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RNC Chair Michael Steele WAS An Affirmative Action Hire
Black & Blonde Media ^ | 7/7/10 | Bob Parks

Posted on 02/25/2018 7:38:57 AM PST by impetrio1

With all this new in-fighting over former RNC chair Michael Steele and comments made about him by a CPAC official, let's not forget that some of us never thought he should have gotten the job he was clearly unqualified for and did tremendous damage to the brand.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blogbot; blogpimp; clickbait; cpac; gop; michaelsteele; paypalpimp; trashblog; yourblogsucks
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1 posted on 02/25/2018 7:38:57 AM PST by impetrio1
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To: impetrio1

Say it ain’t so.


2 posted on 02/25/2018 7:40:47 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: impetrio1

I like Michael Steele...


3 posted on 02/25/2018 7:42:05 AM PST by cherry
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To: impetrio1
(Excerpt) Read more at

No, Bob.

You can post your blog stuff right here in full.

4 posted on 02/25/2018 7:42:31 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: impetrio1

Steele was incompetent and used the post to advance HIS interests and diverted money and jobs to his relatives.


5 posted on 02/25/2018 7:43:13 AM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: impetrio1

It was pretty obvious he was picked for affirmative action and the party got the results it deserved for not instead picking the best available candidate.


6 posted on 02/25/2018 7:43:57 AM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: humblegunner; Larry Lucido; 50mm; Delta 21; Darksheare

You forgot some FRiends who love one sentence posts.


7 posted on 02/25/2018 7:46:01 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: cherry

I like Michael Steele, too. I used to hear him when he substitute-hosted Bill Bennett’s early morning radio show. He came across as a very nice, very religious individual. He was so nice, I didn’t think he would make a good RNC chair, but I always enjoyed hearing him on the radio.

Of course, I used to say about Jimmy Carter that I’d vote for him to be my preacher, just not my president.


8 posted on 02/25/2018 7:53:36 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: impetrio1; bocopar

Listen, double headed pimp, didn’t you say the following:
“Look, I really don’t need to post here anymore so I won’t.

I do sympathize with Jim. Some of you must be a handful, and we’re all supposed to be on the same side.

Sayonara.”

And this was after you whined that you need the blog hits?


9 posted on 02/25/2018 7:53:53 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Remember his Senate run? Guess he was our best hope. Lost-may have been bad.


10 posted on 02/25/2018 8:00:58 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: impetrio1
Thank you for this most awesome post.

Steele is now officially a left wing scumbag. Watch him on the talk shows now if you don't believe me.

11 posted on 02/25/2018 8:01:58 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yeah.


12 posted on 02/25/2018 8:02:56 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: impetrio1

The RNC has been run by Bush League Republicans for decades with one goal:

Prevent the citizens from electing anyone who would stop them from turning the USA into North Mexico.


13 posted on 02/25/2018 8:07:17 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: impetrio1
Just a refresher, Bob:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2684448/posts?page=270#270

14 posted on 02/25/2018 8:14:51 AM PST by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: impetrio1

As was Obozo


15 posted on 02/25/2018 8:15:40 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: humblegunner

fixed it (full article, no excerpt):

RNC Chair Michael Steele WAS An Affirmative Action Hire

There are many blacks the Republican Party could (and should) have chose from. Ken Blackwell, Lurita Doan, J.C. Watts, Larry Elder, Ken Hamblin, Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, and I’m sure there are many others who would raise their hands if there were walk-on tryouts.

Michael Steele had name recognition, made the cable news rounds heavily after Obama’s election, and really, really wanted and got the vacant RNC Chair gig. Obviously that should have been a red flag as much was expected of his abilities, he was a questionable messenger at best, and was totally inept when it came to those all-too-important optics which a party chairman should know just a little about.

Flashback: Steele Must Be High: Wants RNC Private Jet

Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.

We clearly could have chosen more wisely, then again it wasn’t up for a party-wide vote.

Well, Michael Steele is a self-aggrandizing, gaffe-prone incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black. Of course, the irony is that he never would have been voted in as Chairman of the Republican Party were he not black.

The truth hurts but let’s also be consistent when we’re talking about affirmative action hires. All we have to do is recognize the source for starters….

Would The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker have won a 2007 Pulitzer for “for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community” if she weren’t black and thus praised by a pandering body in need of translation of the community’s pulse?

Let’s remember how the Party wound up with Michael Steele. In November 2008, the Party was devastated that the Democrats had elected the nation’s first black president while the Republican Party was stuck with being seen as largely the party of aging white people, with good reason.

A party that was hostile to people of color, especially blacks and Latinos.

Cynthia Tucker is in partisan lockstep when it comes to perceptions of Republican racism. I would be very curious to hear her probable kneejerk response to the racist comments of Democrats like the late Robert Byrd, Bill Clinton on Obama’s serving him coffee, Harry Reid and Obama’s on-and-off Negro dialect, and John Mayer’s boasts of his “N pass.”

I would also ask Ms. Tucker to name the first two black Secretaries of State, first black National Security Adviser, as well as the first black to be a national party chair? Which party do they belong to?

So the Party needed a new face, preferably a face of color, and they didn’t have very many officials to choose from. So, they came up with Michael Steele. And it is very ironic since the Republicans have been so critical of affirmative action, to watch them stuck with their affirmative action hire that they dare not get rid of because that would generate even more controversy.

Tucker had be very careful when bringing up affirmative action.

I am more qualified to be President of the United States than is Barack Obama. Granted, I’ve not met a payroll, but I do have the ability to go back and look at what’s not only created a positive atmosphere for job creation, but what’s also resulted in the doubling of tax revenues for the government: both things Barack Obama refuses to do.

As a veteran, I would not have let an Army general in-theater languish for months with not so much as even a phone call, when he requested reinforcements on the battlefield.

And if the Republican Party hadn’t picked a black man as RNC chair, Cynthia Tucker would be the first person to point her finger, shake her head, and bitch about how nothing’s changed in the Republican Party while she gloated about “Change We Can Believe In”.

Maybe the GOP should’ve looked at that ol’ content-of-one’s-character and not just the color-of-one’s-skin thing. THAT’s how we wound up with Michael Steele.

Update: Michael Steele’s Univision Suck-Up Fail

While illustrating her ignorance of the GOP, perhaps Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution should now spend more of her time asking why Democrat whites and Independents are abandoning the first black Democrat. Of course she’ll say it’s not because of race but because of what Obama inherited.

Heaven forbid she see racism coming from its historical origin (see The Democrat Race Lie).


16 posted on 02/25/2018 8:16:41 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: impetrio1

Sounds as much like jealousy as anything worth heeding....


17 posted on 02/25/2018 8:21:35 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: bagster

Steele was never a conservative. At best he was a RINO, now he is what he is; a democrat


18 posted on 02/25/2018 8:30:13 AM PST by Freedom_2_ADM
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To: impetrio1
RNC Chair Michael Steele WAS An Affirmative Action Hire

I am shocked, I tell you, shocked.

19 posted on 02/25/2018 9:11:13 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: impetrio1
I liked Steele. We had some decent chairs from time to time and he was one of them.

The RNC chair I am concerned about is the current one, who seemingly raises a bunch of money, but has had string of inexplicable losses on her watch.

20 posted on 02/25/2018 10:12:48 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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