4um: Steele Asks RNC Staff to Resign

Fox News is reporting that Michael Steele has requested the resignations of the ENTIRE RNC STAFF (about 100 people). He wants to rebuild from scratch.

The story was based on a blog post written last night by Politico's Ben Smith.

It is still unclear whether or not staffers will be allowed to re-interview for their positions (my guess) -- or if this is, indeed, a real purge.

If there was ever a doubt his election represented a revolutionary shift in direction, this move would certainly put an end to that debate.

The reformers won, and -- unlike Obama who seems to have used "change" as merely an slogan -- Steele (so far) appears to be "governing" (inasmuch as an RNC chairman can "govern") -- as a true change-agent.

By the same token, one hopes Steele will not throw the baby out with the bath water. Clearly there are some good people working at the RNC -- and losing institutional knowledge is painful. My guess is some staffers may retain their positions.

Of particular interest to bloggers will be the fate of the RNC's tech-guru Cyrus Krohn. Several conservative blogs, including RedState, have urged Steele to retain him.

Update: The Hill has more.

Tap an old time conservo like direct mail titan Richard Viguerie as the ideological spirit guide for the party and apologize profusely for the criminal misdirection of the GOP when steered by Israel-first Jews instead of American Christians, neocons instead of paleos, big govt-treasury mining imperialists instead of Ron Paul.

If he did that then that doesn't particularly inspire my confidence, and I'm not real crazy about a devout Christian in leadership unless he/she supports the principle of separation.

Others may not trust a candidate who compromised on any candidate (like Giuliani, Trent Lott, etc.,) and that would also include me, which is why I can't be a Republican true believer.

But, since there's no chance of finding anyone who is a paleocon who hasn't compromised (including Lew Rockwell) if I as an outsider were to make recommendations to them I'd say, "Go and sin no more, and pick someone like Viguerie who has these things to his credit:"

When Viguerie spoke at a conference of Libertarian Party state chairs in March 2007 [1], he stated the following about the 2006 United States general elections: "Whenever conservatives are unhappy, bad things happen for the Republican Party."

In 2007, Viguerie co-founded the American Freedom Agenda, described as "a coalition established to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the executive branch". [2]

On January 15, 2008, Christian Newswire reported that Viguerie had announced the launch of http://www.UltimateRonPaul.com, stating that "Ron Paul is truly a principled conservative". [3]