Michael Steele
Michael Steele will stay on to finish his term as RNC Chairman, despite massive condemnation and calls to resign for saying that the war in Afghanistan was “Obama’s war” and “basically lost.”
Instead of kicking him out, The San Francisco Chronicle reports that GOP elders will be working around him until he finishes out his term in January.
“Republicans have sort of put together a mode of operation for this election cycle that does not put the RNC chairman in a central role,” former GOP Rep. Vin Weber of Minnesota said. “That’s not the optimal way of handling things. But in a very strange way that gives him some protection because there’s no urgency to replace him – no matter how grave of a misstep he made.”
Others say that, should Steele seek a second term as RNC Chairman in January, he would have a very difficult campaign.
Timing has a lot to do with the decision, as crucial mid-term elections are now only four months away. With opinion polls predicting a Republican sweep in Congress and possibly the Senate, Party leaders do not want to mess with a good thing.
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