Michael Steele: "The Republican Party Needs To Kick Social Issues To The Curb"

Social conservatives ain't gonna like this one bit, but I'd love to see a libertarianesque Republican Party that he envisions. From theGrio, about the moderate-conservative former chairman of the Republican National Committee: "Steele says that a party like the GOP, that 'espouses Libertarian freedom' should exit social issues altogether. 'We don’t want the government in your personal business, unless of course we approve,' he says of the party’s current stance on issues like abortion."

More: "'I think we just need to get out of that business altogether and let people work that out with their priests and their rabbis,' he says. 'Where there is crossover, then you take your guidance from the people. You don’t presume and inject your own personal perspective on the matter. And I say that as someone who’s very pro-life.' Steele, who is Catholic, says he has learned from his own church 'how you have these conversations with people. You don’t have this conversation by preaching at people because they stop listening.'"