Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:12:32 PM
Former Lt. Governor Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich have apparently
locked horns in the effort to chair the RNC after two straight
successive national-election fiascos. One might wonder why anyone
would want to take on that challenge; it would take undying optimism,
as well as (dare I say?) hope and audacity. Steele shows plenty of
these qualities in his Wall Street Journal essay today, instructing his fellow Republicans on how to work their way back from the wilderness
Most people have realized that failure, although some still believe that the future of the Republican Party lies in acting even more
like Democrats, and not just on policy. We hear people clamoring for
the same MoveOn/Code Pink tactics rather than fixing our own house and
offering a positive alternative to the liberal government we’ll endure
for the next two years, at least. Steele disagrees
We need to do more than just unite around those principles, although
that will be the start of our recovery. We need to elect
Representatives and Senators who will abide by these
principles, and not those who merely mouth them while raiding the
Treasury for their own personal purposes. For that matter, we need to
abide by those principles in state houses as well. That’s where the
future of the party will get built, and we had better ensure that we
keep the hypocrites out at the ground level if we expect to compete
nationally in the next couple of decades.