Michael Steele Is Happy With The GOP Just As It Is-- But Not All Republicans Are Happy With Michael Steele Where He Is

If you thought Michael Steele was the RNC candidate for change... well he was over at Fox News this morning tap dancing around all the party's problems and diagnosing them as ineffective messaging. "We failed to lead," he reminded the viewers. "The principles we espoused are still true and good today and that's not what people moved away from us for. They moved away from us because we behaved badly. We came to Washington and we became like the people we were sent here to replace. And they replaced us."

They certainly did behave badly but voters turned away from the Republican Party in droves because their policies were toxic and have devastated the country. It wasn't messaging. It was governance. They failed. And Michael Steele, who's never succeeded at anything, is a perfect figure head for a diminishing party turning itself into an extremist regional bastion of hatred and selfishness. Change? He came out strongly against immigrants, strongly against gays, strongly against cooperating with President Obama on solving the economic problems Republican policies have caused and championed obstructionism. "The Republican Congress did a great job in drawing the line. I hope the Senate will follow."

No worries there, most of them have already declared that obstruction, obstruction, obstruction is the name of their game.

But not all Republicans are embracing Steele. The dominant southern racist wing of the party is furious and flipping out. To Hell with the Republican Party screeches former GOP state Rep, David Duke (R-LA) in an article under the banner; "GOP traitors appoint Black racist as Chairman of the Republican Party." Duke, the darling of the David Diapers Vitter wing of the Louisiana Republican Party and once the chairman of the GOP's biggest Republican district in the Bayou State, has dubbed Steel "Obama Junior." Duke took time off from his campaign against Israel and against Jews-- he's an avowed neo-Nazi-- to go bonkers over Steele's elevation as the new face of GOPism.

The Republican Party leadership in its latest act of self-immolation appointed, Michael Steele, a radical Black racist as the leader of the Party.

Steele is a passionate supporter of affirmative action programs that racially discriminate against tens of millions of White Americans. He also supports increased discrimination against White owned businesses in the awarding of non-merit and non-bid minority contracts. He is opposed to the death penalty and thinks that it is disproportionately applied to Blacks even though it is applied to White murderers at 500 percent higher than it is to Black murderers. He is also an advocate of more gun control legislation as well as a draconian, massively increased enforcement of the current laws. He is a servile dog of Israel and has condemned Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorists and yet said not a word of compassion for the 5,000 (half of them women and children) who have been maimed and murdered in Gaza by Israel’s weapons of mass destruction. He says that he would still support the Iraq War and the loss of 50,000 maimed Americans, 4500 killed and trillions in cost, even though the reason for the war (Weapons of Mass Destruction) was proven to be a lie.

Duke is predicting that the Steele chairmanship will "lead to huge revolt among the Republican base. As a former Republican official, I can tell you that millions of rank-and-file Republicans are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore!" He's threatening to put some of the energy, time and resources he normally reserves for his cosmetic plastic surgery treatments to lead that revolt. "Let’s make this abomination in the Republican Party," he shrieks, "the last major party of White redoubt, as a rallying cry of resistance!"

The reality though is that the candidate Duke supported, neo-Confederate Katon Dawson, could only muster 77 votes to Steele's 91. And in the Senate the only incumbents in the David Duke camp are Jim DeMint (R-SC), Jim Bunning (R-KY), David Diapers Vitter (R-LA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Burr (R-NC), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Roger Wicker (R-MS). And the only real hope they have for new blood in their racist caucus would be the very unlikely election of Heath Shuler (D-NC) over Richard Burr next year.