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Do not let them get away with backstabbing us. That is how they become Lindsey Graham and eventually, Arlen Specter.

To have a Republican represent William Jefferson’s (Democrat - Louisiana) district, and be willing to compromise to the point that the ‘big tent’ must include positions on issues like that, we compromise to the point that the GOP does not represent voters in places (like Virginia) where we really do need to win.

That is how rot-gut commies like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barak Obama take over our country.

Believe me. The RATS know it. If they get us to go wobbly on conservative values, we lose, they win. Do not let that happen.

The GOP wins elections when the GOP stands firm on solid conservative principles. Voting for Pelosi's communist health care was a betrayal of the worst order.

[JoSixChip]

RNC leadership = oxymoron

[indianrightwinger]

Steele is a loser. He has no clue what he is talking about.

He swings with the pendulum.

Takes on conservatives in the 1H of this year. Turns into a conservative after the Summer revolution.

Supports Dede on day, and turns on her the next.

I won’t feel better until he is replaced with a better chairman.

[dragonblustar]

Cao has more to fear from the people than Steele.

[Psalm 144]

Odious little tapeworm, isn’t he?

[Squantos]

He took a bribe of promise from Obama so aside from being stupid he sold out his country to a proven liar an cheat for something he will never get.

What a POS !

[cynwoody]

Cao is seriously deluded if he thinks his vote for Obamacare is going to save his seat.

He's a chump who needs to find a gentler line of work.

[Mamzelle]

Write him off, Mike. No brainer.

[Yaelle]

No one needs to come and get you, Cao. You’re through.

[Lancey Howard]

That district will go right back to rat no matter what this scumbag Cao does. The rats can have it.
Forget him. He’s just another rat no matter what party label he claims to wear.

Why waste time on Cao and a district that is mostly bums, deadbeats, and parasites to begin with? It’s obviously a rat district at heart. The GOP needs to concentrate on exposing and defeating fake “conservative” Democrats who won in right-leaning districts of hard-working, taxpaying, traditional American families by lying. Those districts should be Republican every time. Go after THOSE districts.

[PzLdr]

Well, well. A slimmed down DeeDee Scozzafava.

[politicket]

How many of the "angry" Republicans voted for President Bush's $750 BILLION DOLLAR stimulus plan?

They're two-faced.

[XenaLee]

I would personally like to ask Cao how his father would approve of him caving into the commies like he did and claiming it was for his constituents. That makes no sense. He has no logic. He’s a leftie. It’s a dead giveaway.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Looter Guy could have beaten fricking Jefferson, for crying out loud. For Cao to crow about defeating him is akin to the Globetrotters bragging about a victory over the Generals.

Interesting that Cao can't articulate to his district that Obama's policies would keep them in continuous poverty & still without health insurance even if Obamacare passes. He voted for it because of a measly commitment from a known liar and fraud, the same fraud who promised transparency among other things.

Not only has he lost his support in the district and from grassroots conservatives, but the Dems are going to target him because they're going to be facing losses next year and will try and save/win as many seats as they can.

What a complete, worthless tool.

[4rcane]

i like to ask, we need his district for what

[OrangeHoof]

Cao took William Jefferson’s district in a surprise and he’s truly in a no-win situation. If he votes like a good conservative, his 60% slum district will vote him out. If he votes like a Democrat, his 60% Obama-loving racist slum district will still vote him out. He’d have never won election in the first place if it were not for Jefferson’s corruption.

So, I don’t understand Steele suddenly puffing his chest and acting like Cao needs to fall in line when there are so many other Republicans who need that sort of talking to and aren’t repping districts as leftward as Cao’s.

Wasn’t Steele pimping for Dede Scuzziwuzzi last week and Cao’s no worse than she was. Picking on him is silly because he’s dead congressman walking anyway, even if he were a perfect Republican.

[SaraJohnson]

We don’t need his district and we don’t need him.

[Dapper 26]

If Cao studied to be a Jesuit, he is a liberal. He ran as a Republican because it was probably the only way he could survive the primary, if he was the only Republican to run.
I heard him on the House floor and he was only concerned federal funding of abortion. By his previous votes - with the Dimocraps - and his vote for Pelosi Care, he is a Democrat. Let’s see when the Senate sneaks abortion back into their bill.
What makes it even worse is I fought and bled for his country’s freedom all for him to come to America and vote to take away mine.

[hattend]

If he’s not going to vote the party line in the most important bill he has voted on then we don’t need the seat.

F him and the donkey he rode in on.

[Clock King]

His district IS the problem. The people in it are weak and dependent. They need a lesson in reality.

[nathanbedford]

All politics in America is not local but racial

We FReepers are indignant and we do not know whom to be more angry at, Rep. Cao or Republican national Committee Chairman Michael Steele. Perhaps we should consider that both men have their jobs because of race.

Michael Steele was chosen to be the Republican national committee chairman in order to get a wedge into a black voting constituency that delivers 90% or better of its population for Democrats. Cao won his election by a scant 3% against a flagrantly corrupt black man in a largely black district which is extremely likely to revert to a black Democrat in the next election. His Election was a fluke, an outlier.

But before we take out our indignation on either man, let us consider the limitations of their options. Michael Steele as chairman of the national committee is obligated to support the nominated candidate (or should I say for New York's 23rd district the "selected" candidate). He cannot make unilateral decisions to throw maverick representatives like Cao under the bus. Cao knows that in his district to be thrown under the bus by the Republican Party enhances his chances for reelection.

The reality is in America we have a demographic slice of the pie amounting to about 12% of the population that is reflexively voting for one party and, so long as that party has an African-American as its titular head, there is no realistic expectation that African Americans will vote otherwise. It is this 10% or so election day cushion (90%-95% of 12%) which gives the Democrat party an edge.

If one looks into the culture of the African-American "community" (God how I hate that euphemism!) One sees many characteristics of a tribe or a cult in which conspiracy theories run rife, the scientific method is flatly rejected, authority is exalted over reason, intolerance and bigotry demand and attain conformity. Few indeed are the Thomas Sowells and the Shelby Steeles who can break free of these leaden chains. Although I have fought long and hard against the nomination of Michael Steele, fairness demands that we acknowledge that there are few indeed of African-Americans with the courage to stand where he does.

What a very great pity it is that the greatest nation on earth must lay virtually every political question on the template of race. It is an even greater pity when political correctness so often prevents us from facing reality.

For the record, my view is that Michael Steele should acquire the consensus needed to make an example out of of Rep. Cao for the good of party discipline. The seat is likely lost anyway. If held, it will be a canker unremittingly oozing pus. There is nothing to be gained within the African-American community by pandering to them and the blowback from the rest of the electorate cost real votes which we biannually exchange in the forlorn hope of denting the elusive 10%.