{"id":4325,"date":"2009-03-04T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:21:48","slug":"open-letter-to-michael-steele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4325","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Michael Steele"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: Michael Steele<\/p>\n

From: Mitch Berg<\/p>\n

Re: Limbaugh<\/p>\n

Chairman Steele,<\/p>\n

For starters, congrats on winning the chairmanship.<\/p>\n

In addition; my condolences on winning the chairmanship.<\/p>\n

A while ago, I introduced a metaphor I like a lot – the “Tug of War” <\/a>– to describe politics at this stage of the race. There are two (or more sides) to every question, and each is a tug of war, and each of our job is to get as many people pulling our way as possible, knowing we’ll likely never pull the other team into the mud pit, but we’ll at least pull the rope – the issue – far enough to our side to make us happy enough which, in a representative democracy (either a government or a party) is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n

Rush Limbaugh represents a lot of us who are pulling to the right.\u00a0 You represent a lot of people who pull in different directions on a lot of issues – the fiscal right, perhaps, but the social center on a lot of issues, including some on which you and I disagree.<\/p>\n

So don’t yap about Limbaugh pulling to the right; that’s his job<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rather, try to sell the rest of us on what your vision is<\/em>.\u00a0 Convince us.\u00a0 Show us where you have a better plan<\/em>.\u00a0 Because your last couple of predecessors sure didn’t do it.\u00a0 The burden of proof is on you to show where you and your office have a better idea, especially inasmuch as Rush and all of us conservatives represent ideas that have <\/em>worked, and a time that the party did<\/em> conquer all in its path.\u00a0 Rush – and all of us – represent the Gingrich and Reagan eras; too many of the hamsters we have in office now represent the Trent Lott era.<\/p>\n

But this is your chance, Mr. Steele.\u00a0 Show us what you’ve got.\u00a0 Take the good ideas from the right – and there are an awful lot of them – and convince us on the rest.<\/p>\n

You have a little less than a year before the race to contest Congress heats up again.<\/p>\n

Don’t screw up – and by that, I mean “don’t do what the last two rounds of elections have done – whiz on conservatives”.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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