Any moderates in the house? MC Steele wants you to join the Sugar (Capitol) Hill Gang and the fresh GOP house party.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appealed to the political middle Friday to join his party but added that the party itself wouldn’t moderate.
“All you moderates out there, y’all come. I mean, that’s the message,” Steele said at a news conference. “The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front.
“Understand that when you come into someone’s house, you’re not looking to change it. You come in because that’s the place you want to be.”
“That vote on the stimulus bill was the effectiveness of a party call,” he said. “That was a stand-up moment for every Republican. . . . And so, you voted yourself out of the party. We didn’t kick you out.”
Yeaahh, party call, you heard him.
Steele said under his leadership the party would attract more members – including young people – but it would not waver from its commitment to limiting taxes and spending.
“Lift up the young talent that comes to a convention like this on a Friday night,” he told convention-goers. “Don’t waste them.”
Steele – who appeared to be the only African-American in the room Friday – said when he visited a Maryland Republican Party dinner in the mid-1980s he was “obviously a stranger in the room.” But he said he was quickly embraced and rose to county party chairman two years later. From there, he went on to become state party chairman and lieutenant governor.
Steele said Republicans had to return to their roots to rebuild the party.