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Fork, Meet Steele

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Yes, The Hilarious Adventures of Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, is about to lower its curtain at the ever-rising height of its clusterf--- crescendo.

Here's what he just said in an interview with GQ:

Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?
Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.
You do?
Yeah. Absolutely.
Are you saying you don’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade?
I think Roe v. Wade—as a legal matter, Roe v. Wade was a wrongly decided matter.
Okay, but if you overturn Roe v. Wade, how do women have the choice you just said they should have?
The states should make that choice. That’s what the choice is. The individual choice rests in the states. Let them decide.
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http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2009/03/the-reconstruct.html

Christ! Does this guy know who he's working for?!?
 
How do you deal with the criticism?
I just pray on it.

You do?
Oh yeah. And I ask God, “Hey, let me show just a little bit of love, so I absolutely don’t go out and kick this person’s ass.”
 
Just when I thought that nobody could top Palin for wack better than Piyush, this guy opens his mouth.

The Limbaugh Party is now on suicide watch.
 
I read that. I almost swallowed my chaw when I got to this part.
Michael Steele said:
The individual choice rests in the states. Let them decide.
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The individual is now a "state"? Has Rush been slipping him some Vicoden?
 
The battle lines continue to be drawn. If the anti-abortion lobby ends up taking Steele down over his remarks, then it will just highlight for the country that the GOP is way out of touch with what really concerns the American people. Most people in the U.S. couldn't give a flip about abortion, yet here the Republican's are practically shooting each other over it, as if that is what really matters.

:popcorn1
 
MattusMaximus said:
The battle lines continue to be drawn. If the anti-abortion lobby ends up taking Steele down over his remarks, then it will just highlight for the country that the GOP is way out of touch with what really concerns the American people. Most people in the U.S. couldn't give a flip about abortion, yet here the Republican's are practically shooting each other over it, as if that is what really matters.

:popcorn1
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I wouldn't mind too much if the anti-abortion folk get credit for tossing Steele. But, honestly, the guy is objectively incompetent at his job. He was never going to make it.
 
Dr Adequate said:
How do you deal with the criticism?
I just pray on it.

You do?
Oh yeah. And I ask God, “Hey, let me show just a little bit of love, so I absolutely don’t go out and kick this person’s ass.”
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Everybody has his own way to deal with it,this one has more interesting.

Tricky said:
I read that. I almost swallowed my chaw when I got to this part.

The individual is now a "state"? Has Rush been slipping him some Vicoden?
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I read that answer as it is "in state" as state decides if they will allow abortion or not.(Apparently he thinks that this is of no concern for federal gov.)
And then women would have free will.It is more double-speak,so both parts of republicans would not kick him for this.
 
I love this guy. His self-imposed hibernation from the media is over -- he's back in the sun!

STEELE: So if I do something, there’s a reason for it.Even, it may look like a mistake, a gaffe. There is a rationale, there’s a logic behind it. […]

Q: There’s a rationale behind Rush, all that stuff?

STEELE: Yup, yup. … I want to see what the landscape looks like. I want to see who yells the loudest. I wanted to know who says they’re with me but really isn’t. … It helps me understand my position on the chess board. It helps me understand, you know, where the enemy camp is and where those who are inside the tent are.
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Holy cow! Mr. Steele is a very, very, very silly person. Does he not realize that some of his internal monologue might not be appropriate for public airing?

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/26/steele-limbaugh-planned/
 
jj said:
Really? What he just said was a straight-out slap at Crush Bimbo. This is a bad thing?
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A slap at Limbaugh? Eh, not so much. What he's saying is so out of left field, that I wouldn't even assume that he intends to paint Limbaugh as being in the "enemy camp." What we're witnessing is someone who is the leader of an important political organization who is so childish that he can't separate his personal introspection from his job responsibilities. In addition to that, either he's really dumb, or he thinks his audience is.

He doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes either. Is it impossible for him to stop talking about himself, and start talking about politics and public policy and Republican candidates and all the stuff he's supposed to be talking about?
 
Every time he speaks, he reaches a new level of inappropriateness for the job he's supposed to be doing.


Look, we can't go back out and start pointing fingers at Democrats and saying look how bad they're performing, look at what they're doing with the economy when we jump-started this thing. We were the ones that put the $700 billion on the table and said, all right, let's start nationalizing the banking system. So now, for us to stand back and go, oh, that's a bad thing to do is disingenuous. So let's own up, do the my bad, and move forward.
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"Do the my bad." Is he kidding? Not only is the chairman of the RNC not supposed highlight supposed mistakes of his party, he's also not supposed to sound like 12 year old on the playground. I'm starting to think that he's got the same IQ as his former brother-in-law.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/steele-bailouts/
 
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And this one.
Michael Steele said:
The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over.
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Right. If someone points out a mistake, you simply deny or ignore it.
I must say the Era of Apologizing for Republican Mistakes was remarkably short. If you blinked, you missed it.
 
His idea of "moving on" is to bring more Reagan Republicans to the foreground and drive on in the spirit of Ronald Reagan.

What did Einstein say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
 
leftysergeant said:
His idea of "moving on" is to bring more Reagan Republicans to the foreground and drive on in the spirit of Ronald Reagan.

What did Einstein say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
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The Reagan thing worked for Republicans once. My personal feeling is that it screwed things up in the long run, but that is by no means a universal or even majority opinion. But RR is certainly a god among Republicans, so trying to emulate him is not "doing what didn't work before." It did work before, at least as far as getting Republicans elected, so it is no surprise that they would want to try it again.

Of course, GWB was almost a clone of Ronald Reagan, but without the charm, yet many GOP-ers seem to think that RR's ideas still have validity. Maybe they had some good effects once, but I think what really energized people was RR himself, not his policies. It was a "feel good" time in America. Some people look back on it fondly. I can't imagine why.
 
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