What Steele Should Have Said to Matt

Rive gauche - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online:

"Twenty-five million people listened to Rush last week. Millions of them have listened to him for 20 years. That makes them 'hard-right' extremists.

Whereas being one of a few thousand who listened to Jeremiah Wright every week for 20 years makes you a mainstream moderate."

I realize that it's not always easy to come up with stuff like this while under fire, but Michael Steele needs to take the fight to them. It was devastating for him to be apologizing for Rush Limbaugh. It was also devastating for him to tacitly agree with this statement by CNN personality, D.L. Hugely:

“The tenets of the Republican Party are amazing and they seem warm and welcome. But when I watch it be applied -- like you didn’t have to go much further than the Republican National Convention....It literally look[s] like Nazi Germany.”

I worked for Mr Steele's senate campaign and have a high regard for him, but if he can't do better than he did this past week, he should pack it in. We need a leader, not an apologist-in-chief.