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Re: Steele on Chairmanship

By Quin Hillyer on 1.8.10 @ 11:10AM

Phil,

Just Shut Up. Unless you want to pay Steele to speak. Because of course he will put your money to better use in his own pocket than he could if he talked you into donating it to the party. The party doesn't need the money anyway, because it has a superstar as chairman who can make it popular just by virtue of his reflected glory. And, of course, his glory reflects more brightly if you pay him to speak. When he tells people to "get with the program," well, of course the best program is the one that has him as a featured, highly paid speaker. Because, you see, he is ready to lead, but th Republicans not only won't win back the House but aren't ready to lead if they do win it back. We know that is the case because the man of Steele told us so himself -- even without being paid to do so.

And when he said he wanted the gig, he didn't mean he wanted to do all the nuts and bolts things that an ordinary chairman does -- things such as fund-raising, and like saying things that actually make the party look good. No, he meant he wanted the TITLE of party chairman so he could boost his speaking fees. Because, you see, if he gets rich off of being chairman, he will be in better position to finance the race for president that he plans to make. He should be president, you see, because he is SO "all that." Because, after all, he is the very man to sell our principles to "hip-hop" audiences and to one-armed midgets. Because those are the new majoritarian interest groups, of course.

Mental midgets, of course, are also welcome -- especially as party chairman.

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Teflon93| 1.8.10 @ 11:41AM

All true, but Steele wasn't chosen for any such qualifications aside from the one he was born with---he is a black man, and the GOP thought they needed a prominent black spokesman when what they really needed was an eminent conservative to connect with the 4/5 of Americans who are not liberal.

Republicans have historically been the colorblind party--it is the Democrats whose party was founded in and steeped in racism to the bone. So why do we keep insisting on using the melanin content of one's skin or the historical country of origin to determine who gets to be in our party's driver's seat and who sits in the back seat?

That's the other party. And we embrace their worldview to our peril.

Don't expect Michael Steele to adopt ours---the Democrat racial Manicheanism works out just find for him.

Oldefarte| 1.9.10 @ 2:19PM

Michael Steele DID NOT get the Republican Party into the political cesspool to which it now finds itself----we can thank those with names such as Bush, McCain, Newt,etc for that. I'm not thrilled with Steele's making money off of his position, but he certainly seems to be telling the truth as far as I can tell [recently claiming that the RP needs to be rebuilt from the foundation upwards to become successful]. The current crop of congressional Republicans, along with all of us who elected them, have been complete failures in allowing this current group of liberal Democrats to overtake this country. The political correctness of these Republicans of AS*KISSING their DC Democratic collegues, while effectively telling their constituents and this country to GO TO HADES, is pathetic [and hopefully a Palin,etc will be elected in 2012 and begin managing/administrating this country back to political and financial health]!!!!!!!!