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I see this as a power struggle ... but I don't see how Steele can win.

Michael Steele was elected as Chairman of the Republican National Committee - a Leader of the Republican Party.

However - most Modern Republicans see Rush Limbaugh as their Ideological Spokesperson ... a veritable MESSIAH. They quote him, they employ his talking points in debate, and they listen to his programs in the same way they attend church.

While Steele seems like an honest, good person ... it is this very quality that makes him out to be not a good fit for a Political Party that gleefully embraces Torture, Welfare for the Wealthy, and Keeping Children from getting Health Care.

For THAT kind of agenda, you need a truly depraved hypocrite who can communicate cynicism with just the right delivery that The Modern Right Wing in America finds entertaining.
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But I wish Michael Steele all the best.
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People like Jindal and Steele were boosted as a way to improve the Republican image with minority voters. This is an interesting corner they've painted themselves into. If they come down too hard on Steele they risk alienating people that they are so eagerly trying to recruit. Yes it's true, Republicans really don't want honest candidates. They want a guy that will toe the party line and use the talking points. For these politicians to cross that line spells trouble for them. Let's see how they handle this. I wonder if they can get Steele to apologize to Limbaugh as other Republican politicians have in the past.

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At least the Republicans aren't either led around by the nose or told they will be punished if they disagree.

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Don't pass up the comments that the author posted coming from right wing sites. He posted 6 pages of them with updates. Here's one that shows a glimpse of what Republicans are saying about Steele:
"Steele really disappointed me in his comments. I wonder if he is revealing his deep hidden allegiance to obuma’s skin in the game loyalty of race?????

Rush’s comments were clear, consise and to the point. Rush said what the Repubs are too, scared to say "the truth."

In summation, steele is just "another got skin in da game rino brother."

This is a Republican speaking about Steele on the forums.

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"...and maybe doing something about our open primary system and fixing it so that Democrats don’t nominate our candidates..."

OMFG! He has the NERVE to say something like this after his 'Operation Chaos' where he urged his listeners to register as Democrats so they could vote for Hillary in the primaries in order to keep the party from uniting?

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Limbaugh had this to say in response to Steele's statement.
"I'm not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don't want to be," he said. " I would be embarrassed to say that I'm in charge of the Republican Party in the sad-sack state that it's in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it's in, I would quit. I might get out the hari-kari knife because I would have presided over a failure that is embarrassing to the Republicans and conservatives who have supported it and invested in it all these years."
“I hope the RNC chairman will realize he’s not a talking head pundit, that he is supposed to be working on the grassroots and rebuilding it and maybe doing something about our open primary system and fixing it so that Democrats don’t nominate our candidates,” Limbaugh said, his voice rising. “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.”
"You know who needs a little leadership? Michael Steele and those at the RNC,” Limbaugh said, part of an unusual counter-attack against the elected head of the GOP."

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) who last month took a shot at Limbaugh to POLITICO only to appear on his program the next day and plead momentary “foot-in-mouth disease.

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