Standing athwart history, yelling, “I’m not wearing any pants!”

Michael Steele sat down recent with Townhall’s Amanda Carpenter (the future ex-Mrs. Brodigan.com) to kibitz on his running for RNC Chairman. If you have nine minutes to spare it’s well worth the watch. He covers where he thinks the party went wrong, what epic battles are on the horizon with a President BAM, where the GOP needs to be on both a grassroots and technological level, and more. He also talked aboot some of the criticism of his conservative bona fides.

The criticism of the bona fides is what makes me want to wild out and get violent. Besides calling into question whether a pro-life Catholic that is rated 100 percent pro-life by the National Right to Life Committee is pro-Life enough, there’s also the matter of him at one point being on the board of the moderate Republican Leadership Council. I also hear tales of him attending the same banquet as a Democrat did a few years ago. It’s so hard to verify every rumour that comes up.

Now this is all just silly, or as Mary Katherine Ham (the other future ex-Mrs. Brodigan.com) puts it:

“A black Catholic who grew up in D.C. and lives in Prince George’s County becomes a Republican, overcoming social pressure and withstanding abuse, because he believes in conservative ideas and the way they can serve all communities, not because he wishes to be a squishy moderate beloved of the Beltway press.”

If people don’t like his ideas and want to vote for someone else, I say God bless. It’s your vote. But if this is going to be why we don’t elect him, over petty junk like this…we deserve to keep losing cycle after cycle.

UPDATE: I’m sure he’ll have a lot more to say Dec. 4th on the Ed Morrisey Show.