Catholic Michael Steele (former seminarian) takes over leadership of RNC

CNA ^ | January 30, 2009

[gtsamson]

"It is ironic that the political party that began with a strongly religious crusade to free African-Americans from slavery and paid over 300,000 union lives to succeed, now cannot even get 3% of their descendants to vote for it."

Republicans who care about the future of our party ought to be asking why this is so.

[gtsamson]

So you will never support someone who believes in any type of restriction on fire arms? Not background checks? Not bans on fully automatic weapons?

Only extremists speak in such absolutist terms.

[Liz]

“The outcome of the conservative base staying home” is that the GOP had better listen up and figure out they CANNOT AND WILL NOT win without conservatives.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

[gtsamson]

The liberties I mentioned in my post will never come again. Can you name even one elected official in D.C. that, for example, calls for allowing the purchase of fully automatic firearms no-strings-attached by civilians? We have to work with what we have.

[Running On Empty]

I agree. We don’t need to continue turning on our own.

We have a chairman. He’s black. He’s pro-life. Let’s take it and run with it.

[from occupied ga]

from his website when he was in Kongress when he claimed to be catholic.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He hasn't exhibited pro-life views in the past and he is definitely a gun grabber.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Steele is for registration of firearms and firearms owners. My quote should be familiar, if you really are a conservative.

[the invisib1e hand]

he's just a person. apparently a very carefully selected person.

Here's hoping he's the real deal.

[little jeremiah]

It is so because of decades of liberal welfare, affirmative action and other like policies, and race card player “leaders”.

That is why it is so.

[Faithfull]

Great post, no need to apologize. I love FR but have read less posts than in the past. I tire of the petty comments, spelling corrections and bickering. I primarily read only the articles and scroll through the comments only on a few topics. I feel some of the true deep thinkers have left FR and those that post often like to hear themselves talk but have little to add to a ‘higher’ discussion.