Michael Steele the GOP’s Latest Invisible Man

(Black America Web) — Ed Rollins is right. Michael Steele has been a disaster. Rollins, a Republican Party strategist who managed Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign, recently just came right out and said on “Face the Nation” that Steele, the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee, had failed to raise money and articulate a message, and that whatever he does between now and November will be largely irrelevant. But even though Steele hasn’t quite worked out as a black first for a party whose policies have, at least for the past three decades, conspired to keep most blacks last, it’s kind of hard to blame him for not being able to articulate a message – when that message continues to be hijacked and honed by extremists in the party.

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