GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You're Fired

[kpete]

Source: US News & World Report

GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You're Fired
March 03, 2009 04:34 PM ET | Paul Bedard |

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

Apology to Rush Limbaugh aside, new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is coming under fire from his own GOP troops to shut up and focus on his job of organizing the party and raising money, not fighting with his own political kind. Several Republican advisers to Congress and the previous Bush administration told Whispers that they are worried that the war of words is fracturing the party when it should be healing the division between conservatives and moderates in the wake of the 2008 election.

"What is amazing is that Steele was elected because of his communications skills, and it is those skills that are damaging the Republican Party. Before people begin to completely judge him as worthless, Steele needs to focus and knuckle down on building a strong foundation at RNC so we can begin rebuilding our majority," says a top GOP strategist who has worked for House and Senate Republican leaders. "If his implosion continues, RNC members are likely to call a special session to dump him for an effective chairman. There is not much patience for failure."

Others want Steele to re-evaluate his role in the party. Of concern: For no reason, he is dividing the GOP between conservatives who like Limbaugh and moderates who don't and jeopardizing future fundraising efforts, his key responsibility. "The general sentiment of the conference is that Steele needs to step back and get a handle on his role in the party," says an influential congressional aide. Namely, advisers want him to stay out of the media and focus instead on hiring his staff and revamping the RNC. "He needs to hire staff for the RNC, get the operations up and running, start raising money, and understand that his role is to win elections," says a senior party adviser. Officials are concerned that Steele either doesn't understand his responsibilities or has an inflated vision of his role. "At this point, it is as if he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the job description. An RNC chairman who attacks Republicans and insults conservative icons is about as counterproductive as any Democrat could hope for," says the adviser.

Read more: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/3/3/gop-to-michael-steele-quiet-about-rush-limbaugh-or-youre-fired.html

[tridim]

1. If Steele's job is "to win elections" I think he should stay as long as possible.

Heck, make him the permanent RNC chair.

:rofl:

[saigon68]

30. Steele is Limp Balls Catamite

Nothing more nothing less.

[jpak]

2. GOP: the party of drug-addicted talk radio clowns

:rofl:

[Rashel]

27. The Radio Show Party!!!

[MattBaggins]

43. Thats pedophile drug addicted talk radio clowns, mister

[AnneD]

3. Who da man......

eom

[Bozita]

6. "He be da man!" - Michelle Bachmann (R-some other universe)

[damntexdem]

8. She be da Bachmann.

She help kill da party.

[scytherius]

4. My god this is a dream come true.

I am floored. I knew the GOP was on it's last legs, but to jump in front of a train . . . wow. What is most astounding is who would have thought that the destroyer of the GOP and Conservatism would be Rush Limbaugh. I sure as hell would have taken that bet had someone offered it and given them a mountain of odds.

[damntexdem]

10. They're throwing themselves under the bus as they park it on the tracks ...

in front of the train. LOL!

[Mr. Sparkle]

5. I love this Gop infighting. Time to get a beer some popcorn and put the feet up !!

and lets the games begin !!

[curiousdemo]

20. This show is a

THRILLER!!!!!!! Filled with evil people!!! :evilfrown:

[damntexdem]

7. Keep it up, Michael. Don't let them bluff you.

And ideally, they WILL fire you and further destroy themselves.

LOL!

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. The Steele man has a spine of jelly. The GOP is full of cowards.

I wish them all nothing but agony and misery.

[donco6]

11. They should just choose Limbaugh.

I mean, why not skip the middle man?

[wilt the stilt]

12. Stepin fetch it

now Michael, you be a good darkie. we let you inside.

[Deny and Shred]

24. Ouch, but true. The GOP admits he's a token, in the worst sense.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. Fetch.

[HillbillyBob]

14. I say we give MS a small dull machete. and rash a grapfruit spoon

lock em in a small room with a web cam and we can take bets on who comes out...

[spoony]

That could be the next "Saw" sequel!

:D

[edbermac]

15. Steele can't bite, but at least he can still lick.

:9

[Tempest]

16. This quote says it all

"What's particularly disturbing about this story is that just weeks after Steele spoke about his party's efforts to reach out to minority voters, he became an unfortunate symbol of one of the party's most troubling historic images; the idea of a strong, black man being forced to go hat in hand to a white man, for no other reason than to keep a job that is rightfully his."

- Keli Goff

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/clearly-the-gop-does-inot_b_171384.html

[Politicalboi]

17. Poor Rush

Nobody want s to play with him. LOL

[curiousdemo]

18. So much for hiphop!!!!

LOL!!!!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[happygoluckytoyou]

19. RUSH... STEELE... PALIN...MCCAIN... a braintrust for the ages... MAKING DUBYA LOOK SMART!!!

sorry steele, you are out of lockstep with your party

[sellitman]

21. I wouldn't go that far.

Dubya and smart?

