[jazusamo]

Steele shouldn't be getting within a hundred miles of the race baiter Sharpton.

[GeronL]

Steele is a worthless tool.

No wonder nobody wants to donate to the RNC!

[truthbetold11]

He doesnt need sharpton to advance the cause

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2010/04/05/michael-steele-you%e2%80%99re-the-failure-i-predicted-you-would-be-resign-now-for-the-good-of-our-country/ I pegged this fraud last March 3 and I have seen nothing that would change my mind since.

[DallasSun]

I had not heard this. Little shocks me. This shocks me. I agree. Why is he having anything to do with Sharpton.

[windsorknot]

I certainly hope that Steele gives equal time for the next David Duke event.

[Tarpon]

Well I bet this will cut donations to the RNC. Isn’t there a new election on the way for RNC Chair?

[AmishDude]

Why not? As long as he tells them that, basically, Sharpton’s ideas are terrible and that Republicans are the party of freedom rather than slavery, I think it’s an example of going where the sinners are.

If he panders, well, that’s a different story.

[Oldpuppymax]

Those affirmative action picks never seem to work out quite as well as those chosen for actual ability!

[TexasFreeper2009]

Why would anyone with half a brain legitimize the race pimp Sharpton by attending anything he sponsored?

The GOP needs to boycott all racists organizations like this and the NAACP.

[marron]

He’s going right into the mouth of the beast.

Beck had Sharpton on the other night.

I have never understood what it is that people see in Sharpton. I don’t criticize Steele for trying, for facing people who are going to naturally see him as a sell-out, at least some of them. What would be really cool, would be if he would go to a Sharpton event and take Colonel West with him. Now, that would be worth the price of admission just to see it.

I remember talking to a black preacher a couple of years ago, and he came out with a very ugly remark about Condoleeza Rice. It shocked me, but I knew that many blacks tend to see any black Republican as a sell-out (why is a tribute to the mind-control magic going on over at your local public schools, I suppose). I smiled and told him, you’re talking to the wrong guy. I’m in love with that lady. It surprised him, and he started back-pedaling. It had never occurred to him that there was anyone who didn’t hate Ms Rice.

Thats what Steele is up against.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I’ll tell you right now that it does nothing to help the GOP, or conservatives, to take back the country when we get embroiled in petty controversies.

As far as I’m concerned, Steele should be talking to as wide an audience as he can. Not everyone following Sharpton is a nut job. Steele might win converts from the sensible ones.

I’m still not giving them money, but Michael Steele is doing the right thing here.

[domenad]

On the contrary, I don’t think he should cancel it at all. I think he needs to be in front of people that blindly follow idiots like Sharpton, and show them just where determined, hardworking black Americans can go when they stop waiting for crumbs from the Democratic party table like hack healthcare.

[Vaquero]

If you’d rather be in power and actively steering the country in the wrong direction than out of power and pointing in the right direction you might be a RINO.

If you think Sarah Palin is — come on now, honestly — just a bit de trop you might be a RINO.

If you think the Tea Partiers are a muddled, ignorant rabble likely to flare out of control or give the party a bad name you might be a RINO.

If you think defining conservative principles and insisting candidates agree with them is a “purity test” — and a bad thing — you might be a RINO.

If you think it’s okay if the “Big Tent” is big enough to hold two people who agree on practically nothing at all, you might be a RINO.

If you think consensus and comity between members of opposing parties is an important political principle you might be a RINO.

If you think the Constitution is over two hundred years old and a lot has changed in that time you might be a RINO.

[LibLieSlayer]

steele just hangin’ with his homies... the people he most identifies with... progressive race baiters.

LLS

[stockpirate]

Steele will be the democrats October surprise, he will announce that the racists have driven him out of the republican party.

[novemberslady]

Anyone who buddies up with sharpton is no friend of mine.

[Cheetahcat]

Another racist organization Why is Steele there?

[Carley]

That’s it! Steele has got to go.

[Winged Hussar]

Steele's appearance at a racist and anti-Semitic hate group (Google on "Freddy's Fashion Mart") is no better than Obama's appearance there.

I am calling the RNC to tell it to forget about my support (although I will support Republicans privately) while Michael Steele is leading it.

[Theodore R.]

Maybe he’s trying to convince Sharpton to switch parties, or vice versa?.