First African American Chair of the RNC!

Hopefully Steele will be able to rebuild the party and move away from the disastrous neoconservative policies that it has supported in the past decade. He really needs to also open his arms to the true conservatives- those who believe in the anti-war, free market roots of the Republican party.

There's definitely going to be a gap open somewhere. It should be obvious to them that they can't keep moving toward the religious right. They are either going to have to become more moderate or they will never regain power.

To be honest, I never understood the focus on winning and holding the religious right. I saw that as McCain's biggest mistake. I doubt that the religious right would flip over to vote Democrat. Why wouldn't you try to sweep the votes at the center?

I'm also glad to hear that he seems to be a good man for the job. I was a little worried when I read the title that they just picked an African American because of Obama. Reading his biography shows a lot of experience with finance and business though. That should come in handy and put him in a good spot for across the aisle politics (fingers crossed).

The thing is that once they jump on the religious bandwagon, they have to stay for the ride even if it's getting rough as once they hop off, they will be looked as a traitor from the perspective of their religious supporters, and the non-religious supports will just see them as pure fraud, avoiding them even more.

As for this man, I don't know much about him to be honest, but if he has a good history, then that's good that he's gone up the ranks. Let's just hope he doesn't abuse it..

True. I just don't think that it would really hurt them much when it came to votes. The religious crowd would tough it out because the Republicans would still be closer to what they wanted. A slow move over shouldn't raise to many flip-flop alarms either.