Every time I try to give Michael Steele the bnefit of the doubt, he opens his mouth again.
“I don’t see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation,” Steele said. “Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?”
Talking to ABC News later in the day, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee “clarified” what he meant.
“It’s not because of my race, but race is more of a factor than it ordinarily would be — just as it is for Barack Obama,” Steele said in response to a question following up on the Washingtonian piece.
Actually, it could have nothing to do with race and everything to do with outsourcing the RNC to the same consultants who have been bleeding the RNC dry for years. It could have something to do with management styles. It could have everything to do with the Chairman never meeting a shoe he didn’t want to eat.
And as if right on cue, former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, a black man, is rendering moot the “I don’t see stories about the internal operations of the DNC” line.
Wilder is calling on Obama to toss Tim Kaine.
Try again, Michael. Try again.
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Michael Steele needs
jfindl2 (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 10:50PM EDT (link)to shut up and raise money, currently he is failing on both counts. None of the recent RNC chairmen were out in the press half as much as Steele is today. On a related note, the former office holders did raise mountains of cash which Steele currently hasn’t done. I’ll stop criticizing him as soon as he shows the RNC the money.
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lorig77 Tuesday, February 9th at 11:11PM EDT (link)Here’s my 2 cents… Steele is likable but still tone deaf to the grass roots (conservatives) and he just doesn’t get it. Statements like these keep confirming it. The RNC won’t get a dime from me or many people like me until they demonstrate conservative “religion”. Even then, I may have permanently changed to contributing directly to campaigns for people who DO represent my principles and values. As has been said: reap… sow
Hard to raise money
texasgalt (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:47AM EDT (link)when you tell the troops, “Fire me or . . . shut-up.” I am sure that sent everyone rushing to write a check.
Steele is a full of himself:
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9503417
Why are we letting the Democrat media sow division among us?
Beaglescout (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 10:58PM EDT (link)The partisan Democrat media is trying to set the Republican Party against our own chairman. We all have to make sure they FAIL. They are failures at everything they try, after all, other than fooling people into voting for their failures. Let’s deny them success here too.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Very good point, but we shouldn't compromise
lorig77 Tuesday, February 9th at 11:17PM EDT (link)on important core values. It those differences mean we need to separate the wheat from the chaff among our “own”, then I’m all for it. Let’s get the ideas, policies and principles on the table and hash it out. We’re grown ups, we can take it. But agree that allowing our opposition to unnecessarily divide us is a mistake.
I think we’re smart enough to know the difference. Some others, not so much…
You missed my point
Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 12:16AM EDT (link)Steele did not accuse Republicans of attacking him.
The media heard him complaining about being attacked and *assumed* he was complaining about Republicans, because that is the false narrative that Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) continually insist on throwing around like zoo monkeys scatter their own feces. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) always judge people by the color of their skin, the shape of their genitals, and the person they are holding hands with in the privacy of their home. They never judge people by the content of their character. They, Democrats and the media, are racists through and through. They always see race and will always use racial and other categorical distinctions to sow division between Republicans and the groups that Democrats see as their “proper” vassals and servants.
I’m saying that Steele isn’t as at fault here as many Republicans first thought. The coverage is tricky and misleading, and we should be blaming the Democrat Party media for its usual racist dirty tricks. We should not be rushing to throw out our chairman just because the racist media is running a disinformation campaign worthy of the NKVD.
Give Steele a break, already. He may be clumsy, but he is not one of them.
Just for underline the point, let’s think about what this would mean if Steele were *really* accusing Republicans. It would mean that our black chairman bought into the Democrat narrative that all Republicans are sexist, racist, white guys. But how could a black chairman join a party that he thought was full of racist white guys? Why would he do it? Not to advance it surely. The only reason for a black person to join a party that hated him would be to change it top to bottom, as a kind of manchurian candidate. But he was elected to this position. Surely he couldn’t have spent all this time in the Republican party and been vetted again and again while holding views that are so inescapably hostile to the political party that carried him to the Lt. Governor’s seat in VA! Or been vetted by the whole Republican National Committee!
I would submit that his competence may be at question. So too with his ability to keep his head on straight in the face of Democrat Party media mockery, or his ability to fight back against the zoo monkeys. But I don’t think he is a spy for the Democrats.
Do you? Does anyone?
The Democrat Party media is trying to drive a wedge between Republicans and their own party chairman, because it is tactically smart and it’s cruel to Steele, who must be punished because he is a black man who has left the Democrat Party that thinks they have a property claim on him and all other black men. They want him back and he won’t come willingly, so they want to fool us into ejecting him.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
5 nt
Ann_W (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 11:50AM EDT (link)“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.” Ronald Reagan
You're right...
lorig77 Thursday, February 11th at 12:31AM EDT (link)I did miss your point. Sorry about that. I’m still not a Steele fan, although I was never out to get him. But I will agree on this one point. Thank you for taking the time to enlighten me on your perspective.
Katon Dawson
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 11:06PM EDT (link)The RNC let race-driven politics reject Katon Dawson and give us Michael Steele.
Reap…. sow.
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Don't blame Steele. Blame Democrat media -nt-
Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 12:17AM EDT (link)“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
I don't especially blame Steele
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 12:47AM EDT (link)We knew he was (1) squishy, (2) not especially talented or succesful when he was chosen.
