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Okay you guys, Michael Steele has been doing some Googling. No one panic. It’s just that, well, you’ve probably already heard about her, but… this Olympia Snowe lady? “I say, Welcome. Welcome. Each member of this party has a unique footprint. And it’s different from region to region. I can’t win in the Northeast with a candidate best suited for the South and vice-versa,” he said on teevee this morning, during which he disagreed with Tim Pawlenty’s criticism of Snowe’s liberal-ish proclivities. Oh but so anyway, because it is Michael Steele, his current M.O. is of course diametrically opposed to his public stance on this exact issue from ten months ago.
Recall back to February, when Steele said, quote, “Oh, yes, I’m always open to everything, baby, absolutely” in response to the question of whether he would deny RNC funds to candidates who deviate from moderate GOP positions, which, also according to that very Google, Snowe has been doing. Is it possible that what he meant by “everything, baby, absolutely” was some sort of conditional “maybe”? Yes. Yes this is entirely possible.
Quit trying to spoil Michael Steele’s juice.
Can we keep this guy in charge of the GOP forEVER?
Mikey, you’re toast, you know that, right? Next RNC convention, you won’t even be given a seat at the speakers table.
“Oh, yes, I’m always open to everything, baby, absolutely” is the same as saying “I don’t have any position at all, I just go with the flow like a dead fish, baby”
Hey, what happened to the Politico ban? I was shocked to follow the link and find myself at that sight.
Of course, what’s probably happening is that, with all the conservative true believers attacking Snowe for heresy, Steele’s afraid that she might be pulling a Specter. Quick, Erik son of Erik, send more Rock Salt; that would be a true victory for Republicans!
“I can’t win in the Northeast” True dat. Not nevermore. You done. See NY23
When Micheal Steele talks, I turn in to unfrozen caveman lawyer. His words frighten and confuse me.
If he loves Snowe so much, why doesn’t he just opposite marry her? You can still do that in Maine.
ForTheTurnstiles: No, because if he remains in charge the GOP won’t be AROUND forever.
“As long as it takes” seems like a good time-frame, though.
“Oh, yes, I’m always open to everything, baby, absolutely” means precisely what it sounds like it means: “I am as high as a motherfucking kite”.
When I hear those words, in my mind, because I never actually heard them spoken by Michael Steele, all I hear is the cadence and accent of Austin Powers: “Oh, yes, I’m always open to everything, baby, absolutely!”
Terry: Now that the party has stopped even pretending not to be racist, yeah, he’s gone.
Ebony and Ivory. It still sickens.
Now that conservatives have proved that while they can’t sail the boat, they can damn well sink it, Steele realizes he needs all the help he can get. He’s sorta the hip-hop Czar Nicholas II, incompetently trying to govern the party while a revolution he never saw takes place beneath him. Which assuages my disappointment from last night a bit.
At some point in the not too distant future, Mr. Steele will be writing his memoirs, and I bet a big topic will be “What the FUCK was I thinking accepting that RNC Chair position????”.
If I remember Steele’s political career correctly, he couldn’t win much period.
He’s got to stop taking direction from former Miss America contestants:
http://bit.ly/3ppyiu
(satire)
You mean the unique footprint Olympia Snowe would leave in your primary candidate’s ass, Mike Dogg?
This guy has precisely ZERO friends in his party. There are the Erick Ericksons of the world, who loathe him for not being ideologically pure enough (black), and there are the Eric Cantors and John Boehners of the world, who hate him for being a bumbling clown, and also black.
It’s not surprising to see him reverse himself, considering that he has the Reverse Midas Touch.
Hey Mikey, lead balloon much?
Zadig: So Steele and I have that in common, as I also have zero republican friends. Which I take as a compliment.
Zookeeper Steele has a “RINO” problem coming from the Limbaugh parrots and fox news cages of the conservative zoo. Let them hurl feces.
Terry: “Next RNC convention, you won’t even be given a seat at the speakers table.”
Wonder how many of them will give them theier keys or coats to check, though? (Or just totally dispense with being PC & give him a mop & broom.)
If he were smart, he’d quit screwing around in politics and sell those nice sunglasses and hats. I’d like to have one of each.
Steele lost 2 winnable congressional elections yesterday. Fortunately for him the media’s consumed by their totally wrong (ask Nate Silver) “conservatives win significant gov races” meme so he gets to keep his job as the right’s Stepin Fetchit.
ForTheTurnstiles: The initial response would be “Yes! Of course we can because he is black and we’re kind of stuck with him lest we look racist.” But then “racist” is quickly turning into a word only knee jerk liberals use, just like “arugula” and “government”. And, for the record, we have yet to see Steeley’s birth certificate.
From the Baltimore Sun. The comments are comedy gold.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2009/11/what_do_tuesdays_elections_mea.html
Well, I played Google this morning, and all I found out was it is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Hooray!
