First of all, stop trying to be cool, or hip, or dope, or whatever the kids call it when you try to act like you're all that. Because you are not any of those things. You are a Republican. Act like one.
Secondly, I saw you attempt to converse with Chuck D the other night. If you're going to speak with anyone via a media format that could potentially be viewed by millions, do your homework. Don't assume that just because the person you're speaking with is a rap music icon, and an African-American, that he is from "the projects," as you put it. While you were speaking, Chuck was giving you the stink-eye, and with good reason. As Chuck told you, he is from Long Island, not from the projects. Mr. Steele, Chuck D made you look stupid. Because you were.
Lastly, here's the the most important thing. Two things actually: 1. Grow a set and stop apologizing to Rush Limbaugh. 2. Repudiate Limbaugh as the vile hate monger that he is.
The No Apologies part should be easy. Just stop doing it, and tell every member of Congress to not apologize either if they are critical of Limbaugh. It's a free country, they should have the right to be critical of anyone they choose.
The Repudiation thing will be a little trickier, but it is a must. America is a different country than it was even a year ago. The election of Barack Obama to the presidency proved that. We are a nation tired of political rancor, and we yearn for political leadership, and we yearn for something, anything, positive. Just saying no to everything the president wants, and being divisive is not what the American electorate wants.
We are now, I think, more than ever a nation of moderates. We no longer care so much, if we ever did, about ideology as we do about effectiveness. We want results. The nation at large is past the whole notion of only conservatives can be right, or only liberals can be right. We don't care so much about the size of government, or whether it's red or blue, as long as the government is effective and efficient.
Mostly, we are past wanting to hear the kind of negativity that Rush Limbaugh spews out on a daily basis. Wanting the president to fail to satisfy one's political needs and beliefs is not what the normal, average, every day American wants. The average American wants the president to succeed, because if he succeeds, we all do. I didn't vote for Obama, I don't care for him too much, but I want him to succeed. At the very least, I want some of his ideas, like supporting alternative energy sources and rebuilding the nation's fraying infrastructure to succeed. It's what's good for America.
Limbaugh may very well motivate the conservative base like no other person can. So what. That base is not big enough on it's own to get a Republican in the White House in 2012, and Rush is not the kind of guy who will win over moderates, independents, and swing voters, and you need voters from each one of these groups to win the presidency. He is a polarizer, not a uniter. Until you, Mr. Steele, and all Republican politicians understand this, you will be out of power. Remember, if Limbaugh's listeners actually translated to votes, John McCain would not have won a primary, nor would he have been the Republican presidential candidate.
Until Republicans thoroughly and unanimously denounce the hateful Limbaugh, the party of Lincoln will be as dead as he is.
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