Posted on 03/16/2009 11:29:13 AM PDT by CARepublicans
Ouch
What else has the RNC stood for in the last 2 decades?
He really should hit the road. If we need a black (or whatever they are called today) leader, I recommend Star Parker. If we only need a qualified, intelligent conservative, I recommend Star Parker.
Get rid of Steele NOW. Time is a wastin’.
I agree with this.
But in order for a move to oust Steele to matter, calls for resignation have to come from someone who supported him going in, or an RNC member who supported him (especially a member other than those who supported him in the final rounds after Blackwell came on board).
I LOVE STAR!
I love Star, she is a fantastic person.
Oh stop already.
So today we see an article in Newmax:
‘Steele Still Popular With State GOP Leaders’. If so, why does anyone stay with this RINO party?
GOP leadership knew what they were getting with Steele. The GOP is on the exit lane on pro-life. Take a look at the Governors plus RINOs also Guiliani had a lot of support. They are desperate to break out of the Bible belt and corn belt and pro-life is ripe to be thrown under the campaign bus. On abortion, Pro-life will have to depend of the clergy convincing women rather than convincing politicians.
That interview was a total killer for me. He has got to go. Even if he learns to shut up and pretend, he will constantly be making decisions to use his influence to help the RINO faction of the party.
We needed someone who would clean that mess out. Instead, we got someone who is clearly inclined to keep it going with business as usual.
And if Steele has to go, much better to do it now and get it over with. Let the media scream about racism, and maybe point out that the had little good to say about Steele when he got the job. Get it done, and start cleaning out the stables. It’s none too soon.
If they take that route, the GOP will become extinct. They will lose the social conservative vote, and they will not gain anything in the liberal states, where the Democrats will continue to outbid them.
Being the “me too” party is a losing strategy. Just ask the Conservative Party in the UK. Labour has gotten more and more tired and disliked, the the Conservatives just don’t represent a real alternative, and never will as long as they say, “Choose us, we’re Labour Lite.”
They have taken that route in the big Eastern states and California. I think a better future in those areas would to reach out to Reagan Democrats but since they contain a lot of union members, the GOP would rather reach out to the 'choicers'.
GQ is the metrosexual megaphone ~ they run softporn stuff too ~ and I am forced to envision the guys who use it as a source as trying to lick the bikinis (if worn) off the teenyboppers (or TB lookalikes) who are so carefully displayed on the covers and inside pages.
Not that I am horrified by their behavior ~ it's at least somewhat heterosexual (one would hope, or is that the guy wearing those tight cut jeans who's getting the tongue treatment?)~ but I am aghast they would take such a culturally Leftwingtard document as the SOURCE of their thoughts.
Certainly they can do better than that ~ like maybe ask Mr. Steele for copies of all his major speeches for the last 20 years of his political life.
I guess I haven't been following this close enough.
I had no idea he said that.
Buying into that homosexual deviant propaganda is absolutely ignorant.
Yes, of course, the defining moment for me is the recent GQ magazine interview in which Steele sounds more like a Democrat than a Republican. Does a woman have a right to choose abortion? “Yeah. Absolutely.” Is homosexual behavior something an individual can choose? “It’s like saying, ‘Tomorrow morning I’m gonna stop being black.’”
Steele sounds like a social liberal. Not that I believe that for most people homosexuality is a “choice” but he is dead wrong on the abortion issue.
No doubt Steele learned to counsel his language at the Catholic seminary he attended, and his old instincts simply came back to him when he was interviewed by the metrosexual GQ reporter.
I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that virtually none of the big mouths on this issue would go berserk in the presence of a homosexual reporter conducting an interview, although they should, and you know who you are.
Re-read whatever he said about abortion in light of what he’s said since, and before. He didn’t say he supported abortion.
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