“Mr. Steele declined a request for an interview.”
Dan Riehl caught this first, and I concur: there are times when you pick yourself up, walk it off, and get back to work – and Steele’s gotten to that point. Yes, the media doesn’t love the GOP, except as a punching bag. And yes, the media loves to see Red-on-Red fights, the latest of which has spent far too much time occupying people’s brains than it should have for the last two weeks. And yes, there are ongoing philosophical issues between the various factions of the GOP that are causing all sorts of dynamic tension / impending meltdown / what have you.
Meanwhile, there’s a race going on up in NY-20. Is that less important to you than whether Steele’s sufficiently pro-life? If it isn’t, Tedisco can always use the help. There’s also a race going on over in IL-05. Are you looking for a better hill to fight and maybe die on than whether or not Rush is going to doom the GOP? If you are, Pulido wants to hear from you. Virginia and New Jersey are having elections for governor this year. Are you tired of the debate over who should be the next Presidential candidate? Then the NJ GOP and the VA GOP would be happy to redirect your interests to something a bit more topical.
I could go on, but hopefully you get the point. There is business that must be attended to, and at this point we are merely amusing the Other Side.
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Spot on!
franklinslocke Friday, March 13th at 9:07AM EST (link)It is time that the GOP does get to work on getting its message out. They need to start expressing Conservative principles and values. This will counter what the Left is doing in the media.
Also, this will begin to inform new people about Conservatism that are hungry for answers to what is happening to them. Keep in mind. A bunch of people who have not followed politics just woke up to find their taxes higher and their 401k’s gone. They want answers. The GOP can do that. It is time.
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Amen!!!! nt
Steph C (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 9:27AM EST (link).
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Back to work!!!!
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 9:33AM EST (link)Good advice, Moe.
And I concur.
You think
HMHaanpaa Friday, March 13th at 10:57AM EST (link)Steele is wearing a patch now, or is he chewing a gum substitute? I wonder if he knew that he does have limits.
Excellent point
Adjoran (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 5:34PM EST (link)Hey, the time to get lathered up over Steele’s squishy positions (life issues, affirmative action, etc.) was before he won the job.
As far as his performance so far goes, while I’m disappointed, I am neither shocked nor discouraged. The man is on the big-time stage for the first time, with all the spotlights and laser sights on him.
Remember Howard Dean’s first year at DNC? All his repeated stumbles and gaffes? Oh, how we laughed and high-fived that this nincompoop was leading the opposition!
BUT ~ he managed to recover sufficiently to clean our clocks in ’06 and ’08 anyway, didn’t he?
More Alinsky-Inspired Shenanigans
reaganiterepublicanresistance Friday, March 13th at 6:14PM EST (link)The synthetic crises with Steele are yet another attempt at baiting fake fights on the right as a smokescreen to divert attention from Obama’s ongoing demolition of the country and divide his GOP opponents- >yawn<
Of course Team Obama’s attacks against Limbaugh have failed spectacularly, with his radio audience already doubled by the exposure. Now millions more people who would never had heard him will be tuning-in to hear what’s wrong with Obama’s socialist schemes and what a ethical black-hole he is.
First the White House takes shots at Limbaugh, then the DNC runs anti-Limbaugh ads (even some in Spanish), then the press drills every GOP official about Limbaugh, then the left-leaning press takes the worst reactions and tries to create a false crisis out of it… wherever could such a strategy have sprung from? -
Obama mentor Saul Alinsky’s handbook Rules for Radicals outlines the techniques used by this administration to try and break any link between Rush Limbaugh’s influence and the GOP- it’s basically a divide-and-conquer approach. These maneuvers betray an insecure, petty, and underhanded President Obama.
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