Michael Steele ruined everything that is sacred about the God’s Own Party by running for re-election as chairman of the RNC, even though he is a silly individual who didn’t do a very good job. This leaves the party is still struggling to figure out how to get rid of him because he’s, well, one of those. Of course, many had played the trite card by assuming Steele would play “the race card,” because that is how all non-white people attain and keep their political power, surely. Someone named “Mr. Bopp” said this out loud, to pre-empt Steele’s THE RACE CARD, but Michael Steele called this man dumb, because, according to Michael Steele, Michael Steele is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.
From a radio interview last week:
STEELE: Well, Mr. Bopp is an idiot. If he took that away from, and I don’t want to be crass and I don’t want to throw stones at him but I just think that’s an idiotic statement to make. I refer to myself as a Lincoln Republican, that’s who I am. I define myself through the party origins, the party that spoke to and about the freedom and emancipation of all people, not just black folks. […] Jim Bopp has been against my chairmanship from the very beginning, and I understand that, maybe it has something to do with my cutting his million dollar contract with the RNC, I don’t know. Regardless of that, the reality of it is, it’s crazy.
“Oh Snaps! Oh Snaps! Oh Snaps! Oh Snaps!” Michael Steele was thinking in his head, as he said this. (Also, for this entire interview, his voice was autotuned.)
One of Steele’s opponents, a man named Gentry Collins, thinks this Kidz Bop guy is not an idiot. This is important because this guy’s name is Gentry Collins. So yes, the black guy could be replaced by a white man named Gentry Collins. That name is a pretty plausible argument for the use of a race card, actually. [Ben Smith/Think Progress]
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I'm sure Haley Barbour has some helpful ideas that involve sending a few good ol' boys from his local chapter of the totally not-racist Citizens' Council to have a friendly, constructive chat with Mr. Steele. Probably leave a bruning cross on his lawn on the way out just to drive home the point that they're all good Cristians burning to do what's best for the Republican Party.
Michael Steele: The Jackass of Spades.
Steele continued, "Mr. Bopp is so dumb, he probably spends his own money on lesbian bondage strippers. Nah just kidding; he's still a Republican."
Michael Steele cannot play the race card, Michael Steele IS the gop's race card, they played him in a panic over their perception that there was a "Negro-Gap," that they were being out-negroed by the democrats, and now they're just sad that they can't pick him back up off the table and put him back in the deck.
Sounds like someone needs a "final solution" to the "negro question." Is there any way they could be "sent east" for "resettlement?"
anybody got any extra quotation marks I could borrow?
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They are sure to need a "shower" on arrival.
As Harry Turtledove reminded me, THIS is the real reason why we should be glad we didn't let the South go in 1860, because they WOULD have gone all Final Solution when they realised that slavery was less efficient than free labour.
Since the Republicans seem to have decided to drop the pretense and dog-whistling and just go full-on racist, they probably figure they don't need the cover Steele provided while they pretended to attract the votes of black and Latino folk while really just going for non-racist white folks.
It must be the teabaggers; many of them went full racist, and the GOP candidates and officeholders decided to follow their lead.
In the recent elections the American people sent a clear message. Apparently the Republicans are the only ones listening.
Yes, and this was the message: "We don't really pay attention!"
Bingo!
Just supposing that the Steele scuffle is left to play itself for the next, oh, year or so, with the gaffe-prone Brother Steele seeming an unpleasant public face for the formerly most whitist folk's party.
Then on the verge of the 2012 campaign crunch, the presumptive Repub victor could make a real public show of questioning/threatening/ousting the Brother, for what he is playing on this stage … (loutish, gauche, ungenteel, just the sort of uppity they picture themselves re-disenfranchising…..)
And then said Presumptive Repub could, let's see — 'restore honor to the party' in a very very foreshadowy way to show what should be done for Country, next.
Meet President Bob McDonnell or President Rick Perry, disbelieving macacas !!
Can haz southern strategy ?
In 2011 for Jim Bopp they're gone.
In 2011 for Jim Bopp they're not there.
In 2011 for Jim Bopp they're gone.
