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1 posted on 08/25/2012 10:26:41 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why in the world does Byron York think that Steele had anything to do with these great TEA Party victories? Talk about totally out of touch.

The TEA Party saved the GOP while Steele was grossly mismanaging its finances.
And now he has a job as a token Republican at MSNBC. That tells you a lot about his credentials.


31 posted on 08/26/2012 2:20:26 AM PDT by txrefugee
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He is invisible for a very good reason ... there is nothing there.


33 posted on 08/26/2012 3:30:34 AM PDT by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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To: smoothsailing

“But those 63 seats in the House did happen. They may want to ignore me, but they don’t want to ignore what I did.”

The idea that Steele the the GOPe had much to do with those seats is laughable. Those seats came about because of the TEA Party movement and came despite the GOPe’s best efforts to undercut it.

The rest of what I think about Steele is best left unsaid.


34 posted on 08/26/2012 3:35:10 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Steele sold out to nbc to be their token "house pubbie" and they use him and his skin color to denigrate conservatives when they need a "voice of reason" to bash those old white radicals.

I donated to steele's run for MD gov but was really disappointed at his mealy mouthed campaign and his "defense" of pubbies has been sickening.

I wouldn't let him clean the toilets.

37 posted on 08/26/2012 4:10:46 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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ok - here’s my prediction. Trump is going to introduce Sarah Palin as a “surprise” speaker.


40 posted on 08/26/2012 6:01:35 AM PDT by w4women (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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No serious person would credit Steele with the 2010 gains....we made those gains in spite of his anti conservative tirades!!
41 posted on 08/26/2012 6:02:10 AM PDT by ontap
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... to honor GOP chairman Reince Priebus

For what, may I ask?

42 posted on 08/26/2012 6:05:09 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Steele proved to be a worthless RINO and a useless leader. He deserves obscurity as do so many GOPe.


44 posted on 08/26/2012 6:26:53 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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I lost respect for Steele when he cozied up to Al Sharpton and NAN, no one can con a con man and Sharpton is that as well as a criminal.


46 posted on 08/26/2012 9:22:47 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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