Whenever absolutely anything goes wrong, immediately fire the nearest communications director. This is a law, in our politics. It would follow, then, that Michael Steele would have already gone through all the communications directors on Earth, multiple times. Well! This recent RNC communications director, Trevor Francis, had only been at his job since March but lasted til yesterday, when Steele fired him to death because Steele was sad he, Michael Steele, did not receive “enough credit for the GOP’s electoral success earlier this month.”
What up:
A former official at public relations giant Burson-Marsteller, Francis was tasked with trying to keep the voluble Steele on message and explaining away the instances when he strayed.
While still occasionally committing gaffes, Steele has become more disciplined in his frequent TV appearances.
But after Republicans won the closely watched gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey this month, Steele expressed frustration that he wasn’t receiving accolades for the party’s success, said the two Republicans, both of whom conveyed frustration with the chairman’s leadership style.
“So the reaction was: Get rid of the communications director,” carped one of the Republicans.
Mo’ money!/Change the game/What up, for a second time.
[POLITICO]
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I love the “electoral success” of losing two more republican seats in an off year election.
can we change the definition of other words too?
The republican jobs program: Every unemployed person in the US gets to be the RNC communications director for an hour. Not planned that way of course, just how it turns out.
Whatever happened to the good ole days when they just beheaded incompetent underlings?
The DNC should send Steele a check for his excellent work.
Damn it’s gonna be ugly, I mean awesome, when they get around to firing this clown.
How does Steele figure he deserves accolades for letting happen a large victory against an unpopular candidate in Virginia and a eking out a narrow victory against a loathed incumbent in New Jersey? The Virginia race is one that no one would have to have even tried at, and the New Jersey race is one that even the Republicans should have blown out this year.
If he’s asking for recognition for not fucking up too terribly badly (except where NY-23 is concerned,) then all right, he’s got a point. Come on, pin the medal on his chest already.
Yes…it’s totally Steele’s doing that NJ residents flipped out about having the highest property taxes in the country. They could have run a Green party tree hugger against Corzine, and he would have won if he pledged to cut taxes.
Guy was fired solely because he was white AMIRITE?
Michael Steele will be free to let his freak flag fly again! This is a clear win for Wonkette, and Michael Steele should get full credit for this.
I’m thinking Palin Man for Chair of the RNC.
B-b-b-b-ut what happened to Steele’s new hip hop GOP? I’m still waiting, anxiously.
Note to future RNC communications directors: Practice your fellatio regularly, I can’t stress this enough.
Don’t fire him until after the 2012 election.
Trig will be ready to take the helm then.
It was Steele who went back in time and tricked Corzine into having a high-speed auto accident without a seat belt on, revealing Corzine to be an arrogant and reckless person and a former head of Goldman Sachs, although that may be redundant. AIG was all the seat belt I needed, baby! Counterparties RULE!!!!
So who picks the new communications director, Michael or his puppeteer?
I had no idea they had a Communications Director. Or least, one that was actually functional.
Ah the joys of working for an organization that redefines “success” to equal the most recent train wreck. That, plus the first person to invoke Ronald Reagan wins.
Cap in yo ass.
[re=465540]WadISay[/re]: Ya ever watch republican primary debates? They will actually say things like “you are not truely reagan-like; I am the most Reagan-like,” and “I have been consistently Reagan, you profess false Reaganism.” Really, I mean this, they say these things. Its bizarre and hilarious.
Neh, be like Grannie Palin and quit, then go on a triumphant book tour. Fight back TEH CROWDS!
“While still occasionally committing gaffes, Steele has become more disciplined in his frequent TV appearances.” Hahaha. This is funny, because it’s a lie.
Also, fantastic “The Wire” reference, Juli.
The Republican National Committee was surprised to learn that Francis in fact had not fronted the Pixies, which was important to their hiring decision eight years ago, when they were trying to create a “grunge/alternative” Republican Party.
Sources close to Michael Steele have mentioned several names in the running for communications director of his new “hip-hop” Republican Party, to include Master P, Young Jeezy and Gerardo.
Because Burson-Marsteller did such a stellar job re-branding Blackwater, does not mean they can please the Black Godfatha’. Also, I thought it was cred, not credit.
[re=465548]ohiolobbyist[/re]: You come at the king, you best not miss.
[re=465545]Prommie[/re]: Might it be that Alzheimer’s is a sexually transmitted disease and these people whereof you speak became infected in the course of fellating the glorious leaders remains?
His reign as whatever he is for the GOP resembles that of a young, enterprising Harland Williams. Step into his office!
Firing people. Not only is that leadership I can believe in, but it’s a job with built in irony.
I can see I need to pick up some of the slack, what with all the pre-turkey sloughing off going on around here:
Today we are all inappropriately-fired RNC communications directors.
Yo!
Sounds like someone is feeling underappreciated, if such a thing is possible when talking about Michael Steele.
“Change the game”
I, for one, will consider my script officially flipped.
He should be getting much more credit for that whole Scuzzlebutt thing — STEELE FTW!
Next RNC communications director: Steele’s little enema doggie.
Since my cheering on of Ohio State was obviously instrumental in the Buckeyes’ recent win over Michigan, I demand that OSU ‘credit’ me with a new 60 inch flat screen HD-TV in return.
[re=465548]ohiolobbyist[/re]: He just wants his people to understand that he’s the queen. The get shit done piece.
It’s a bad sign (delusional, actually) when somebody starts to believe their own spin. It’s a clear sign of the End Times.
The party ensconced in the White House last won the New Jersey governor’s race in 1985. In Virginia it was 1977.
That’s a trend. Damon Runyon wrote, “The fight doesn’t always go to the strong nor the race to the swift. But that’s the way to bet.” In other words, don’t fight the tape.
Mr. Steele is upset because he didn’t credit for an well-established pattern repeating itself.
Excuse me, stewardess. I speak cow.
[re=465655]Extemporanus[/re]: Moo Moo, baby!
[re=465561]snideinplainsight[/re]:
Steele Hires ‘Father Of The Modern Attack Ad’ To Run Communications Shop and He Ain’t Got No Pussy Name Like Trevor
See last line:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/24/castellanos-rnc-communications/
[re=465686]S.Luggo[/re]: See, if Steele hired Chuck D to be his communications director, then I’d give him some credit.
I’d always thought of Steele as some kind of confused buffoon; it’s a little sad to see him revealed as an egomaniac in actuality.
[re=465555]DoctorCulturae[/re]: What good is being H.N.I.C. if you can’t hire and fire at will. I can say that too because I’m, uh, “near.”
[re=465629]Tundra Grifter[/re]: Incorrect. Virginia elected at least two Democratic governors during the Reagan-Bush I era: Chuck Robb in the early 80s and Doug Wilder around 1990 or so. Might have been more, those are just the two I remember off the top of my head.
[re=465915]imissopus[/re]: The pattern is, whichever party wins the White House in year X, the other party wins VA & NJ in year X + 1. Also.
[re=465530]Diana Davies[/re]: Well now they got rid of this loser hip hop is back.
And the Reagan Revolution is eating its children.
Steele: Let my people go! No, really, let the whole damned lot of ‘em go; they are worthless to me, bunch of worthless-assed, layabout griters…Let them eat icecream cake.
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