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Tipster “Matt L.” just sent us the First Ballot results from the exciting Republican National Committee voting for a new chairman to revive the doomed party! And let’s see, current loser RNC chair Mike Duncan has 52 votes, hapless Maryland loser and “moderate black Republican” Michael Steele got 46, South Carolina segregationist Katon Dawson has 28, Michigan GOP loser Saul Anuzis got 22, and “social-conservative black Republican” Ken Blackwell, who couldn’t even deliver Ohio to McCain/Palin, has 20 votes. UPDATE: Steele and Duncan are now tied! UPDATE: Oh shit, Steele in the lead!
This means aThere was a Second Ballot, as they just love to drag this shit out, and the various warring factions of the GOP all literally hate each others’ guts & souls. And then there was a Third Ballot!
It’s especially telling that Duncan had a pretty strong first place finish in this first round, and can probably win a majority of these 168 idiots’ votes by choosing whatever constituency/platform he wants to try in 2010, because he displayed such brilliant strategies in 2006 and 2008, when Republicans were slaughtered, everywhere.
Should he try to fake out some blacks and moderates with Steele? Combine Katon “whites only” Dawson’s traditional Republican southern/wasp racism with Blackwell’s Uncle Tom wingnuttery? UPDATE: Steele and Duncan tied, and then Steele takes the lead with the Third Ballot. But still not enough to win, as he needs a majority. UPDATE AGAIN: Ha, CSPAN switched to Robert Gibbs talking about Saving America, as these fools can’t even pick a chairman for their failed party.
Tragically, the greatest candidate for RNC chair dropped out of the thrilling race last night. Chip Saltsman — the comic genius who mailed all his buddies the HILARIOUS parody song with the white guy doing a wonderful blackface mush-mouthed version of children’s song “Puff the Magic Dragon,” but instead titled “Barack the Magic Negro” — for some reason decided this was not his day. But he’ll be back, surely, maybe to run the new White Separatist wing of the GOP, with Dawson. It will be called the “Ku Klux Klan.” Catchy!
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Michael Steele is the first black man ever to be admitted into the KKK. This is a year of many historic events for teh darks.
Oh, how mavericky!
Michael Steele can demonstrate he’d make an effective Republican leader if he makes it so his vote isn’t counted.
They will elect Steele of course…just to show the liberals that they aren’t the only ones with real, actual, voting black folk.
Ah shit, hand it to Rush already…
This shows that they’re really not thinking about the direction the country is moving. What they really need is a Mexican who has teh gay.
Didn’t he play bass for the Bangles? Now that’s a seks change I can believe in!
The Reuglicans are so brilliant! It’s so original! If they put a Black person in charge, they’ll get all the Black votes, just like when they made a woman their vice-presidential candidate Servo, they got all the women to vote for WALNUTS!
A Republican Death Match is a fucking beautiful thing.
They all look the same to me but suppose they give it to the darker candidate. What party are brown people haters going to join? Republicans just can’t win.
The Rethugs are really trying to reach out to blacks with this Michael Steele character, huh?
Don’t they know that such maneuevers insult the intelligence of black people?
And that Michael Steele is generally regarded as a 21st Century Uncle Tom?
And that their last doomed stunt to drum up support from a large voting bloc, Sarah “Levi” Palin, is still mired in an unprecedented free fall of Fail?
I’m all for Steele becoming RNC chairman IF they make him move to another state. I’m sick of seeing him around Hyattsville. I keep saying that, but I really am. This is a sad, lonely man, the only black Republican in Prince George’s County. His only choice for like minded companionship is to move to a gated enclave in Virginia somewhere or at a VFW post down in Waldorf.
Republicans are just starting to learn about identity politics, and they’re absolutely fucking awful at it.
It’s nice to see democracy coming to a totalitarian state. But after they elect a leader, we should still declare the results illegitimate, build a wall around the RNC and start bombing.
V572625694: beat me to it.
Why don’t they just get RuPaul to do it? She’s black, she has a dick, and she’s a woman!
magic titty: Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
magic titty: Everybody thinks that black people hate white people, but black people actually just hate republicans. This is science, y’all.
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Colander: ESPECIALLY black Republicans.
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Michael Steele is Clayton Bigsby .
Hahaha…wow, they would use a token. Steele is a fuckin fool.
DangerousLiberal: Alt-alt-text: “Bite me.”
Choke on your large, bitter bucket of fail Repugs.