Within one month, Michael Steele is likely to be dealt a defeat. Within one month, Michael Steele is likely to resign. The Republican National Committee is trying to send Mr. Steele the hints, and Mr. Steele has been trying to send back hints that he intends to stay right where he is. However, the RNC Chairman has ceded a lot of ground. There have been many, especially those aligned to Chairman Dawson of the Republican Party of South Carolina(a rival of Steele's for the Chairmanship), rumored to have been preparing to oust Michael Steele. Now some of them are outright trying to remove the greatest power that an RNC Chairman has from Mr. Steele; his purse-strings.
The special meeting of the full Republican National Committee in May should be plenty amusing.
Michael Steele is so very likely to become the latest political-victim of conservative rage. Their anger has turned on Specter and the other Obamacans for, well, abandoning the party that tried kicking them out for being too moderate. The far-right anger has turned on President Bush and his "big government administration", despite their having spent 8 years as self-described foot-soldiers of George W. Bush. The far-right anger is just a cover to hide the inner-anguish of the conservative movement's depression. Their party is shrinking and projected to continue shrinking. Their last standard-bearer made Jimmy Carter look like Eisenhower. They have no obvious leaders capable of anything that is both transformational and that is acceptable to the conservative movement.
After Specter's jumping-of-the-ship, I wondered if conservatives could maybe start to see the lessons that they should have learned. They obviously did not. If they had learned, they would not be poised to replace the first African-American RNC Chairman with a man who became a Republican because he didn't want to have to go to school with black children. Then again, perhaps there are some rationalists left in the RNC who can warn them that the country doesn't think like the deep South.
I have said this before and I'll say it again; 2012 is likely to be a Goldwater-year when the far-right conservatives get their choice, and 2016(starting perhaps with 2014's midterms) is going to be a chance for moderates to try and retake the Republican Party. Until then, the Republican Party is a flailing snake eating at its own rattling tail.