As Yogi Berra once said, “when you come to a fork in the road, take it” and that best describes the “new” direction that the GOP will be pursuing.

From an article written by Perry Bacon, Jr for the WaPo:

RNC chairman Steele has outdone himself this time.   Steele, speaking to the 168 members of the Republican National Committee, continued his fiery rhetoric in the last few weeks against the president, who he said “could not be more partisan.” He accused Obama of “yielding his legislative agenda almost entirely to radicals like Nancy Pelosi” and called Obama’s first 100 days a “reign of error.”

“We’ve seen strategists writing memos and doing briefings urging that Republicans avoid confronting the president,” he said in a speech at a convention center in Oxon Hill. “Steer clear of frontal assaults on his administration. They suggest we should go after Nancy Pelosi, whom nobody likes, or Harry Reid, who nobody knows”

“The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over,” Steele says. “It is done, we have turned the page, we have turned the corner. No more looking in the review mirror.”

So the plan is to start attacking the prez on all fronts.  Is that a wise choice?  The prez has a 70% approval rating and the people may not be receptive to such attacks.  I know the party is struggling to find its footing, but is this a wise choice?  Why not formulate some new ideas on the economy and such to present to the people and let them, see that the GOP is truly a viable party?

And all out frontal assault is about as wise as just saying NO to everything.  Not sure that this decision was thought out completely before it was offered to the members of the RNC.  Or if the political fallout was taken into serious consideration.