Should Steele Stay or Should He Go?
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Second, it’s all well and good to not underestimate the difficulty of unseating Steele, but short of that, how exactly does Varadarajan expect to effectively “muzzle” him for the next six months? How are you going to forbid him from issuing press releases, scheduling interviews, or making speaking engagements?
Third, we’re already experiencing “damaging political theater” thanks to Steele. We can say we don’t want more of it right now, but that’s the thing about gaffe-prone politicos: you never know when they’re going to make their next mess. While a campaign to unseat Steele would make the GOP seem chaotic to some, it could very well put some teeth behind empty rhetoric about how “Republicans lost their way” by signaling to others that they’re actually serious about getting their house in order and holding their own accountable.
Regardless of what happens, we should be careful about inferring too much significance. Michael Steele isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom. The real problem is that the Republican Party all too often settles for mediocrity, and shows little indication of understanding what to look for in choosing leaders. Ending Steele’s tenure as chairman would be a good thing, but a miracle cure it would not be.
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Hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College. He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online.
