Who's in charge here?

I am not exactly sure why the Republican party decided to choose Micheal Steele as RNC chairman, but I like to think that they got a message from the 2008 election and wanted to move toward the center. Micheal Steele is all that I had hope for, minus cajones.

By now I am sure many of you have heard the words exchanged between Micheal Steele and talking head Rush Limbaugh. To sum it up, the Democratic party has been making accusations lately that the de facto leader of the Republican party is Limbaugh, in response Steele said on Face The Nation that "Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh's whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly."

Limbaugh responded by criticising Steele on his radio show, and criticizing how the Republican Party is supporting the Obama administration.

In a perfect world, Steele would have asserted his dominance over the RNC and the party by rejecting these old fashioned GOP tactics and ushering in an era of honest and respectful opposition. But of course we do not live in a perfect world, and Steele apologized, empowering Limbaugh and the fringe of the party.

This is troubling to me. I know that they are the conservative party and that is their base, but the GOP does not even possess a robust moderate caucus. There is no real equivalent to the Blue Dog Democrats or the DLC. This is not to say there are not some moderates in the party. Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter are two great examples of powerful centrist republicans in the Senate. The GOP is at a crossroads, the far right is fighting their battle, where is the center right?

-This is my opinion-

You can read about this here
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/02/gop.steele.limbaugh/