Posted by
Billy on Friday, January 30, 2009 6:54:50 PM
The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new party," declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov.
Michael Steele. Republicans chose Steele over four other candidates, including
former President George W. Bush's hand-picked GOP chief, who bowed out declaring, "Obviously the winds of change are blowing." (
A REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN )
Steele, an attorney, is a conservative, but he was considered the most moderate of the five candidates running.
He was also considered an outsider because he's not a member of the Republican National Committee. But the 168-member RNC clearly signaled it wanted a change after eight years of Bush largely dictating its every move as the party's standard-bearer.
(I believe Steele will give the GOP what it needs far as showing people of different races, cultures can be part of the GOP while holding on to the old values that have made many vote GOP.)