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It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the trials of Michael Steele, the African-American who runs the Republican Party with his peculiar blend of comedic verve. They hate him, the other Republicans, because he wants to try new things. (Also because he is an abortionist.) We had thought that maybe he wasn’t in the news so much anymore because he had been secretly fired and exiled back to Prince George’s County, Maryland, while that South Carolina confederate colonel “Kat-On” assumed his rightful throne. But he’s still around and guess what? This: “Republican state party leaders are rebelling against new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele for failing to dub President Obama and the Democrats as ’socialist.’” Oh my god.
Even though Mr. Steele has called his Democratic adversaries “collectivists,” at least 16 state leaders say the term lacks the pejorative punch needed to sway public opinion and want all 168 members of the Republican National Committee to debate and vote on it.
It is the first time in memory that a sitting national leader of the Republican Party has faced a public challenge over his ideological leadership by conservative members of his own national committee.
Yeah we think the American public has already noted the “pejorative punch” of socialism, since Obama has been called a socialist on every network 10 million times already, for no reason. It’s kind of like during the general election when conservatives got mad at John McCain and the media for “not covering” Bill Ayers enough, even though he had been covered pretty relentlessly. People have this tendency to make up their minds at some point, is the problem! And wacky Michael Steele just wants his party to have more than 35% of the electorate. He must be smoking reefer cigarettes, or something.
Steele urged to label Obama a socialist [Washington Times]
They really want Obama called the ‘N’ word but it’s hard to ask Steele to do it for them.
Maybe he can make up for it by calling Obama a “commie” or a “pinko” or even a “beatnik”. Something cutting-edge like that.
chascates: IF they dangle a presidental run in front of him like the teabags of er yesterday he’ll give
Steele also balked at referring to the Republican Party as “Totally not gay. At all.”.
Steele urged to label Obama a socialist
I recommend he use a Brother P-Touch.
qwerty42: I know! Fellow traveler! No, that implies he’s not a commie. OK, ‘commie’ it is.
If the head of the GOP can’t be counted on to denounce the actual governing and somewhat liberal political party of the nation as dangerous Maoist-Leninist-Luocommunists, what good are they?
Yeah Michael, call him a socialist, an anarchist, a commie, a Bolshevik, or even a body snatcher. Anything that helps people understand the Republicans got nothin’ but stupid to throw at Barry.
Or better yet, take your shirt off and stand next to Barry. Again, FAIL.
chascates: He can get away with it if Steele
calls him “my niggah”
Steele should just go for the big bucks and star in the new version of Benson for ABC, now that he has had adequate training.
They’re also mad at him because he went to the Michael Tyson bio pic instead of some religious nut fest.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/michael-steele-attends-ty_n_190521.html
Someone needs to tell the Oreo Bro that he’s black!
Will ‘Home Slice’ suffice?
Oh for fuck’s sake, don’t they realize that calling someone a “collectivist” is much closer to calling someone a “communist” than the term “socialist” would ever be? Didn’t they ever go to college? Just how stupid can one group of people get? GAH!
Well, I certainly hope this GOP splinter group creates an online poll of all the other names they want Steele to call the President.
It’s not like I’d spend all week fucking with that in as many ways as possible.
The resolution’s chief sponsor is Washington state RNC member Jeff Kent, and it calls on the Democrats to be “truthful and honest with the American people by renaming themselves the Democrat Socialist Party.”
Wow — the Caveman Bloody Taint Party (per my resolution) is really floundering, isn’t it?
Call him Mister Tibbs.
OT but Liz Cheney (now on MSNBC with Norah O’Donnell to her credit pushes back on her hard) is just as lovable a curmudgeon as dear old Dad. Can you say nepotism, Liz?
Next vote: Is Michael Steele using the N-word enough?
Do you remember when slavery was outlawed and a ton of former slaves stayed in the south and still worked for their masters?
So does Michael Steele.
That’s the blacks for ya.
