Steele

Michael Steele's dark night of the soul will never end

What Message? “  Apparently not, reports The Daily Caller's Jon Ward. "There is still no consensus candidate to run against RNC Chairman Michael Steele," the Daily Caller's Jon WardWard writes.  "But that no longer worries Steele's adversaries, who told The DC that they believe the embattled chairman does not have the support he needs to win 85 votes when the RNC's 168 members vote on Jan. 11." For almost a solid week, Republican insiders looked at House returns and possibly thought to themselves, Maybe that whole lesbian bondage thing was good for us. And then they remembered all the outside money, Haley Barbour's baritone, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin's acrylic-clawed cat fight, and Steele posing for those silly pictures with his interns, and the truth hit them like a ton of bricks: Lowered. Expectations.  A month ago most thought he could not be beaten, said one Republican who is involved in the effort to find an alternative. Today most think he cannot win. PRO-FOUND! ”