Posted on 02/02/2009 9:17:17 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox's Chris Wallace that it was "important" to reach out to those voters.
WALLACE: You are one of the co-founders of something called the Republican Leadership Council which supports candidates who favor abortion and gay rights.
STEELE: Yes.
(watch video)
WALLACE: Does the GOP needs to do a better job of reaching out to people who hold those views?
STEELE: I think -- I think that's an important opportunity for us, absolutely. Within our party we do have those who have that view as well as outside and my partnership with Christy Todd Whittman was an effort to build a bridge between moderates and conservatives.
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Thanks!
Not likely. I’m thrilled to have a conservative, charismatic communicator like Steele as RNC Chair.
Psycho-Boy has been shown that link a hundred times. He refuses to acknowledge what Michael Steele said in that interview. He'd rather bury his head in the sand hoping that Michael Steele is still "pro-life" while he actively seeks to mollify pro-abortion voters in hopes that maybe if we allow enough children to be murdered, that maybe 1 or 2 of the murderers will join the Republican party.
Spit!
LOL
you’re dreaming but have fun with it under that big tent reaching out to homosexuals and abortionists
i mean why not right?
He's a spineless RINO whose first act as Chairman of the Republican party was to sell out the pro-life and pro-family movement and go seeking to "reach out" to abortionists and radical homosexuals.
We made a terrible mistake electing him. He will destroy the Republican party by making it the "Democrat Lite" party.
Spit!
Unfortunately Blackwell pulled out and gave his support to Steele. Then Steele turns around and sells out the pro-life pro-family base of the party to seek after the pro-abortion pro-gay marriage radical wing of the democrat party.
Ping
Okay. I want another chairman.
I can’t believe this.
If you are going to be nasty about it don’t bother. You can’t show me where Steele says he’s going to adopt the gay/abortion agenda - because it isn’t there.
That’s only the 2nd time I’ve seen the link. Get a grip.
If that means we can win support while sticking to our principles then why not? There is no contradiction between expanding a party and keeping core principles. This country is expanding. If we are shrinking we’re through.
I wonder if Obama and Dean consider their party GOP lite since they won on the backs of many young evangelicals. I think not. Yet they were able to win their votes.
I warned freepers about Steele when he first started angling for the job in November.
All they saw was a great black hope.
just like they did Powell, Condi and Watts...all lost causes
man....I wish I could be a black GOP guy.
run for podunk office....win
run for bigger office in libland
lose decisively...
talk tough or not and go on FoxNews a few times....
get pic take with Rush and Sean
now you’re ready to run for President and freepers swoon...
so silly....just as knee jerk white guilty as any good Democrat meterosexual
sad truth.....there is no real black conservative IN POLITICS worthy of national office yet
and making one up from make believe is ridiculous and won’t garner one more black vote nor get a sympathetic media
Blackwell endorsed Steele. If Michael Steele is good enough for Ken Blackwell, why isn’t he good enough for you?
I’m tired of moderates Norman.
Try a “real” conservative approach and draw out more stay at home righties...yes, that means more white Christians to the voting booth by default I reckon
No way in the next few years that the Democrat demographics (latin-black-jewish-gay) are gonna all jump to GOP if we go left
and then what....we become Scoop Jackson Democrats...hell, we’re that already
if the GOP are to go Whig, better now than later
Blackwell ran against Steele and then gave his votes to Steele in the last round.
All that says is he and Steele made a deal
I’m not sure the GOP was ever really conservative. I guarantee voting a tax-cheat as treasury secretary and a gun-grabber as AG is not conservative. Neither is open-borders policy and billion dollar bailouts.
Those so-called evangelicals compromised their principles. Obama didn't.
Obama and Dean stuck to their liberal agenda and promised to kill as many babies as they could as soon as they got in office. And they did exactly that.
Now Michael Steele wants to reach out to those who would murder our posterity in order to create some kind of "Big Tent" where pro-abortionists and pro-lifers can find "common ground". Well, the only common ground I will ever share with a pro-abort is the graveyard.
Maybe after all the pro-lifers re-register as independents, maybe then Michael Steele will decide to reach out to us instead of those who want to see another generation of Americans slaughtered in the womb.
It is time to vote with our feet. We need to walk out of the Republican party in droves and let them know why. This is the one issue I will never compromise on. And it was the first one Michael Steele decided to compromise on. That means that Steele and I share no common ground.
I care every bit as much about life as you do, and long for the day when young and old alike are protected by law. I put my money where my mouth is, and gave hundreds of dollars to pass that prop. in your own state in 2006 that would have outlawed abortion, which still won 44% of the vote despite being outspend 8:1. Those are not the actions of a RINO. We have to get there, however. Step-by-step. As I was discussing with another FReeper on this thread - one who identifies herself as pro-choice: no one likes abortion, and many self-identified pro-choicers would just as soon see the need for it done away with as a matter of cultural change, beyond mere political change. Michael Steele can bring folks around to our side if we're patient and not too "my way or the highway." Do you not think that it really is in his heart to end this tragedy against women and children?
Very few want abortion - not even most self-identified pro-choicers. I believe something like only 20% favor current abortion policy as determine by Roe, to say nothing of FOCA.
Let's start acting like the majority that we are, and in doing so - not in a cocky way - win over those who are reasonable people, for whom abortion is not a #1 issue. Let's not act like kooks.
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