My good pal Michael Steele wants the RNC job
By John Amato Thursday Nov 13, 2008 6:00pm
Newt told Hannity that he doesn't want the job last night, but my pal Michael .Steele does
For Republicans seeking a powerful communicator at the top of the RNC, Steele and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have stood out as possible candidates for the job. Gingrich, however, issued a statement Tuesday disavowing any interest in the chairmanship.
One Republican strategist who supports Steele and expects that the Marylander will pursue the chairmanship called him "one of the best communicators that this party has."
"The grassroots base of the party knows who he is and is enthusiastic about him," said the strategist.
Newt helped McCain lose the election with the drill here drill now nonsense and his awful flip flopping bail out advice to McCain. One wonders if he didn't sand bag McCain so he could run in 2012. If you didn't see my post, I ran into Steele at the Denver airport after the Democratic Convention ended and he was all giggles over the Palin choice for VP. He says he's interested in bringing minorities back into their party.
Steele, who has recently been criticizing the GOP for not doing enough to reach out to minorities, says times have changed and the party needs to adapt. But he said the one thing it can't do is change its principles.
It was their principles that got them in trouble. Anyway, good luck with that one.
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I've heard Mr. Steele on a couple of programs in the last weeks of the campaign season and was struck by his, and nearly all of the other Republican talking heads, to discout or not acknowledge valid points made by the Democrats/left leaning pundits plowing ahead with his perspective hoping that by ignoring any pretenses of having a "discussion" that his position will "win". It pissed me off big time. This guy is a serious windbag. To all republicans...until you accept the rules of common decency for having a legitimate discussion on issues....fuck off each and every one of you.
Steele also made an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher not too long ago, wherein he was smug as possible about how terrible Obama is and how he'll be laughing when McCain is elected (which he treated as an absolute certainty). Someone needs to throw that little gem back in his face.
I personally don't know much about Mr. Steele, but unless the Party makes fundamental changes to some of its core principals, I fail to see Steele or anyone else pulling it out of the gutter soon.
'they want to bring minorities back into their party'. That is rich, since it was repub hate and racism that made minorities reject them in the first place.
Good luck with that one, Mr Steele. You're a day late and a dollar short.
I was stationed in Maryland when Steele ran for Senate and this clown actually tried to fool Democrats into thinking he was a Democrat by putting up signs that said 'Steele Democrat'. The black population of Maryland was not fooled and the did not win the Senate seat. This is something someone should have thrown in the face of the repubs when they claimed black folks only vote for Obama because he's black. Well Steele is black but ask his azz if he got the black vote in Maryland. Hell, ask Lynn Swann if he got the black vote in PA when he ran for Gov. Steele reminds me of rodent not only in how he looks but in how he operates.
This is EXACTLY what I throw back into the faces of those that say black folk vote for black folk because they are black.
There are lots of races across the nation where black repigs run for political office and are REJECTED by black voters because they are republicans!!!
Here's more on Steele's election day trickery:
On board, 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia ate doughnuts, sipped coffee and prepared to spend the day at the Maryland polls. After an early morning greeting from Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s wife, Kendel, they would fan out in white vans across Prince George's County and inner-city Baltimore, armed with thousands of fliers that appeared to be designed to trick black Democrats into voting for the two Republican candidates.
The glossy fliers bore photos of black Democratic leaders on the front. Under the headline "Democratic Sample Ballot" were boxes checked in red for Ehrlich and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele, who were not identified as Republicans. Their names were followed by a long list of local Democratic candidates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Furthermore, on Steele's website, there was no mention that he was a Republican.
Its nice to know the Republicans are gonna counter the election of the first black president by electing the first token GOP head. Powerful communicator my ass.
so sue me.
Hey, Rethugs! Gonna beat the Dems? Choose the first black WOMAN candidate.....
I've seen this guy on TV a few times and he's got to be the most dishonest, disingenuous person I've ever seen just about anywhere. He fits totally in the mould of "Say the exact opposite of the truth and keep insisting on it."
What makes this particularly funny is that he spent a few years studying to be a PRIEST!
He's my state's former lt. gov. I can't stand his smug attitude. Let him lead the RNC, it will be into the ground!
I just want to see the whole GOP gushing - a la Stephen Colbert - about their new black friend 'Michael.' They'll go on about how polite and well-spoken he is, and how even Grandma likes him.
That "drill baby drill" chant at the RNC was basically a bunch of people chanting "We are dumb. We are dumb." Funny, but sorta sad too.
One particular group rethugs can count on: millionaire corporate sobs.
So Amato is palling around with Republicans.
The Repubs probably want Steele at the top of the RNC because they are afraid he may run for... President. The GOP could not handle that.
I think a lot of the Rep talent stayed away from this one as it was a toxic election cycle for them and they knew it.
The way the Rep party and right wing noise machine treat the loser in any election cycle basically ends your career. Even if Palin had been competent they would have thrown her under the bus anyway as a "loser".
They coalesced around the guy they hate, John McCain.
... Steele's former brother in law, Iron Mike Tyson, kicked this tool's ass at least once.
I's jus bein a good house n*gga sur, jus doin da Reepublicuns dirtee work sur. Yes sur massa dat's whut I's a doin!
In comparison to the Palinistas choice; I least I can understand Steele when he speaks (I don't speak Palinese). It's a step in the right direction though packaging the same pig in sugar and lipstick still doesn't make it any less a pig.
With the fringe base elements being so evidently intolerant of minorities and with it's crowned leader Sarita Palon and her blatant race bating during the campaign; it will be hard to believe Steele with his history as a Fox News talking point spinner.
It's the best the GOP has to offer so far. Baby steps.
If they want black idiots representing them , Pick alan keys that guy is such a clown he would turn off whites, blacks , gays etc
ALAN KEYS YOU REPUBLICAN DUMBASSES
http://www.barackobamacans.blogspot.com/
Keyes definately turned off almost everyone in Illinos when he ran against Obama for the Senate. Obama won 79% of the vote. What a lot of people didn't like was that the Repugs imported Keyes from Maryland to run for the US Senate from Illinos.
I hope the RNC does elect Steele for the post. Then it can be shown how "principled" Mr. Steele is. I live just outside PG county Maryland where, if you recall, our former governor Ehrlich, and Steele sent out false sample ballots to the local black community. They hired out of work people from Philly to distribute them days prior to the election. I saw one of the ballots and I was amazed at the audacity it took to print them. It listed the "democratic" candidates with Ehrlich and Steele at the top followed by the real democratic ticket below.
Is this how the principled Steele views the black community? Did he think they would be stupid enough to fall for this trick? Thankfully not, as they were trounced during the election.
I'm from Baltimore City and this guy is a class A jerk-off.
I remember his sleazy tactics. Another oxy-moron (Black Repug).
And should be portrayed as one. And didn't the repubs learn from posting up Palin that just because you use a woman in your campaign doesn't mean women will flock to you. The same thing applies to minorities.
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