Michael Steele is why John Boehner is spending so much time in the tanning bed these days, trying to get hep to the scene, you dig?
Larry Summers falls asleep at the Credit Card Summit and NO WONKETTE?
WHAT UP DAWG? (Michael Steele taught me that, also)
He should call Obama a Whig. Then Robin Gibbs should call Steele a Tory, and then they all can go have crumpets together.
Next outrage: Not denouncing Hugo Chavez as dictitorial beaner…
Leopolt: or Robert Gibbs. Maybe Barry Gibbs could sing for them.
Leopolt: And TEA! Don’t forget TEA!!!
SayItWithWookies: Democracarat Socialist Mandatory Gay Marriage ACORN Bill Ayers Plantin’ Wantermelons on the White House Lawn Also Party Think that will make them happy? Or, I forgot terrorist-lovin’
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
Comin’ forth to carry me home!
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
Michael Steele sellout Negro.
SayItWithWookies: I’m all for it - as long as the Republican Party agrees to be equally “truthful and honest with the American people” by renaming themselves The Republican Fascist National Front.
How about “anti-fascist” because he doesn’t lurv Beck and Limbaugh?
I could see why they are mad. The relentless labeling of Obama as a socialist was what helped the GOP win the election! Oh, wait…
I read a hysterical wingnut thread about this earlier. The thread basically came to the conclusion that what they really need to call him is a “fascist.” The community explained to some liberal trolls that we have actually been living with a government that practices “fascist economics” since FDR.
These idiots would try to put out a flaming bag of dog shit with a can of gasoline.
Some wingnuttery just takes wing and flies so spasmodically that I’m at a loss to even think of anything derisive to say about it, much less snarky. Instead I’m left pointing in its general direction and blurting out “Would you look at that???”
Lynn Westmoreland will probably be running for Governor of Georgia too. That’s another point and blurt GOP fun fact.
Tommmcatt: I know I like being called a socialist, but I’d feel a little emasculated being called a collectivist. Do people even talk that way anymore?
I thought 2006 and 2008 was a bloodbath. These idiots are going to be fighting it out with the Greens for last place in 2010.
I sure hope this vote is taken using reliable voting machines, and those machines are outfitted to generate electro-shock impulses, and those impulses are transmitted directly to the hapless Mr. Steele via implanted electrodes.
Did you ever see a chairman
Go this way and that way?
Did you ever see a chairman
Go this way and that?
Go this way and that way,
And this way and that way?
Did you ever see a chairman
Go this way and that?
(However, I suspect “chairman” is not quite the word they’d be singing.)
Just wondering, but if Obama is indeed “a socialist” and his pretty, teleprompter read, inspiring speeches the mark of a demagogue, wouldn’t the shaking of Obama’s hand by a Republican be a sign of weakness and send a wrong message to our enemies?
Cape Clod: You know, I’d really like to believe that, but my paranoid gland keeps sending out panic enzymes that this is actually part of a devious GOP strategy to make themselves so hopeless and unattractive that people will vote for them out of pure pity. They even have a name for it: OPERATION SUSAN BOYLE.
Hooray For Anything: And the GOP shouldn’t even smile at Obama:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710740265&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Tommmcatt: These people don’t even know what they mean when they say socialist, you can’t expect them to understand the differences between collectivism, socialism, and communism. Nor even to understand that there is a difference. As far as they are concerned you’re either a Real American* or you’re a commie-pinko-fag-junkie (in the words of the brilliant George Carlin).
*read:White Anglo-Saxon Conservative Christian
chascates: They also want to call Steel the N-word, but there’s that whole 11th Commandment thing St. Ronnie promulgated.
McDuff: Not so…I hear Republicans calling him a nitwit all the time.
Republicans: Obama needs to be more bi-partisan. What shall we do? Think of pejorative terms for him!
Please, dear God, there must be some room for intelligent opposition in US politics. I hereby call upon Meghan McCain to start a split-away party for Republican centrists.
chascates: Why does the GOP hate America?
Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic announced a few days ago that he was going to stop writing about Republicans until they “get serious.” I don’t think this is going to help.
chascates: Shmuley Boteach? He’s that publicity whore who glommed onto Michael Jackson back in his early molesting period. Obama’s really bringing out the isopods and nightcrawlers among the political opposition.
so steele became a republican because it was the only place where he wouldn’t be the stupidest person in the room? got it.
user-of-owls: With Obama and Steele, the Republicans are kind of like watching “Blazing Saddles” on basic cable — all the good stuff you know they want to say gets cut out. “Don’t move or the [silence but lips are moving] gets it!”
Kev-O-Tron: I saw a winger who’s some sort of leader in what passes as a political party tell his followers that “socialist” had been used so much that it didn’t have any punch, so they needed to switch to fascist.
When fascist inevidently loses its punch, do they go straight to Hitler? I would say Stalin, but more of the audience is too stupid to know who he was. Really, what’s next? They like to roll with one word labels, so what’s next? Vegan?
YOU MUST CONFORM, MICHAEL STEELE. If you do not conform, you are a communist!
DustBowlBlues: Islamofacism
Hooray For Anything: OMG!! You have totally created Rush Beck’s next talking point. We’re your witnesses! Sue them for royalties the first time they use it.
Then Democrats can start a whisper campaign (on wonkette) that they won’t shake Hopey’s hand because they’re afraid the black will rub off.
DustBowlBlues: inevitably. I really need to proof read.
Before I leave this topic: as someone who lives in the Dust Bowl, it’s my sad job to inform you gay, vegan, pot-smoking abortionists that unlike among you panty-waist liberals, the N word has no shock value among the 35% who love Rush O’Beck. They use it all the time.
“You say Socialist,
I say Nazi,
You say Communist,
I say Fascist
Socialist, Nazi, Communist, Fascist,
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off!”
Then Democrats can start a whisper campaign (on wonkette) that they won’t shake Hopey’s hand because they’re afraid the black will rub off.
“Rahm! Get the shoe polish! This one will really drive ‘em bonkers!”
Oh, I see. The GOP hired Steele to be their translator because, y’know, they can’t speak Jive. Especially Mumblin’ Mitch.
I say we drive them over the edge by wearing red-starred Chavez berets. If it’s labels they want, it’s labels they shall get.
DustBowlBlues: They can’t use Hitler because roughly 50% of their party idolizes him, and it’s cornfusing to thems.
Kev-O-Tron: DustBowlBlues: That was the douchebag from Michigan who didn’t quite make it in the RNC chair race (he was universally considered “too moderate to win”). What was his name again? Saul Anus or something like that?
Joey Ratz: Ha! His full name, as it appears on the MI GOP website, is Saulius “Saul” Anuzis.
SayItWithWookies: There’s probably already one with that name.
Zzhu Bajie
I feel kind of sorry for Michael Steele. He comes across as foolish and comical. It’s clear he’s not the leader of the RNC.
And the esquire Bopp created the Feudalicans and tea baggers from far and wide gathered on the man or near the castle,protected from the muslins,socialist and mexicans TAX FREE.
Wet Work: He falls asleep at everything. The Credit Card Summit, The Fiscal Responsibilty Summit, The Should We Fire Larry Summers? Summit. You can hire him to fall asleep at wedding, bar mitzvahs, ceremonial groundbreakings. There are pictures from Abu Ghraib with him asleep on a pile of naked prisoners. You know The Raft of the Medusa? Guy on the far left–not dead; Larry Summers sleeping.
“Steele threatens Republicans with relavence, they just have to stop being insane.”
“That’s a hell of a lot to ask of us, and he uses words that carry defined meaning, you knows we don’t like dictionaries. Fortunately, we have accepted that eventually the democrats will fuck up just as bad as we did and we’ll win again, simply by being the other party!”
HOORAY FOR THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM!