Posted on 03/02/2009 3:20:29 PM PST by Dan Nunn
Conservatives (especially on this site) were in part responsible for the Republican selection of the weakest of a weak field rather than the strongest of a weak field. That said, the primary system IS broken.
But this little tiff... damnit, Steele should have been smart enough to not get roped into that.
Sadly, conservatives are being betrayed by the very people who want us to support them and give them our money, time and talents to help their guys get elected or reelected.
This is the problem with people who are afraid to say what they believe. Steele wants to be liked, so he sucks up to whoever he is talking to and puts his foot in his mouth. Then he lies and gives a fake apology. I generally believe an apology under pressure is phony. I’m no longer a Republican. I’m tired of being associated with that bunch of sad sack elite liberals.
It’s ok. I’m just a little upset at being protected from terrorism then being shoved into a communist coup at the end of his two terms. With wide open borders and nationalized banks.
That post may just redeem you... a little bit anyway.
Not that it should matter much anyhow.
Well then you need to step down. Sucking up to liberals is NOT going to bring us all together.
Michael Steele=Obama 2012. Disgusting.
Steele says it’s all a silly little oopsie AFTER he gets his ass handed to him. Too late, Mikey, you can’t unring that bell.
Rush to Steele: suck it.
No one defines me. I listened to the "crap" once and, admittedly was surprised by it, but it only took the one time. I will, though, also admit that the first time it happened I was taken aback and not prepared for what was thrown my way. It happened once. Not again. I hope that is the same for Steele. Working in a male dominated world has nothing to do with it.
For the record, my dad and my three brothers helped raise me while my mom worked the third shift at the factory and my dad got home from the factory at 3:00 to take over taking us to all our baseball, basketball, football games and practices. And yes, there were scholarships that followed. Waaaaaay back in the '70's.
Why didn’t Steele just say, “Well, whatever you think of Rush, what do you think of his comment that the longest war in America is the War on Poverty, and the same people that have been receiving aid for 50 years are still claiming they need help?” Would that not have been a better response the basically agreeing with a brutha? it would put it back on the questioner and change the focus to a substantive issue, rather than a personality.
Even a drunken sot could come up with an argument like this in a bar, why can’t Steele when he’s sober?
Exactly right, mom. He is a politician without principles.
That is why he claims he is pro-life to some and says R. v W. should stand to others.
I was very proud of Rush standing up for his principles. That is something I don't believe Steele will ever understand.
You are exactly right. Steele has to go. I’m embarrassed today. We need to speak with one voice and today’s shenanigaNS make us look like idiots.
Well, I can think of one. Steve King in the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. Ann Coulter has spoken very, VERY highly of him. There has been talk of his running in 2010 against Chet Culver in the Iowa governor’s race. A successful race in 2010 and he would be a great presidential candidate in 2016, IMO.
Ah hell,you aint alone.The republicans are almost as bad as the rats.There are a bunch of nanny staters in the republican party as well.I dont see a way clear to save the party because we just cant,wont,dont trust them.Time for a conservative party in spite of what the naysayers bleep on about.
“Michael Steele has been around long enough to know that the liberal media will use him by twisting what I say or what others say. He took the bait, he bit down hard on the bait, he launched an attack on me even though the premise of what was said to him was false.”
Michael Steele should have answered the question correctly. He should have said, I want the country to succeed but the Obama Administration's policies need to be defeated. Obama’s massive spending and taxing and nationalization plans, will destroy this nation and they need to be opposed. Mr Steele should have seen the truth in Rush's words and spoke up for Rush.
This strategy to tie Rush around the neck of the Republican Party could have been easily countered by reestablishing the context that the DemonRATs omitted.
Finally, Rush really nailed it today:
“I'm going further and telling you today it's not that I want Obama to fail; that's not it anymore. The president is presiding over economic failure. The president is watching it, doing nothing about it. He's watching unemployment grow; he's watching the stock market plummet; he is watching people sign up for unemployment. The president of the United States is doing nothing to stop the downward spiral of this economy. He has no economic recovery plan. The truth is, the president of the United States and Rahm Emanuel, who, remember, said, “Crisis is too great a thing to waste.” What does that mean? They want you suffering, they want you miserable, they want it worse, they want you rejecting conservatism. They want you rejecting capitalism. They want you turning to them in fear and desperation and angst for an immediate fix to the problem. They want you thinking you have no ability to fix your own problems. They think you have and they want you to have no ability to take care of yourself. So as the stock market now approaches minus 2,800 since Obama was elected, the statement today is to speed up the economic recovery, we're going to focus on health care. Ask yourself how that is going to get you your next job?”
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