Barack Obama's intellect has struck again. Our new president's strategy to marginalize the GOP, Rush Limbaugh and wingnuts just entered the last phase.
There was a reason Obama told Republicans to stop listening to the Limbaugh during his first week in office. He knew then that Limbaugh couldn't resist responding. He also knew then that Rush would defend his self-appointed position as the party's leader. He also knew that by suggesting that Limbaugh was the leader of the Republican party, Michael Steele, the RNC's token, also couldn't resist protecting his manhood by proclaiming himself the leader of the Republican Party.
Watching this play out between Steele and Limbaugh will be priceless.
Join me below for the "rest of the story," a line made famous by Paul Harvey who died last week.
Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. No one in the GOP dares to challenge nor question him. If they do, they return to the scene of the crime to apologize for fear of a Limbaugh radio campaign to castrate them. Ask Phil Gingrey of Georgia. And notice how no elected GOPer criticized Bobby Jindall's national television disaster. Limbaugh dared anyone to critique Jindall at their own peril.
Enter Michael Steele whose ego just couldn't take anymore "dissing" as the head of the RNC. Michael Steele is not and will never be the "leader" of the RNC or Republican Party. That's not why they elected him. Steele was a me-too election. All the talk about hip hop and urbanizing the GOP was a lame attempt at broadening the appeal or the GOP. NOT. You don't relate to blacks by using urban slang. Hey, Mike, tell Michelle Bachman to shut up with the "you be da man" crap.
Steele's election was supposed to project a phony inclusive agenda to attract African Americans and other groups to the party. The GOP still doesn't get. It's not the people, it's the message of its membership that keeps others away.
No clear thinking person among African Americans and other groups attended last week's CPAC, the 21st century version of a KKK rally. When certain whites chose to speak about the President of the United States in ways that demonstrate total disrespect for the office and the man elected to the office, other groups will not feel welcomed or be welcomed.
In the middle of the hype about the CPAC conference leading up to the puppetmaster's keynote ramblings, Obama reset the trap about Limbaugh via Emmanuel. Now it was Steele's turn to respond. Steele, who had the guts to go on television and proclaim that he is the leader of the Republican Party, cut the strings of the puppetmaster. The puppetmaster came unglued today telling Steele that he is NOT the leader of the Republican Party.
Now what we have is an African American in the RNC taking on the white establishment's leader. Talk about political theater. Steele might call himself the leader and wear his GOP pin with pride. The leaders of the GOP will never accept him as their "leader." He is a prop, an extra, in the play.
Hey, Mike, it's your skin not the pin. You have now cut the strings from the puppetmaster. Good luck with that!