Steele’s a (Symbolic) Victory for Republicans

The race for RNC chair didn’t garner nearly as much attention as the DNC’s election of Howard Dean in 2005, nor did it tell us anything that profound about the GOP. All of the candidates praised Ronald Reagan and rhetorically distanced themselves from George W. Bush while pledging allegiance levitra online bestellen to the party’s increasingly conservative base.

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That said, the election of former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele was good news for Republicans–and not just because he’s the first African-American leader of a party that badly needs a new public face.

If any rift emerged during the RNC race, it was geographic rather than ideological. Republicans who weren’t from the South resented how their parts of the country increasingly didn’t exist to the leadership of the party. “The fact is that Republicans are becoming dinosaurs in too many states, especially north of the Mason-Dixon line,” wrote Republican strategist John Feehery, a top aide to former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. “We have become a regional party, and the bad news is that we are even losing ground in that one region.”

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