The RNC has officially scrapped the much-ridiculed proposal to call for the Democratic Party to change its name to the “Democrat Socialist Party,” which was originally set for a vote today.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele had opposed this cartoonish proposal from the start — and in a sign that he is now exercising genuine leadership at the GOP, he has negotiated a much tamer change in language that simply calls on Americans to reject the Democrats’ “socialist” agenda.
This deal had first been announced last night, and was formally carried out today.
Late Update: The resolution’s original sponsors are still claiming victory in that the proposal generated publicity and educated the public. RNC member David Norcross of New Jersey said the effort here was to raise the public’s awareness of the Democratic agenda, so that the people can be “properly fearful.”
