Steele: Repugs credibility is shot...drinking that Potomac River water, getting high on power...

"The problem isn't that Americans are less conservative. It's that our credibility with them is shot. It's that we left them along the side of the road on our way to drinking that Potomac River water, getting high on power and influence and forgetting how we got where we are."

-- RNC Chairman Michael Steele, quoted by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/03/quote_of_the_day.html

It is fine to say some of those things, but a remedy and a new direction is not offered in that same sentence, it will just hurt them more.

Keep it up, Steele! We love ya.

I agree..he needs to keep it up and make the Dems turn into Gods in this nation. :D

Thank you for being there when we need you.

Americans are right-center on some issues and left-center on others, depending on the issue. Americans are NOT conservative.

But they're a hell of a lot more tolerant than the 'Lican base.

Most Americans really don't want to legislate their neighbors' morals, knowing that it's a slippery slope: impose your code on the other guy's morals today, have yours imposed upon tomorrow. 'Different strokes for different folks' and 'live and let live' are much more powerful concepts to the average American than 'conservative moral values.'

And far as 'fiscal conservatism' goes, that's never been a genuine 'Lican value. Most of the functioning-opposable-thumb set realizes fiscal conservatism is no more than code for "I've got mine, now fuck off."

and caused a global economic melt down.

If I were you Michael I'd be happy that democracy is still working and we haven't had any show trials.

hormone system.

Steele must not know that. but there are a lot of things Steele doesn't know.

because they are getting younger. The Boomers and their parents are dying off and their children are a lot more liberal than they were.

Get with it.

you need to rap that out to a hip-hop beat.

I keep thinking about his statement about President Obama being the magic negro....Well from were I sit he's going to wish that he was.

GOP thinking. Of course Steele is right that they have lost all credibility... but like all the other bullshit merchants on the right, he refuses to see the true reasons for it. They think it's because Bushco abandoned their principles and they are locked into a blame Bush mentality. But, actually their fall is because many of the tenets of their dogma are simply wrong. Yes, Bushco's failures made it easier for the country to see their bankrupt ideologies for what they are--much like the crash and depression made it easier to see 80 years ago.

Their thinking today is a lot like it was in the 30s, when they blamed Hoover instead of entertaining the possibility that there could be something inherently wrong with their philosophy. They spent decades vilifying FDR and swearing that their ideology was right.

It seems to me that their best chance to regain relevance with the electorate would be to look at their situation objectively and pragmatically. Based on what we are seeing today, it appears that once one has consumed the kool aid of RW dogma, one is incapable of recovery. There is a good chance, barring catastrophic failure of this and future democratic administrations, that history will repeat. It looks like the GOP could be in the wilderness for another 50 years. Good.