Michael Steele

Touchy Subject: Steele Slammed For Criticizing GOP's Southern Strategy

Zachary Roth | April 23, 2010, 1:16PM

RNC Chairman Michael Steele

Michael Steele's charge this week that the GOP's southern strategy has "alienated" minority voters may not have provoked as many headlines as a trip by young Republicans to a lesbian bondage club. But in the long run it could cause just as much trouble for him.

During a speech at DePaul University, Steele declared:

For the last 40-plus years we had a "Southern Strategy" that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, "Bubba" went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.

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David Frum

Days After Lambasting GOP, Frum Leaves AEI

Zachary Roth | March 25, 2010, 6:54PM

David Frum

David Frum, the conservative pundit and former Bush White House speechwriter, has left his perch at the American Enterprise Institute -- with some observers wondering whether the move was triggered by his recent criticism of the GOP.

Today, Frum posted on his blog a note he had sent to AEI President Arthur Brooks:

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