[familyop]

In the video behind the link, you'll hear what Michael Steele and the Republican Party effete had to say to any of those of us who disagree with them. I transcribed the following excerpt from the dialog for you.

"RNC Chairman Michael Steele on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace" (video)

Republican National Committee
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Wallace: I want to start with something that you said in your victory statement on Friday just after you were elected by the RNC, and here it is.

Steele: We want you to work with us. And for those of you who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over.

Wallace: Who were you talking about? Who...who are...are you thinking may want to obstruct?

Steele: I'm thinking...uh, both inside and outside the Party.

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Alright. I'll take you up on your threat!


Excerpts from On the Issues:

Michael Steele on Civil Rights

Click here for OR .

• Support affirmative action and its improvements. (Oct 2006)
• Affirmative action programs still necessary to close divides. (Aug 2006)
• We're still discovering affirmative action in corporations. (Apr 2006)
• Led commitment to $70M in grants to minority-owned business. (Apr 2006)
• Move struggle to right to own the diner, not just sit in it. (Oct 2005)

More:

Standardized tests keep teachers from educating students. (Aug 2006)

Reinstate college-level grant and loan programs. (Aug 2006)

Revitalize the Chesapeake; focus on open space preservation. (May 2006)

Independent-minded bridge between two parties. (Oct 2005)

Quote from Steele's comment in interview:

Society should draw lines. What do you need an assault weapon for, if you're going hunting? That's overkill. But I don't think that means you go to a total ban for those who want to use gun for skeet shooting or hunting or things like that But what's the point of passing gun laws if we're not going to enforce them? If you want to talk about gun control, that's where you need to start. We've got 300 gun laws on the books right now. At the end of the day, it's about how we enforce the law.
Source: Washington Post interview Oct 16, 2006


Steele: GOP Should Reach Out To Gay, Pro-Choice Voters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176753/posts


Excerpted comment made by Steele on his work for Christie Todd Whitman's Republican Leadership Council (RLC):

This may be a unique opportunity to build a relationship or a bridge between the conservatives and the moderates in our party and so she asked me to serve on her board and I said well this will be good. It’ll be a pro-life conservative voice on a board with a pro-choice leadership that is looking to elect moderates. We have to elect moderates in the party.

From "Michael Steele to his Conservative Critics: Wake Up People!" (David Brody interview, CBN News)


Obama Smiles

Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review
January 30, 2009

Excerpt:

And then there is Eric Holder...As a top Obama adviser, Holder...In a radio appearance last week, Michael Steele, a Holder supporter who is a candidate to become head of the Republican National Committee, explained this, er, strategy. We have to be smart about picking our battles, he told a disgruntled conservative caller. Steele asked, is there any real chance of beating Holder? When she conceded there was not, he replied, with evident self-satisfaction: Why would I want to get into a fight we can’t win? He then spoke vapidly about how it was more important to get Holder in power: that, you see, is when we really get to confront him on issues. Somewhere, President Obama was smiling.

Meet The Press
October 29, 2006


MR. RUSSERT: ...Mr. Steele, if you’re United States Senator, would you vote for a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion?

LT. GOV. STEELE: I don’t — vote for a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion? I think we’d have to have that get to the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we? I haven’t seen that bill proposed. I don’t think...

MR. RUSSERT: That’s been introduced in the Senate.

LT. GOV. STEELE: I don’t think anyone’s going to propose that this day.

MR. RUSSERT: So you wouldn’t do that?

LT. GOV. STEELE: No.

MR. RUSSERT: Would, would you encourage — would you hope the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade?

LT. GOV. STEELE: I think that that’s a matter that’s going to rightly belong to the courts to decide ultimately whether or not that, that issue should be addressed. The, the Court has taken a position, which I agree, stare decisis, which means that the law is as it is and, and so this is a matter that’s ultimately going to be adjudicated at the states. We’re seeing that. The states are beginning to decide for themselves on, on this and a host of other issues. And the Supreme Court would ultimately decide that.

MR. RUSSERT: But you hope that the Court keeps Roe v. Wade in place?

LT. GOV. STEELE: I think the Court will evaluate the law as society progresses, as the Court is supposed to do.

MR. RUSSERT: But what’s your position? Do you want them to sustain it or overturn it?

LT. GOV. STEELE: Well, I think, I think, I think Roe vs. Wade, Roe vs. Wade is a, is a matter that should’ve been left to the states to decide, ultimately. But it, it is where it is today, and the courts will ultimately decide whether or not this, this gets addressed by the states, goes back to the states in some form or they overturn it outright.

MR. RUSSERT: Is is your desire to keep it in place?

LT. GOV. STEELE: My desire is that we follow what stare decisis is at this point, yes.

[lentulusgracchus]

You really don't like Steele, do you? You're chasing him all over the site.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Your quote of Steele on 2A]

"If you want to talk about gun control, that's where you need to start. We've got 300 gun laws on the books right now. At the end of the day, it's about how we enforce the law."

In plain English this means, "Screw your gun-control bill, we've got enough gun laws. Don't like what's happening on the street? Arrest the criminals. Quit trying to hassle law-abiding gun owners with your statist crap."

Maybe this will help limn where Steele's coming from on 2A.

Enforcing existing laws is the right answer to gun crime.

[Darkwolf377]

You seem to be trying to make Steele out as some liberal on abortion, but this Q&A doesn’t do that. In the end he is saying this should be tossed back to the states, which is something many conservatives have called for—if that is done, which is clearly his desire, RvW would be null and void.

If you’re trying to paint him as a pro-abortionist, this doesn’t do it.

[Check6]

Abortion? He should simply have given a constitutional conservative opinion, that individual states should have the right to decide the issue.

[LibLieSlayer]

steele is a socialist and is also a racist... for affirmative action and reparations are inherently racist agendas... and steele embraces both so tightly that he has dented them.

LLS

[SumProVita]

Michael Steele is going to be VERY good, despite any naysayers. I would also point out that several items from your list of concerns are taken out of context....such as the comments on standardized testing for students.

Go Michael!! We’re with you!! ;-))

[trisham]

Pro-life, but we have to live with 33 years of reality

Senators cast votes on matters of substance and national import: up or down, yes or no. It is in this area that Steele is less comfortable - and at his most vulnerable as a candidate. It is not always apparent if he can clearly enunciate where he stands - or maybe he just doesn't want to. Even on some of the issues that are closest to his heart, he defaults to soft, imprecise language. Steele says that he is proudly "pro-life" but seemed to equivocate when I asked if he favors greater restrictions on abortion or its outright ban. "The dance we do is, we put too much pressure and weight on one decision," he said, referring to Roe v. Wade. "We have to re-evaluate that." He claimed that he was not advocating overturning the decision, only asking if we "have to live with the reality of a decision that was made 33 years ago."

Source: By Michael Sokolove, New York Times Mar 26, 2006

[Bonaparte]

Like you, I see right through Steele. In the thread’s article, he talks as though the GOP has a good record on immigration and border security. Bush showed that he wouldn’t tolerate a properly regulated border or properly enforced immigration and labor law. Steele is no different. A vote for either major party is a vote for open borders, across-the-board amnesty and North American Union.