Tag: Michael Steele

David Weigel at The Washington Independent reports on the latest resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, the Indiana RNC member...

He's a liberal good ole boy and a cable TV throw-down artist ready at a moment's notice to go head-to-head with Republican Party boss...

WASHINGTON-- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's speech Monday at the National Press Club was short on details. He said Republicans wanted to address “runaway costs” by perhaps posting the cost of treatments “openly on the Internet,” supporting “bold new incentives” for medical breakthroughs, and ending "life-time health care benefits and insurance for Congressmen who leave their jobs.”

The results of a Pew survey on the "favorability of leading Republicans" published Wednesday suggest that across the general population impressions of Mitt Romney have improved while Sarah Palin remains a "divisive figure." Among the GOP base, though, there's only love for Palin. She is the star. Which means that if the nation was holding a Republican primary today, Palin would be the winkin' and blinkin' GOP candidate for president! Palin-Penry 2010, everybody!

Hard on the heels of the Republican Party’s third straight pasting at the hands of Colorado voters, GOP leaders agree on one thing: It’s time to dig in those heels. The reason Republicans keep losing elections, party members agreed at this weekend’s state GOP gathering, isn’t that voters reject the party’s approach; it’s that Republicans have strayed from their roots.