Time for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to Hit the Road

 Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is up for reelection, and his time is up. He rode the TEA Party wave to huge Republican wins nation wide, and acts like he was instrumental in it.  Republicans gained 63 House seats with one race still being counted, six Senate seats, ten governorships, and control of several additional state and local houses, senates, councils, mayors and the rest. It happened in spite of him.

Steele has run up expenses, maxing out the $15 million he was given to work with. He started his term with a $23 million surplus, all if it gone and now the RNC is in the hole. There was $79 million raised between election cycles and that’s gone too. A lot of political donations this past cycle went to TEA Party’s, directly to the candidates themselves and conservative third party groups such as Freedomworks and Prosperity for Americans.

I had no objections to him initially, but when he backed down on Jurassic Press attacks and lies on Rush Limbaugh, and his whining about how tough he has it because of his race, he lost me. There were several interviews where he accepted the Liberal premise of questions. That’s weak. Bash ‘em back, show them for the biased, intolerant, liars they are.

He’s played fast and loose with money raising laws for political campaigns making it look like more money was donated than actually was. In Michigan for example, he got the State GOP to donate to the National GOP but gave the money back to the State GOP. Apparently more money can be given to the National level, but the National folks can put however much they want into to local level, or something like that; all to make it look like more money was raised there than was. I’d try and explain it better, but I can’t get my mind around such deviousness. I want an RNC chairman that is able to raise money without deviousness.

Then there was the sex club scandal. RNC operatives using RNC campaign money to visit a strip club, and had to fire his chief of staff when caught. Then it turns out that his “special assistant for finance”, Neil Alpert, was using the RNC debit card on lots of other stuff too. The Republicans attempt to behave according to a moral compass, and when they don’t it’s glaring, and gives the political opposition, that has no moral compass, to be able to cry “hypocrites!”.

There was his interview on “Good Morning America” where he said he and Obama have it tough because they’re black. This was part of his reasoning for attacks on him regarding the (poor) job he was doing as RNC chair. Even the puffy pasty dough boy, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, had it right when he said at the time, “I think Michael Steele’s problem isn’t the race card; it’s the credit card.”

Not only have the Republican base reduced their donations to the RNC, but major donors have too. According the Federal Election Commission, eight or more big time donors in the year leading up to this last election have been giving directly to candidates or third party conservative groups.

Blowing a surplus budget plus all donated money to the RNC, staff spending money on stuff they shouldn’t be, him flying around in private jets and being chauffeured in limos, staying at five star hotels, not defending strong conservative voices, weakly accepting the stupid lying alleged reporters attack questions, and more, all speak the reason why this guy most go.

The RNC needs a spokesman that can generate donations, bash the Jurassic Press and expose them for what they are, control his/her and staff’s spending, and clearly explain conservative principals and programs.