What Did He Expect

Recently Michael Steele, Chairman of the RNC and the first African American in the role, took on Rush Limbaugh. To put it simply, he got his lunch ate. Below is an excerpt to a MSNBC post. 

*** Steele’s rocky start: Steele’s apology yesterday was the second time he has said something during his month-old chairmanship that he has had to backtrack from. Earlier, in a FOX interview, Steele suggested that the three Senate Republicans who voted for the stimulus -- Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter -- would face primary challenges, and left open the possibility that those three might not receive funds from the RNC. But the committee reversed course, telling First Read: "The RNC has no intention of getting involved in primaries. We work with state parties to elect Republicans and will continue to do that." These reversals come as Steele has raised eyebrows with his language (examples: “off the hook,” saying he wanted to give Bobby Jindal some “slum love”). To put it charitably, Steele has gotten off to a rocky start as RNC chair (as Rush himself said) -- primarily due to a lack of message discipline. And some Republicans might agree with this statement from Limbaugh yesterday: "It's time, Mr. Steele, for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work that you were elected to do instead of trying to be some talking head media star, which you're having a tough time pulling off." 

Hmmm...as Bobby Jindal and Mr. Steele are now realizing, being a person of color who is semi articulate is not the response the Republicans need to fight Barack. In fact, its only reinforcing his strong character and intellect.