No Longer Apologizing

According to this CNN report, Micheal Steel is going to stop apologizing and start kickin' butts.

"The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over," Steele will say in a speech to the RNC's 2009 State Chairmen's Meeting, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. "It is done. We have turned the page, we have turned the corner. No more looking in the review mirror. From this point forward, we will focus all of our energies on winning the future."

Congressional Republicans, who were loyal to President Bush throughout a majority of his two terms, largely sought to break with him in the 2008 elections because he had become a political liability.Over the past few months, GOP lawmakers have acknowledged that the party moved away from one of its core principles of smaller government and less federal spending during the Bush era.

Steele, who was elected to head the party in January, will say the GOP is now "beginning to rally" at the grassroots level after losing control of the White House and additional seats in the Senate and House in November.

Here's to hoping.

I hope he gets Ward Connerly, Thomas Sowell, and Ken Blackwell to help fight back, too.

By the way, is it bugging you the way it bugs me that President Bush had two African-American Secretaries of State (both first male and female) and a hispanic Attorney General and the RNC currently has an African-American as its leader as well as the above named gentlemen as profoundly respected conservative thinkers and yet, and yet, Republicans/Conservatives get no credit for its diversity in the press.

Why is that?