RNC is definitely a step in the right direction.
UPDATE: Fred? Apparently he told the crew at NRO that he wasn’t, but a lot can change in less than a week.
We NEED Michael Steele to lead our Conservative Movement!!
I would like to learn more about Michael Steele. I think it is important to show the diversity behind the Conservative party. I also think it is time to stop all the negative campaigning and just campaign on the issues that are important to the American people. Lets keep showing the world the best of the Conservatives and what they have to offer because that is all we need to do to convince the world that it is the best way to run a country.
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