David Frum sounds off on Conservatives today to defend Steele saying:

“He’s not a black face, he’s just a different face,” he said. “We need different kinds of people. It isn’t ‘you put a black face on the party and you get black voters.”

Ehh… Yeah, they don’t need a different face they need a different approach and I don’t think that Michael Steele understands that. The whole party is so convinced that if they can just identify the right person, the Conservative Obama, to lead the charge that they’ll be ready to launch their come back. The truth is that their problem rests in their inability as a party to make room for multiple ideas. As Frum notes, their stance on abortion is nonnegotiable and although that appeals to certain people, it also excludes others. The Party seems to scoff at debate- I saw Tom Delay recently reject the notion that David Brooks was a “real” conservative simply because they held different positions.

Michael Steele is guilty of propagating this kind of strategy when he suggests that the GOP Senators who voted for the stimulus are going to get less funding from the RNC…

You can put lipstick on a pig…