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Former RNC chair Steele: GOP would control Congress if it had its ‘***&— together
The Hill | 07/03/2023 | JULIA MUELLER

Posted on 07/03/2023 7:39:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele last week said that he thought the GOP would have more power in Congress if the party “had our &*^& together.”

“Do Democrats understand how freaking lucky they’ve been that the Republican Party is so bats–t, Trumpy crazy?” former Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh asked Steele on an episode of his podcast “White Flag,” released last week, referencing former President Trump.

“I don’t think they recognize that if we had our *(*( together, this wouldn’t even be close,” Steele said.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) “would be sitting there with about a seven or eight seat majority” in the upper chamber, “and the House would be closer to the numbers that I got in 2010,” the former RNC chair said.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: congress; gop; rnc; steele
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To: thefactor

You actually believe that more that Festerman was a better candidate than Dr. Oz would it’s an actual DR. and a celebrity with millions of supporters. There’s no way that election was legitimate and you know it.


41 posted on 07/03/2023 8:13:18 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: dfwgator

By your logic, States like PA are lost to the Dems forever. I believe that putting up viable Republican candidates will bring voters back. Oz was a terrible candidate. Simple as that.


42 posted on 07/03/2023 8:14:16 AM PDT by thefactor
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To: thefactor

Rick Santorum lost his election by 18 points....18 Points!


43 posted on 07/03/2023 8:16:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our “&*&*” is that to many republican candidates place politicing ahead of ballot disseminating, gathering,and “counting”.


44 posted on 07/03/2023 8:18:18 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 (Until we turn off the corporate media, good news/bad news, links, and references, they win.)
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To: Blue Highway; All

Yup, they’re all terrible.


45 posted on 07/03/2023 8:19:47 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Slavery was immoral.

Abortion is immoral.

Slavery was eliminated by many states individually before being eliminated nationally by Amendment XIII.


46 posted on 07/03/2023 8:20:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“By 1910, abortion was not only restricted but outright illegal at every stage in pregnancy in every state in the country. These abortion bans had some exceptions in instances to save the patient’s life — a decision that only doctors, 95% of whom were men, had the power to make.”

“Unsafe, illegal abortion was the cause of death for nearly 2,700 women in 1930.”

“In 1962, a pregnant TV host who ingested thalidomide could not obtain a legal abortion in the United States. The media tracked her journey to get an abortion in Sweden, and 52% of Americans supported her.”

“Between 1967 and 1973, four states — Alaska, Hawaii, New York, and Washington — repealed their abortion bans entirely, while 13 others enacted reforms that expanded exceptions. Instead of just allowing for abortion to save the patient’s life, they now allowed it in instances where a pregnancy was dangerous for the physical or mental health of a patient, fetal abnormalities, and when the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.”

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/abortion-central-history-reproductive-health-care-america/historical-abortion-law-timeline-1850-today


47 posted on 07/03/2023 8:27:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: FarCenter

Nope. Not buying this at all.

The GOPe was complicit with the Commies and Deep State Maggots in working against President Trump from the very beginning.


48 posted on 07/03/2023 8:27:46 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“We”?! “We” my ass!

There aim’t no “we”. There is us and RINO/Dems like you Steele. Name should be “Tin”.


49 posted on 07/03/2023 8:36:30 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From Wikipedia:

Sherri Chessen (born 1932), also known as Sherri Finkbine, is an American former children’s television host. She is also known as Miss Sherri, her role on the Phoenix version of the franchised children’s show Romper Room. In 1962, Chessen became a subject of controversy when she sought an abortion after discovering that the thalidomide she had been taking caused serious fetal deformities when used in the early stages of pregnancy.

In 1961, Chessen’s husband, Bob Finkbine, chaperoned a group of high school students on a European tour, where he purchased over-the-counter sedatives and brought the remainder home. Chessen took 36 of the pills in the early stages of her fifth pregnancy, unaware that they contained thalidomide, which could cause deformity in the fetus. Her physician recommended that she obtain a therapeutic abortion, the only type permitted in Arizona at the time. To publicize the danger of thalidomide, Chessen contacted the Arizona Republic. Although she was assured anonymity, her identity was not kept secret. The media identified her as “Mrs. Robert L. Finkbine” and “Sherri Finkbine”, even though she personally did not use that name.

Following the paper’s publication of Chessen’s story, the hospital where she planned to have the abortion, wary of the publicity, sought assurance that it would not be prosecuted. When such assurance was not forthcoming, the scheduled abortion was canceled. When her physician asked for a court order to proceed with the abortion, she and her husband became public figures, receiving letters and phone calls in opposition to her requested abortion. A few letters included death threats, and the FBI was brought in to protect her. She also lost her job hosting Romper Room. Chessen’s case was dismissed by Judge Yale McFate, who found that he did not have the authority to decide on the matter.

The Swedish obstetrician who performed the abortion told Chessen that the fetus had no legs and only one arm and would not have survived. The doctor stated that the fetus was too badly deformed to identify gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Chessen


50 posted on 07/03/2023 8:38:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And if it was his kind of GOP what difference would it make?


51 posted on 07/03/2023 8:46:32 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Michael Steele was, is, and apparently will always be an empty suit with a GOPe paycheck in the mail.


52 posted on 07/03/2023 8:47:35 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m having continued trouble getting crazy about Mitch McConnell.


53 posted on 07/03/2023 8:50:52 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: V_TWIN

“the Republican Party is so bats–t, Trumpy crazy”

Crazy? No. Weren’t full of establishment hacks that allow stolen election and a fully corrupt DOJ, FBI, and CIA (others) to try coups attempts and impeachments.

The non-Trump crazies are the Establishment and RINOs. So, Steele, eat crap and go away.


54 posted on 07/03/2023 9:23:56 AM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, we get a Paul Ryan and a Michael Steele article on the same day. What a bonus!


55 posted on 07/03/2023 9:31:06 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: thefactor

“Um, Dr. Oz was obviously a worse candidate.”

Um, Fetterman can’t even talk and you think Oz was the worse candidate? Just keep believing that.

Voters have a percent to in who they elect, voters aren’t just hanging out ready to make a perfect choice, and, sometimes, voters are blindly stupid.


56 posted on 07/03/2023 9:32:27 AM PDT by odawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Waiting for the Michael Steele Dossier.


57 posted on 07/03/2023 9:36:01 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: FarCenter
Reince Priebus was appointed to serve as Trump’s chief of staff specifically to build and maintain “rapport with Congress.”

There’s no one person who should be held accountable for the GOP failures in 2017-18. It was a group effort. Trump’s contribution was mainly that he was in the impossible position of winning a presidential election while openly opposing his own party’s platform on key issues (immigration and trade). I hold the GOP leadership in Congress responsible for the 2017-18 disaster. The timing of Preibus’ departure as chief of staff in July 2017 was all the evidence you need. He left on almost the exact same day that the “ObamaCare repeal” bill failed in Congress.

At the time, I saw that as a sign that the GOP leadership knew damn well that it had been exposed as a bunch of feckless frauds — failing miserably to enact the one piece of legislation they had been the centerpiece of their political campaigns for more than seven years.

58 posted on 07/03/2023 9:58:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Yup


59 posted on 07/03/2023 10:04:12 AM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Linda Graham getting booed off the stage has the RINO squishes freaked.

Good.

60 posted on 07/03/2023 10:05:09 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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