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At RNC, Michael Steele is man who doesn’t exist
Washington Examiner ^ | 8-26-2012 | Byron York

Posted on 08/25/2012 10:26:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 08/25/2012 10:26:41 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

He made a deal with the devil. Let him revel in his contract and be discarded with the rest of them.


2 posted on 08/25/2012 10:31:01 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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As it happens, Steele is in Tampa, but only, he says, in his role as an analyst on MSNBC.

My my, isn't that special.

3 posted on 08/25/2012 10:37:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Steele sold his soul when he decided he would start his commentating career and started making just stupid comments


4 posted on 08/25/2012 10:39:41 PM PDT by Nifster
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Steele was the one of the first black Pubbies’ to be shown the racist side of Dumocraps when he was pelted with Oreos..literally. Aside from that, he just sucked being the RNC head and got voted prez due to white guilt-ridden GOP-Ers.


5 posted on 08/25/2012 10:48:20 PM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: max americana

yup. I was hoping that the GOP would have had the sense to pick Ken Blackwel instead but noooooo


6 posted on 08/25/2012 10:56:18 PM PDT by Nifster
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Thank God we have Priebus and not Steele this time.


7 posted on 08/25/2012 10:58:32 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: smoothsailing

First good news out of RNC in years!


8 posted on 08/25/2012 11:00:45 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: smoothsailing

Steele is at MSNBC? That explains why I haven’t seen him in ages and why he doesn’t exist. No one sees him.


9 posted on 08/25/2012 11:10:55 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. --George Orwell.)
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10 posted on 08/25/2012 11:20:43 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: smoothsailing

Grand old GOP loyalty at play again. I guess the GOP’s upset that Steele didn’t marginalize the Tea Party enough. Left them a lot of catch-up work to do like redistricting Allen West out of existence and banning him and other real conservatives like Palin and Gingrich from the convention.


11 posted on 08/25/2012 11:30:50 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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The successes of 2010 were due to 1 - Obama.2 - the tea party. Steele was a bystander. Preibus accepted the tea party in Wis. That’s why he’s chairman and partly why Ryan is VP selection.


12 posted on 08/25/2012 11:33:10 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: smoothsailing

Steele was a walking, breathing gaffe


13 posted on 08/25/2012 11:42:12 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: smoothsailing

Steele should not feel bad. A better man than him who did more for Conservatism than Steele could ever dream of,was not invited either. Of course, I am talking about Sarah Palin who has more testosterone than Team Mittens and all the Pubbie elite snobs put together.


14 posted on 08/25/2012 11:49:17 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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What the hell good is having a black party chairman when he won't defend Republicans against blanket charges of racism?

And now he can't keep his mouth shut. He's gotta whine to the press about being mistreated cuz’ no one will talk to him. I'm sure it's your skin color...couldn't be because you were a train wreck of a chairman.

RNC spends nearly $2,000 at sex-themed Voyeur nightclub

Steele can KMA.

15 posted on 08/26/2012 12:00:08 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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A better man than him who did more for Conservatism than Steele could ever dream of,was not invited either.

Sarah Palin was invited and offered a speech during primetime and declined according to the party chair's interview with Mark Levin.

This is consistent with Palin's statements (on Greta talking about Akin) and activities on behalf of contenders down-ballot races--she'll be in Arizona.

16 posted on 08/26/2012 12:07:51 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 71 days away.)
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Sarah Palin was invited and offered a speech during primetime and declined according to the party chair's interview with Mark Levin.

This is consistent with Palin's statements (on Greta talking about Akin) and activities on behalf of contenders down-ballot races--she'll be in Arizona.

Hmmm.

LOL

17 posted on 08/26/2012 12:17:50 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Do not feel bad about it Steele. Sarah Palin also helped get those 68 seats in the House and some governorships was not invited.

You are the first black chairman and Sarah Palin is the first woman nominated as the GOP VP.

The one that did nothing during the mid-terms is calling all the shots and he does not like black people or women and that person is that lowlife scumbag

ROMNEY. And no Sarah Palin was not invited the convention.

18 posted on 08/26/2012 12:32:16 AM PDT by Truth101A
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To: sgtyork

Preibus is a lowlife scum and looks the part too.


19 posted on 08/26/2012 12:34:35 AM PDT by Truth101A
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To: smoothsailing
Michael Steele was not so much an example of affirmative action but tokenism as the Republican Party reeled from its debacle dealt by the Magic Negro. His appointment was not based on merit but on the notion that the Republican Party could not effectively respond to a black president with a white spokesperson.

Michael Steele not only proved himself to be an ineffectual spokesman, he was afflicted with a serious case of foot in mouth disease which plagued his entire chairmanship. His appointment reflected the vacuousness of the Republican Party which began with the second term of the Bush administration. The victories of 2010 were accomplished not under the guidance of Michael Steele but in spite of his unfocused and even chaotic leadership by the spontaneous upwelling of the Tea Party.

His appointment was all the more unfortunate at the time because the Republican Party controlled no branch of the federal government having lost The House as well as the Senate and the White House. This meant that the party chairman would have to play a very prominent role as a counterpoint to the president, to the Majority Leader of the Senate, to the Speaker of the House. We chose a spokesperson because of his color rather than his forensic skills.

He not only fell short in the public arena but in the behind-the-scenes nuts and bolts business of raising money and rebuilding the party as well.

Many of us pleaded time and again on this forum for his removal.


20 posted on 08/26/2012 12:35:05 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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