Nobody Could Have Predicted...

RNC committee woman Dr. Ada Fisher has called for Michael Steele to step down in an email to fellow committee members. Keep in mind that this is a black woman who backed Katon Dawson for the chairmanship in the first place and has been very critical of Steele before and since he won the chairmanship. Still this has gotta sting something awful.

I don't want to hear anymore [sic] language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn't going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish," Fisher wrote.

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Steele appeared over the weekend on Hughley's CNN show, where he fought back against the assertion that radio host Rush Limbaugh was the "de facto leader" of the Republican Party. Steele said he himself was the de facto leader and called Limbaugh an entertainer whose program's content was "incendiary" and "ugly."

On Monday, Limbaugh shot back, saying on his show that Steele was not the leader of the party and that many conservatives would "hang up" when Steele's RNC came calling for contributions.

"Limbaugh has already promised that 'His Conservatives' won't be giving to the RNC. I would suggest to you that that is a real bet," Fisher wrote. "If we can't raise money and continue to allow the alienation of the few varifiable [sic] red states remaining, we are foolish."

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Calling the Limbaugh-Steele clash a "Republican Horror Show," Fisher expressed what some other GOP strategists have until now only said privately: "I have never seen such ineptness in our GOP leadership," Fisher wrote. "And I though we handled the 2008 elections very poorly."

Now again Dr. Fisher has been against Steele for quite some time, still her criticisms resonate with a lot of people including me. Michael Steele was probably at his best on the DL Hughley show when he dropped all of his "hip hop" circa 1985 lingo and just presented himself as he normally is generally bright and articulate. I believe most of the RNC thought that, at least in his manner, THAT was the guy that they elected to lead them back. Still going back and kissing the ring less than 24 hours later may have done irreparable damage to the little bit of street cred he might have ever built up. I guess at this point we should start a betting pool on when Steele will either resign or get fired. I am going to put it at 6 months without putting much thought into it and I am definitely taking the under.