Posted on 11/09/2009 2:00:34 PM PST by RobinMasters
Actually, he never says “some.” I’m adding that to give him the benefit of the doubt. Raw Story’s transcript of the exchange:
STEELE: Education and the economy. Education and jobs. Education and small business.
MARTIN: But your candidates got to talk to them. One of the criticisms I’ve always had is Republicans — white Republicans — have been scared of black folks.
STEELE: You’re absolutely right. I mean I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me. I’m like, “I’m on your side” and so I can imagine going out there and talking to someone like you, you know, [you're like,] “I’ll listen.” And they’re like “Well.” Let me tell you. You saw in Christie and you saw in McDonnell a door open because they went in and engaged. McDonnell was very deliberate about spending –
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I didn't seem to notice that at the GOP convention last year, when Steele gave that outstanding "Drill, baby, drill!" speech. White (and other) Republicans have no problem with Steele when he resonates with them on the issues. Problem is that too often Steele deviates from what we think should be the Republican message. He's not the only prominent GOP politician who does so, but his job title is essentially "chief Republican", so he has to be more circumspect with what he says.
The Democrats are self-destructing now, so the GOP showed last week that it can win regardless of Steele's rhetorical gaffes. I, for one, don't see any urgency in replacing him as RNC chair. Just as wins and losses are the bottom line for a sports coach, electoral success or failure are the bottom line for a party chair. So far, the GOP is doing well in that regard under Steele, or maybe in spite of him. And as things stand now, the GOP stands to do well next year, so there's no need for Republicans to go overboard in criticizing him at the present time.
Ping!!!
Not really. We just don’t like RINO scum...
The color of Mr. Steele’s skin has NOTHING to do with what scares me about him. What scares me is, what’s going to come out of his RINO mouth next? How did this guy ever become the “leader” of the RNC?????
Mr. Steele can kiss my lily while kiester.
“Michael Steele : Some white Republicans are scared of me”
Yeah—scared that you’re going to keep screwing up to the point of blowing the elections next year which should otherwise be a cakewalk for Republicans.
Quit making a fool of yourself and further damaging the party.
Show you have integrity and resign now.
For a story such as this the editors should lift the restriction on profanity & racial slurs. I find myself unable to comment without them.
You stated it well. Steele has made some avoidable gaffes, but few of them are major. Most of them are insider stuff that the grass roots doesn’t care much about anyway.
Mr. Steele is a major political dummy. The Rinos found him on the short bus. All that mattered is that he is Black and to a Rino this means all Black people will vote for them.
I think he’s mistaking PANDERING for scared.
Michael Steele isn’t scaring anyone, the only thing we’re scared of is you destroying the Republican party. Don’t worry Mike you’re well on your way to irrelevancy. Every time this clown opens his mouth he inserts his foot.
See Mike, I’m treating you like any other RINO, I’m not pulling any punches or pandering to you because you’re black, you big nerd. No money for the RNC, just to individual conservative candidates.
Steele has to go. The Democrat party has more than enough race pimps for all of us.
I'll add to that in saying I think he is aware of the desired Republican goal of attracting more black voters, so when he is talking with a black man, as here, he doesn't want to seem disagreeable to a fellow black man, and when someone asks him if the two new Republican governors reflect badly on Obama, he says no, so as not to offend other blacks.
He has two easily conflicting goals: to present the GOP favorably and not to appear an oreo to his own people, which would turn them away from Republicans.
I don't have the animosity toward him that others seem to have, disappointed as I was in the support of Scozzafava. He is in a very tough spot, because of the necessity of defeating the dems and because of the built-in conflict in his job. MHO, anyway.
How long is he RNC for?
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