Posted on 11/22/2010 8:29:04 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
If nothing else has proven that Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele is not in tune with the GOP today, his recent statements on the Tea Party movement should serve as exhibit number one.
Showing that he has no clue the effect that the Tea Party movement had on the 2010 elections, in a five-page memo to committee members last week, Steele said that the GOP saved the day by stopping Tea Partiers from going third party in 2010.
Daily Caller excerpted Steele's comments on Nov. 20. "The RNC," Steele told the members, "welcomed the energy and limited government principles of Tea Party voters and grassroots conservatives, and worked hard to ensure that their views found expression within the Republican party, and not in a potentially ruinous third-party movement."
Given the shambles the party was in at the end of 2008, circumstances were ripe for a new party to emerge. Encouraging those millions of disaffected conservative voters to become active Republicans was at the center of the RNC’s turnout strategy.Steele is trying to spin the situation and make it seem as if his efforts and that of the national party corralled the Tea Party movement and led the Tea Partiers to an electoral victory. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact, it was the 'tuther way 'round, Mr. Steele. It was the Tea Partiers that forced the GOP to take notice, to heed policy ideas, and to glom onto Tea Party support to win in 2010...
Why is this moron still employed?
He wasn’t IN THE WAY and I give him GREAT credit for that, but he needed a leash on Karl Rove.
Man, I thought it was a satire piece by our friend John S.
Alas, it must be true.
You seem to have omitted three fifths of the blog posting.
Why not just post it all here?
gag me. steele needs to be gone yesterday.
Still shucking and jiving, this quota boy.
Man, I thought it was a satire piece by our friend John S.Sad, isn't it?
Yes, the Tea Party was absolutely thrilled when Steele, in a national televised interview, nodded in agreement with the ignorant comments from a semi-literate ThugRapper regarding white “racism”.
Such stalwart support for the conservative cause.
Steele: soon to come out of the closet as just another affirmative-action racist like Colon Bowel.
Where do you buy a pig leash????
I think we don’t patronize Rove in any way.
Treat him with the same way FR treats Romneycare.
Heh Heh...lol
http://www.coachisright.com/michael-steele-you%e2%80%99re-the-failure-i-predicted-you-would-be-resign-now-for-the-good-of-our-country/ PROUD TO SAY I’ve
been on this fraud since March 3 2009 and was one of the first to say he was an affirmative action fraud who should quit.
steele is stuck on stupid.
the tea party movement was NEVER about third parties and anyone who believes that is a gulible fool. (see mccain)
the tea party is about taking steele’s job.
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