I do blame the Republican National Committee itself, who I call the 168. And all the right-side pundits, including ones here at RS, who agitated that we couldn’t pick Katon Dawson, because of that supposed mark on his record.
Boy there’s nothing quite like paying for the sins of others, something Dawson knows all about.
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Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Eating shoes?
shadowtax (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 11:47PM EDT (link)I don’t understand that reference.
Foot in mouth.
NightTwister (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 12:02AM EDT (link)“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti
I wasn't with Steele when..
jeffreyeas Wednesday, February 10th at 4:58AM EDT (link)he started guest hosting for Bill Bennett, leaving himself open for media scrutiny in a way that I don’t think any GOP chairman has.
I wasn’t with him with the Limbaugh comments, or the comments that white Republicans are “scared” of him..
On this, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, considering he’s being scrutinized by a liberal press,had Oreo cookies thrown at him., and had his face drawn in sambo imagery by liberals. liberal hatred for black conservatives runs deep, so I wouldn’t throw him under the bus for simply making the observation that maybe some in the media want to see him resign or fail. The “[white} Republicans are scared of me” line was FAR more disrespectful towards the party faithful, considering the racial makeup of the GOP at present. I mean..white guys elected him, after all and write the checks to keep the house afloat.
How does he square this with our preferred replacement
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 6:59AM EDT (link)being Ken Blackwell?
We expect this crap from Democrats. They know nothing but race and “color of their skin” for motivations. But we are a “content of their character” party. Steele should know better and should be sacked just for attempting this one.
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He would be my preference.
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:11AM EDT (link)After losing the chairmanship to Steele, he has not gone quietly into the night like the others did. He writes and gives his opinion on a number of topics. And does it all without dissing the Republican party or chairman of the RNC.
Now, that’s class.
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Given Beaglescout's comment above....
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:49AM EDT (link)I withdraw my call for Steele’s firing. I would still like to have Ken Blackwell replace him, but I see the Beagle’s point and will not call for his scalp on this issue.
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Steele is incompetent
saltlick Wednesday, February 10th at 8:05AM EDT (link)The partisan Democrat media is trying to set the Republican Party against our own chairman.
Steele has said the GOP is pro affirmative-action and pro-choice. He’s repeatedly raised the race issue — last time saying “some Republicans” were uncomfortable with a black man as chairman.
Maybe Steele is likeable, but he is incompetent in a job that requires he rally and defend the GOP.
I return every RNC fundraising letter with no money included and “Dump Steele” scrawled on the envelope. In the meantime, I spread my donations in Money Bombs to candidates supported by the Tea Party.
And How's the book tour Mikey?
Darin_H (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 8:07AM EDT (link)Writing books instead of doing your job usually gets a man fired.
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
Steele is a good man, but can't control his mouth
RedBeard Wednesday, February 10th at 8:58AM EDT (link)Everyone in politics, particularly in high places, has to be aware of the consequences of any words he might speak. Even if the words are correct, they might not be wise.
Steele seems to have no filter in his brain to weed out the words that act as lightning rods, and continues to blurt out whatever is on his mind at any given point in time. Very unwise.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
Yes Redbeard- He is the Republican's
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:44AM EDT (link)Joe the mouth Bidden. I agree he just opens his mouth, and, whatever is crossing his brain, crosses his lips. It just seems odd to me that many of his faux paus have been about “race.” I get the feeling that he is insecure in his blackness.
The Republicans (referred to above as the 168)didn’t have to work hard to put a black man in the top RNC position, and make backroom deals to get him there, they had Ken Blackwell, who was my choice, even if he was red with pink stripes, as well as many here at Redstate. I have the feeling that the RNC would be cooking now with him in charge. He had plans, that he laid out on the table, not just talk.
Maybe this will be the subject of his next book -nt
bk (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:02AM EDT (link)He is out to make his money now.
archer52 Wednesday, February 10th at 9:14AM EDT (link)Michael Steele represents the generation of politicians who do not care about anything beyond themselves. In Steele’s case it is all about the money.
The Republicans, on the other hand, put Steele up for one main reason. So they can say- “Look we have one too.”
Stupid, stupid, stupid but we do have a ton of Forrest Gumps running around inside the establishment Republicans.
But Archer- In this case
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:47AM EDT (link)“life wasn’t like a box of chocolates”, we knew what we were getting. He had a record to reflect upon.
Ok, so they let this guy buy the head of the RNC?
miketheknife Wednesday, February 10th at 9:24AM EDT (link)What did anyone think you’d get different than what he has always shown himself to be? I really believe this guy sympathizes way too often with the “O”-man simply because they both possess a beneficial reaction to the sun. It is not and never has been about race because the “race” is the human race, period and he and the “O”-man need to get over it.
I vote republican time after time but find the admission leaving a bit of a foul taste in my mouth as the head of the party attempts to play the victim. We the people and the Constitution are the victims and the party talking head should stop showing his under belly to the wolves in Jackass clothing and expect us to feel his pain!
So many Republicans
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:49AM EDT (link)want Obama gone before he does any more damage to our country. Problem with the Republicans, we keep our worst performers, and allow them to keep destroying the party.
The GOP is succeeding...
swami7774 (Diary) Wednesday, February 10th at 9:56AM EDT (link)…despite Steele. The party is carrying him.
If he can tone it down and remember that his job is to raise money for the party–and not himself–he can be an asset.
So far he’s been distressingly erratic.
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