Wasn't McCain enough?

Further proof that the Republican Party in its present form is no longer worthy of support: Michael Steele's interview with GQ. The party leadership has turned from conservatism, and no matter how much Mr. Steele says that Ronald Reagan influenced him, he and those like him left me out in the cold a long time ago.

Can this guy possibly be serious? I mean, we can agree to disagree on some minor points, but LIFE? You know, that pesky little thing to which the authors of our Founding Documents recognize our unalienable right? I appreciate Mr. Steele's support for states' rights, selective as it may be in this matter, but if a true conservative believes in the power of a federal system at all, he should believe that the federal government must protect that most basic right whence springs our ability to exercise the others!

The Republican Party needs to ask itself whether the RNC is an educational tool used to promote ideas or if it is simply a sales organization. I realize that practicality dictates the need to attract voters, but the cost is too great if their commitment to the Constitution and property rights is completely discarded. In the political arena as in any other, the complete abandonment of principle in the pursuit of power is nothing more than a blatantly self-serving act that should be recognized for what it is and fought accordingly.

Mr. Steele can talk about misunderstandings, commiserate with his fellow Republican statists about the unfairness of the media, and focus on the big-tent approach of his "hip-hop" agenda, but a hipster aura and apologetic statements made after the fact don't compensate for an inability to articulate beliefs (if he truly has any) and a general lack of competence in leadership. As it stands, the Republican Party has turned into a bunch of whores, and Michael Steele is their latest pimp.