Is It Time For Michael Steele to Resign as Chairman of the RNC?

  When Michael Steele became the chairman of the GOP there was optimism all around. We had a person who was supposed to be a voice, a leader of the conservative movement. But so far he has been a disappointment. Is it time for him to resign?

  Last week while on Face The Nation Michael Steele called Rush Limbaugh “ugly” and “incendiary.” Later that week, when Rush Limbaugh predictably attacked him, Michael Steele apologized to Rush, claiming that he didn’t articulate his point properly.

  This made Michael Steele look two faced and weak. While on one show he said one thing but then when the pressure mounted he claimed he was misunderstood. It makes him look as though he will say whatever he thinks the particular audience wants to hear.

  More recently he claimed that he believes that abortion is an individual choice. He made this claim while doing an interview with GQ magazine. These latest comments have really drawn the ire of social conservatives in the party and once again Michael Steele was forced to backtrack. Again he was misunderstood. He later reversed his position on this issue, once again he looks two faced and weak.

  Here are just a few of the comments that pro-life Republicans are now making about Michael Steele:

Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling, and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grass-roots politics,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee

For Chairman Steele to even infer that taking a life is totally left up to the individual is not only a reversal of Republican policy and principle, but it’s a violation of the most basic of human rights — the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Chairman Steele needs to reread the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and the 2008 GOP Platform,” said Blackwell. “He then needs to get to work or get out of the way

  But the list of complaints goes on and on, those are but a few. The Republican party has been split for about two years I would say. As President Bush became more unpopular the party began to drift, Republicans were trying to separate themselves from the president and they lost their way. But then along came the new president with his outrageous spending and the Republicans had an issue they could rally around and come together on.

  Just when it seemed that Republicans were uniting against President Obama’s spending and making headway with the American people, Michael Steele had to open his mouth and put an end to it.

  Because of his comments about Rush Limbaugh we now have every Republican being asked whether they agree with Rush Limbaugh, as if that should be a vital topic. We now have Republicans splitting apart once again as some of them come to Steele’s aide while others distance themselves from him.

  Republicans need to get a message, a united message, and they need to sell it to the American people. If Michael Steele cannot unite the party than he needs to step aside before it is too late.

  It doesn’t matter whether Michael Steele was taken out of context or whether he thought that he could say one thing to one audience and another to a different audience. The end result is the same. Michael Steele so far has hurt the Republican party. He has split the party when they need to be, and seemed to be about to, unite.

  Republicans need to make their choice soon. Do they stick with Michael Steele and hope that he gets the Republican message out there and properly articulated or do they cut their ties now before it is too late. If they are going to make a change it needs to be done immediately, to delay would only bring embarrassment down the line. Sure making a change now would also be embarrassing but at least there will be time to repair the damage.

   The decision needs to be made right now,it must be done swiftly. Let us just hope that whatever they do it is the right decision.

  The Republican party needs a strong, articulate leader who is unwavering in his, and the party’s, beliefs. The Republican party needs a leader who will stand strong no matter what attacks are made against him, a man who will remain firm in the beliefs of the party regardless of what might be said about him or the party. If Michael Steele is not that man than he needs to step down now. If he is that man, and I hope that he is, he needs to start acting more like a leader and less like a man who will say whatever he feels the audience wants to hear. We already have one of those in the White House.