The Daily Warning

Alright, there have been some problems for Michael Steele in the blogosphere and among some state party chairs.  He’s committed some apparent gaffes , which makes some bloggers fear will contribute to us not being taken seriously, and he’s said some things that have worried classic segments of the conservative base on abortion and whether homosexuality is natural .  Along with this he’s pissed off some by avoiding the word “socialist” and opposing a movement in the RNC to rebrand the Democrat Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party” .

The bloggers are off the mark.  Ultimately it’s not a question of how the National Committee Chair of either party looks in the media.  It’s not Michael Steele’s job to look good, it’s not Michael Steele’s job to sell himself, it’s Michael Steele’s job to build the party without sacrificing our core principles, federalism, small government, low taxes, strong national defense, basically all of the groups that got completely alienated from the party under the President Bush, DeLay, Duncan group.

Which is the point.  The Republican Party is a coalition.  It’s a group of groups of people, national security people, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, the christian right, etc. and you get that by empowering and motivating people on the ground.  And that’s what he’s doing, he’s talking to Republicans who got sick of the nonsense and he’s willing to sacrifice his own image to keep the base appeased, they’ll get excited once we start winning again.  He’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing, appealing to the people who used to define the Republican party.

And the Duncan status quo defenders have no excuse for any of this.

The federal government doubled in size, we got engaged in military conflicts that cost thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, and depleted our national security resources in exchange for marginal gains in the Middle East, ran up a gigantic deficit justified by neo-Keynesian supply side garbage and brought about significant inflation in the US dollar, essentially caused the illegal immigration problem through ridiculous farm subsidies that killed their agricultural industry which caused the flooding of their unskilled labor markets and subsequently caused the illegal immigration problem and more notable security problems arising from our border problems, wrote amicus briefs to the Supreme Court supporting the acceptance of ABSURDLY broad interpretations of the commerce clause and people tried to tell us that that was conservative?  Not only that, but we were somehow less conservative if we didn’t buy that garbage?

So forgive me, I don’t buy the crocadile tears of the RNC members for one second.  They are the kings of the gladhanders in this ridiculous network that somehow came to actually believe that it was possible to still be a conservative while campaigning on vastly expanding the scope of the Department of Education bereaucracy.  Either they don’t know what conservatism is, they don’t care about conservatism, or a little from column A, a little from column B.

It’s the damn Mike Duncan people.  When Michael Steele was running for RNC Chair, some of his initially stiffest competition was the incumbent Chairman Mike Duncan.  Despite having lost 15 Senate seats, over 50 seats in the House, and completely sabotaging the John McCain campaign the State Party Chairs were content to be obsequious, deciding they’d rather maintain their relative positions in the party over being in a majority party, and 52 of them voted for Duncan on the first ballot .  These are the same damn people who are trying to cause problems for Steele now.  They don’t give a damn about the party or the principles behind the party, they care about getting their pictures taken with famous people and getting treated as if they were important.

And then the populist outrage against him on abortion and whether homosexuality is natural, those are both ridiculous points of criticism.  He’s pro-life, the party is pro-life, so cut the shit with the damn rent seeking. And on the question of whether homosexuality is natural, give me a break, party line issues on science and psychology?  It’s things like that that make us look stupid, far worse than Michael Steele’s slang ever could.

But whatever.  The past has been bad, and people are going to be pissed off about what happened for any variety of reasons.  What we have to do now is get the band back together.  We’re on a mission from God.

So anyway, Michael Steele rocked it in a speech a couple days ago:

and then today it came out that the idiotic “Democrat Socialist Party” isn’t going to happen , so things are picking up.  We might actually have a conservative party in this country once again.

Rabble.

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