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My take on Michael Steele’s tenure in the Guardian. At one point, I compare his taking credit for the 2010 election successes in spite of his PR disasters to Bill Clinton’s taking credit for the dot-com boom despite his tax-raising economic policies. It worked out better for Clinton than for Steele. Steele will at least get this much revenge, however: there is sure to be commentary noting that the Republican National Committee ousted its first black chairman on Martin Luther King Day weekend.
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Booger| 1.14.11 @ 10:33PM
And how fitting it is that Steele was shown the door on MLK day weekend. He was judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. He was weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Cordially,
Booger
Alan Brooks| 1.15.11 @ 9:51PM
Steele is evidence that the GOP doesn't conserve anything.
It was just: "we got a token negro who's jus' as good as that O-bama!"
Alan Brooks| 1.15.11 @ 11:54PM
...and what will the GOP do in 2012 & '16?
run a compromise candidate of course.
So how do you spell compromise?:
b_u_s_h, m_c_c_a_i_n, d_o_l_e, f_o_r_d,
n_i_x_o_n
W| 1.16.11 @ 4:39PM
Brooks, that beats Mondole,Dukakis, Kerry,Gore,McGovern.
Ryan| 1.17.11 @ 8:59AM
But not Clinton, Obama, Carter, etc...
Wayne | 1.15.11 @ 12:36AM
Can't say I understand the anti-Steel rhetoric. But he is gone. But I can't help but think that the winners are really the good old boys.
SteveP| 1.15.11 @ 8:36AM
The race card. Extravagant, wasteful expenditures of party money. What UP!
Any lights coming on yet?
bill glass| 1.15.11 @ 10:24AM
true that
Dixie Pixie| 1.15.11 @ 5:49PM
Wayne....The test of whether the TEA Party could oust the RINO's was whether Chairman Steele could keep his job. The second test of the TEA Party's moxie and power is whether ObamaCare can be repealed.
Eric Dondero | 1.16.11 @ 10:13AM
Michael Steele, WAS TEA PARTY!
He came from the libertarian wing of the GOP. How could you say that he was a RINO? In Maryland politics before his RNC Chair role, he was considered a flaming Rightwinger. He was even attacked by his Dem Senate opponent for wanting to slash and burn spending and severely cut taxes.
Don| 1.16.11 @ 11:56AM
Sorry Wayne ... your comment does not make any sense at all. Steele was a self-promoting machine. For example, he seems to have subverted the responsibilites of his job in order to personally profit from speaking appearances. This type of behavior - charging for speaking did enhance his wallet but at the expense of promoting the RNC/GOP. Am I wrong?
Wayne | 1.16.11 @ 2:12PM
Nothing of what you say convinces me that somehow the new guy is one we can trust. For all the complaints I always found Steele interesting and well-meaning. But all I see is anti-Steele comments and no support for his replacement. Am I wrong?
steve| 1.15.11 @ 5:32AM
Can the mod please delete the spam?
inge| 1.15.11 @ 7:22AM
I'm surprised, he hasn't screamed 'racism' yet!
SteveP| 1.15.11 @ 8:32AM
He will, he's done it before.
JimH| 1.15.11 @ 9:06AM
I'm sure it will be in the forthcoming book. If he had done half as much promoting the party as he did himself he would still be there and the GOB might have a few more senators. DLTDHYAOTWO.
Tom| 1.15.11 @ 11:03AM
"....there is sure to be commentary noting that the Republican National Committee ousted its first black chairman on Martin Luther King Day weekend."
Just wait until 2013 when Obama officially gets booted out of the White House on MLK week-end!
JmsA| 1.15.11 @ 9:33PM
That'd be something to behold.
Larry Sheldon | 1.15.11 @ 12:37PM
Is being black the only skill he claimed?
Eric Dondero | 1.16.11 @ 10:11AM
Say what you want about Steele, but everyone admits that guy had style, and pizazz. We are all going to miss the excitement level he brought to the GOP.
This new guy seems okay, but appallingly dull. Perhaps it's time to create an extra-RNC Chair position for an exciting Spokesman for the Party, and let Prebius act as the hand-on behind the scenes manager.
We desperately need to Excite the Base. Someone super dynamic as the Face of our Party.
Wayne | 1.16.11 @ 2:14PM
That's my take.
dmcsherlock| 1.16.11 @ 2:20PM
No, we don't need style and pizazz leading the RNC. We need a smart principled conservative businessman who's willing to work hard for the good of others. That was impossible for Michael Steele. Good riddance.
Eric Dondero | 1.17.11 @ 6:46AM
No, you are precisely wrong. Style and pizzaz inspires activists to grab a stack of brochures, and go out and knock on doors for good Republican candidates.
Budget crunching and sitting behind a desk with boring charts and graphs, does absolutely nothing to excite the base.
Wayne | 1.17.11 @ 12:20PM
What concerns me is that those numbers come from Fat Cats who want Big Government, as long as it makes them fatter. I see it as counter-tea-party. I know that if the GOP moves back to its old ways, I will support the Tea Party as a Third Party.
JP| 1.17.11 @ 7:19AM
The GOP did well in 2010 in spite of the RNC's efforts to snatch victory form the jaws of defeat. I know many here and around the nation no longer send thier money to the RNC. For a decade or more, the national Republican Party is really nothing more than a lapdog for the the Beltway. And the Betlway is the city of Big Government, Progressives, and lousy restaurants.
Pete2| 1.17.11 @ 9:13AM
Sifting through the comments.. what makes anyone think conservatives are only republicans? The GOP has been just as liberal as the democrats in many things, in fact, it was GOP senators who helped pass much of the progressive legislation. Steele is gone, so what? The RNC doesn't amount to more than the DNC in many of our eyes.
Bo| 1.17.11 @ 4:28PM
I liked Steele, sorry to see him go. I also thought he'd be better off not as RNC Chair but in elected office.