He then threw his microphone on the floor,
threw his arms up in the air, and yelled,
“where the white women at?”
The problem here is that you’re trying to find meaning in Michael Steele’s words. This is a bit like those people who look for 9/11 predictions in the Bible
Servo: Again we see how NY 23 was a win for Republicans(I don’t see it but then I can spell and read). Also the idea that Virginia was some sort of incredible triumph but only 39% of the electorate came out.
Well, someone was reading the NY-23 results this morning while eating his Wheaties.
Servo: Right you are, especially this bit of Freudian slippage… Right now I’m thinking Jeb Bush, Lez Cheney as the winning Republican ticket in 2012!
He loves him some Snowe, baby, and he loves him some rock salt. SEA WATER, bitches! It’s what he’s made of.
hobospacejunkie: I wondered if it was just me who was heartened by the Congressional races, and laughed at the MSM’s fixation on the Republic’s sweep meme. Sweeping what? Two gov seats, one of the Dems a Wall Streeter? Let’s look at Crist and Rubio, now that’ll tell us what ny-23 told us. Eventually the MSM will get it right.
No, they won’t.
Oh, yes, I’m always open to everything, baby, absolutely…
In the future, Steele will be forced to clarify that, by “baby”, he includes the unborn.
“I can’t win in the Northeast with a candidate best suited for the South and vice-versa.”
“I”?
Did you all hear that, Mitch McConnell? The dark fella said “I” as in that Mickey Spillane novel, “I, The Party.” Oh, someone’s gonna get a whippin’ now.
Jim89048:
I used to have Republican friends, but they all strangely became Independent friends. I have one Republican acquaintance left, but he mainly sits at the bar at the American Legion all day drinking and expressing his concerns about the Red Chinese amassing in the Panama Canal Zone.
Scruffy_The_Janitor: Also, “Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”
finallyhappy: I don’t see it but then I can spell and read
Well la-di-da Ms. Literate. Take your elitism elsewhere, snob!
Servo: I refuse to believe this comment is real:
“The Kenyan born Obama has been defeated. We will march on Wash DC and impose our RIGHT thinking will on America, and take it back from these commie, muslim, liberals! Right now I’m thinking Jeb Bush, Lez Cheney as the winning Republican ticket in 2012!”
Which one of you wrote that?
Servo: Ha! My summary of the Baltimore Sun comments:
“You’re and bias idiot who left there father land & Obaba READICAL AGENDA PRINCIPALS!”
I swear he did a gansta pose on Morning Joe this morning at 8:04 am. And I think he did some kind of “snap”, but I was brushing my teeth and it was blurry. If there is video, please find it.
Servo: “The Obama style priorities and spending have already trashed California…”
Ha! We were trashed well before Obama took office. Suck on that, anonymous reader of the Baltimore Sun!
Terry: My brother was a Republican but they lost him at the ‘92 convention. I think it was halfway through Buchanon’s speach, to be exact.
June Cleaver 2.0: they got their precious storyline to follow, dontcha know?
Country Club Jihadi: http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3825873
What a clown. I declare “assume the Heisman position” the new meme to indicate when someone behaves like a complete idiot. We’ll probably wear it out by the end of the day.
Terry: Cape Clod: My gay uncles quit the Republican party in 1980, when Reagan told them they weren’t wanted anymore. “Because I live an alternative lifestyle,” my one uncle put it. I have yet to hear him utter the word “gay,” but he assumes everyone knows, and they do. Even Ronald Reagan.
Jim89048: The difference is that Steele’s lack of Republican friends isn’t for lack of trying, or lack of available Republicans.
Whiskeybaby: My first suspect is Shorts, but the commenter misspelled “muslin” and didn’t allcap enough.
So Michael Steele needed to be photographed with the Boston Terrier to have any hope of a Republican winning in the Northeast. Was there another photo for use in the South, in which he posed with a Blue Tick Hound?
pub_option: Uh, I think they used Blue Ticks to hunt guys like Steele in the south
“always open for anything” means he’s well-lubed and has been practicing with a speculum.
Wait, so Steele realized that the thing where the governors won after keeping Palin at arm’s-length and Hoffman the big crazy Becktard lost stupidly after forcing Scuzzlebutt the ACORN-lover out, that it was maybe a good idea to keep the RINOs around rather than driving them into the loving arms of teh libruls? And Erik son of Erick thinks the exact opposite?
Must be because of Steele’s “street experience”.
Whiskeybaby: I also love
“Your’e wrong”
At least they’ve started to recognize that apostrophes are actual punctuation (and not just intensifiers), even if they’re a bit unclear as to where they go.
Oh I knew he’d take all the credit for the “wins” of the Republicans due to his flashy new GOP hip-hop faceplace bookface site on the internets.