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Steele Open To Presidential Run, Says Limbaugh Spat Planned
FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/26/2009 5:38:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Is it time for RNC Chairman Michael Steele to say ’sayanora’? I’m starting to think so in light of his latest embarrassing and contradictory statements. [H/t Sam Stein, HuffPo--what can I say, that's where I found the story!]

From Stein column:

Speaking with CNN’s Don Lemon [video at link above]: Steele said he “would think about” running for the White House but only if “that is where God wants me to be at that time.”

Discussing his tiff with Rush Limbaugh in which he called Rushbo “incendiary and ugly,” Steele contended that it was all a part of a grand “strategic” plan. I’m very introspective about things. I’m a cause-and-effect kind of guy. So if I do something, there’s a reason for it… It may look like a mistake, a gaffe. There is a rationale, there is a logic behind it,” he said. “I want to see what the landscape looks like. I want to see who yells the loudest. I want to know who says they’re with me but really isn’t. It helps me understand my position on the chess board. It helps me understand, where, you know, the enemy camp is and where those who are inside the tent are,” Steele added. “It’s all strategic.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; haleybarbour; mccain; michaelsteele; rino; rinoalert; rinoparty; rinos; rnc; rncchairman; rushlimbaugh; steele; talkradio
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This guy certainly is full of himself.

He reminds me of Obama.


21 posted on 03/26/2009 5:45:27 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sharpie the marker maker is happy with him. Every time I receive a form from the RNC, I return it with BOLD RED LETTERS STATING, "GROW A SPINE"

22 posted on 03/26/2009 5:45:42 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It may have been strategic (I doubt it).

But if it was it was really stupid strategy unless he plans to run as a Democrat.

I liked Steele for Maryland, he is way too squishy to be advanced as a national candidate.


23 posted on 03/26/2009 5:46:13 AM PDT by RobFromGa (I want to panic but I'm too confused...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's quite possible that this experiment with Barry will sour America's taste for leaders of color.

I hope everyone who voted for Barry thinks about this. Because he wasn't vetted properly, because of the dems rush to be the first party to put a black man in office, because of Barry's narcissism and hideously huge unjustifiable ego, blacks may not have another shot at the White House for many, many years. Incredible.

24 posted on 03/26/2009 5:46:26 AM PDT by NoPrisoners (Huh? You mean he's NOT the messiah??? / sarcasm)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What an embarrassing doofus. He has no credibility. He needs to be sacked.


25 posted on 03/26/2009 5:47:17 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It helps me understand my position on the chess board. It helps me understand, where, you know, the enemy camp is

So, the Chair of the RNC thinks Rush is the enemy?

26 posted on 03/26/2009 5:47:35 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“I planned it that way.” /s


27 posted on 03/26/2009 5:48:25 AM PDT by OKSooner ("He's quite mad, you know." - Sean Connery to Honor Blackman in "Goldfinger".)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Love, love, love Haley Barbour. Maybe he’ll change his mind and decide to run.


28 posted on 03/26/2009 5:48:33 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Conservatives need a new party.


29 posted on 03/26/2009 5:48:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mike is coming off as somewhat unstable, it really is about Michael Steele, Steele out, Blackwell in.


30 posted on 03/26/2009 5:49:08 AM PDT by lmc12
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To: lmc12

I like it. Blackwell was my guy from the beginning.


31 posted on 03/26/2009 5:50:06 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Steele is a huge disappointment.

Haley Barbour? Not for RNC chair- how about GOP presidential candidate? :) By the time the primaries roll around the country MIGHT actually be ready for a conservative with experience.


32 posted on 03/26/2009 5:50:10 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: NoPrisoners

I think a lot of people voted for Zero in hopes they would forever be absolved of white guilt and American guilt.

It ain’t happening. It’s still all whitey’s fault and America’s fault.


33 posted on 03/26/2009 5:50:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Glenn

“This guy certainly is full of himself.”

You can guess what I think that liberal puke is full of!


34 posted on 03/26/2009 5:51:30 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Steele is turning out to be a desk jockey manipulator.

He is trying to show the “tiff” as rigged in order to salvage his viability to the NON REPUBLICANS.

Steele lives too much inside the la la land of the dc beltway to be a reality focused candidate.


35 posted on 03/26/2009 5:53:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: mewzilla

“Conservatives need a new party.”
***

Yup. The GOP is the New Democrat party, and the current Dem party has become the Socialist/Marxist Party.

That is how things have evolved.

Conservatives need a Tea Party.


36 posted on 03/26/2009 5:54:26 AM PDT by Canedawg (Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny- M. Levin)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Time for Steele to put it back in his pants. He lost and should go to where the RINOs live - oh wait, he’s already at the top of the GOP. My bad.


37 posted on 03/26/2009 5:56:08 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: mewzilla

**Conservatives need a new party.**

We may have to START a NEW PARTY... our choices...

GOP ... Liberal LITE
Libertarian ... tokabongnowar Party
Independence ... Libertarian Lite


38 posted on 03/26/2009 5:56:17 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (My 2nd amendment protects my 1st amendment... I carry a GUN because I can't Carry a SOLDIER!)
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To: SE Mom

What’s the matter with you? He’s an eeeevil Southerner!! :p

(How ya’ doing? :)


39 posted on 03/26/2009 5:57:29 AM PDT by Politicalmom (You're lucky I voted for you, Chambliss, you miserable louse.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All
I said at the time (and took heat for it) that this whole thing was a planned counter move to the Emanuel/Soros attempt to declare Rush to be the “leader” of the GOP.

I was right.

I'm always right.

40 posted on 03/26/2009 5:59:34 AM PDT by Cedric
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