You drinking something better than I?

[Historic NY]

32. you forgot Little Bo Jindal.

[Diclotican]

22. kpete

kpete

Why have no one courage to fight Rush Limbaugh, but rater let that bully play everyone he want to play?.. Why is every republicans afraid of him?.. If you just take the cloth and the acting out of Limbaugh, he is just a school bully, who is acting out what he never was allowed to do home where the parents was holding him under control.. He is just a simple bully... And if you have a case a good case, and are fighting this bully, then the bully tend to go back to what ever stone the bully was living under...

Why is the Republican Party, who once had some gigantic people in their midst, not fighting this bully, even that I am not an american, I know that many moderates in the Republican Party are less than happy with what become of the republican party the last couple of decades.. And who dislike mr Limbaugh far more than they dislike the fact that the democratic party have gained power both in Senate and Congress, and they even have the President.. But they do not DEAR to stand up, and tell the School bully that enough is enough.. It is hard to stand up to the school bully, I have experienced that many times in grade school by myself.. But sometimes you have to stick to what you believe in, and stand up, for the popular school bully who is harassing you, and are given you more hard time than I want to remember.. In the end, the only way is to stand up, and fight the bully.. In 5 grade I did fight the boy who had been hitting on me since I was 7.. And I fight him so well, because I was afraid enough, that the last couple of weeks, before the summer, he was not speaking to me, and more to the point, he was not bullying me.. The same is the case here against mr Limbaugh. The man have to be fight ed, and given a really bashing, it is just and fair to stop this man before he is ruining everything even moderate republicans are working with... And it is also best for everyone else, to fight this evil. He is just a far more barbaric type of Dr Gobbles, who in the 1930s and 1940s was terrorizing Europe for the most part and who also was given the american administration of mr FDR a hard time... When his time was up, he killed himself, his wife, and the children he had with his wife.. Poisoned them and let them die because he was afraid that the allied forces maybe would give him a hard time...

If the american public are ever to be free of mr Limbaugh, they have to fight him, and give everyone who support the action he is given a very hard time and not give him any more time on the air.. He is a bad person, and should be treated as such..
The US have the "right" to say what they want, even if it means that persons like Limbaugh can tell everyone who want to listen to him, the whole yard of hate and dislike for everyone else.. What Limbaugh is, is a racist, and no less than a Nazis, like the Nazis of 1930s.. Yes he speak better english, and he have not yet get over the fine line and speak treason.. But one of this days, when he believe he is safe he will.. And then I hope that the american are ready to stop him, and put him where he deserve to be, and have been for a long, long time in the nearest prison cell, pending a time in court.. Rush is as I see it, he is a traitor.. This type of extremist would never survive long in most European country.. We have some scary experience when it came to this type of extremists, and most europeans tend to doubt this type of persons..

Diclotican

[DebbieCDC]

23. What communication skills?????

[tanyev]

25. Hold another chairman election! Hold another election!

The first one was very entertaining.

:bounce:

[gratuitous]

34. Maybe Norm Coleman will run

And if he loses, he'll drag out a recount challenge until August, at least.

[No Elephants]

38. But, I love Steele for GOP chair, especially now that he and Rush have had a spat.

[Enrique]

40. yep, I'd enjoy another one too

:rofl:

[deacon]

26. Steele's knees really buckled fast when the mighty Rush spoke. Pathetic. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

28. How do you like him now?

:rofl:

FAIL

[City Lights]

39. LOL!

:rofl:

[MadMaddie]

29. Michael Steele "Yes sa masta, I didn't know my place. I do now

thank you for letting me keep my figure head job"!

D.L. Hugely called it....

[Historic NY]

31. "Before people begin to completely judge him as worthless"...

News Flash they already have.

[Laelth]

33. Heal the division between fascists and moderates in the GOP? WHAT moderates?

The GOP doesn't have enough moderates left for Yoda to count on one hand.



:dem:

-Laelth

[Cha]

35. Yeah right..Steele was

"elected because of his communication skills". I call bullshit.

[Monaco3]

36. What does this story tell us about the state of our democracy?

[Solly Mack]

37. Old habits and all that

[goclark]

41. The gift that keeps on giving !

:bounce:

Sarah

Joe the P

John McCain

GW and on and on and on

[havocmom]

42. Is Rush still on Armed Forces Radio? If so, why?

Since he is the boss of the RNC Chair and the head of the neocons, he should not be on Armed Forces Radio!

[Sultana]

44. Such a lovely bunch, eh

Sheeps