In 2011 for Jim Bopp they're not there.
Until you lose your hair. But you don't care.
(Them, obviously, means…)
Richie Exeter McPrivilege was asked to run, but had a polo match in Buenos Aires that day.
Mmmmp Bopp?
On a less horrific note… I never thought I'd ever see Mikey Steel man of Rust ever become Black Bart from Blazing Saddles.
Genteel New England GOPer: Gentlemen, gentlemen, let's not let anger rule the day! [waving pamplet] As your intellectual leader, I implore you to pay heed to this good book and what it has to saaaayyy!
[A hole is shot through the "Win One For the Gipper" Pamplet; the New Englander turns to Mikey]
New England GOPer: Steel, you're on your own…
[The people are about to shoot Mikey at his opening speech—until he takes himself hostage]
Mikey : [in a gruff voice, hauling himself by the collar and pressing the muzzle of his gun against his own neck] Hold it! The next man that makes a move, the nigger gets it.
Haley Barbour: Hold it men—he's not bluffing! [all but Ted Nugent drop their guns]
Karl Rove: Listen to him, men; he's just crazy enough to do it!
Mikey: [still gruffly, to Ted] Drop it, or I swear I'll blow this nigger's head ALL OVER THIS TOWN! [pickaninny voice] Oh, Lawdy-Lawd, he's desp'at! Do what he say, do what he saaaayyyy… do what he saaaayyyy… [Ted slowly and reluctantly drops the gun, poops his pants and runs off with a 13 year old Thai girl]
[Mikey slowly moving towards the sheriff's office, still holding himself hostage]
Mann Coulter: Isn't anyone going to kick out that poor man?
Karl Rove: Hush, Mann! That's a sure way to get him elected again!
Mkey: [pickaninny voice] Oh, Oh he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! Somebody He'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me! [gruffly] Shut up! [covers his mouth, pushes himself into the office] Oh, baby, you are so marginally talented–and they are so dumb!
Could woik
Except that the Sheriff was just a happy-go-lucky opportunist. The Man of Steele is a dedicated career-minded opportunist and he is going to ride this gravy train until it either goes off the rails completely or slams into something solid (like a major electoral comeuppance).
If you look on the intertubes you'll see that the steely Steele's smackdown opponent, Gentry Collins, is fond of pink shirts. Should we mention that? Should we?
Matching panties? Just guessing, here.
It is irresponsible not to speculate.
Agreed!
That is probably the very motto of your new media. No, seriously.
some Dems operatives need too infiltrate RNC to ensure that Steele is reelected
We need good humors
He might have an easier time if he identified as a Strom Thurmond/Jesse Helms Republican. That's much more recent and relevant.
And he could also be Strom's grandson. Also.
"Abraham Lincoln!" What else can brother say?
You a black man, brother; whathehell you goin' be Republican fo'?
"Abraham Lincoln!"
Yeah? What that skinny, funny lookin' dude for us lately?
He should do all of his public appearances autotuned, and do his little dance number from the GOP.com (http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/files/2009/10/msteele-v2.gif). Because that would be "street."
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Needs more LOLcats.
Where did this bot get its 12 p? Its only comments are this same bit of blogwhoring, over and over again. The p works in mysterious ways indeed.
Don't upset the p balance! Who know what might happen next?
The dog in the picture was interviewed by HuffPo:
"Yeah, I'm Sparky, and this is my lap-man. He doesn't do much except bark at the Coultergeists and nod his head. I like him anyway. Sort of."
Since technically, a "Lincoln Republican" could be someone who in principle, opposes the expansion of the slavery of black people into the Territories, but isn't actually willing to rock the boat vis a vis slavery if it treatens the collapse of his political coalition, I am actually pretty sure Michael Steele is correct that he is a Lincoln Republican.
You didn't expect him to say he's a Bob LaFollette Republican, did you?
My main point was that this is really as opposed to being a Charles Sumner Republican, even.
He had to go all the way back to Lincoln to find a Republican who wasn't an evil bastard.
Now, someone's forgetting Grant, T. Roosevelt and Eisenhower. The rest of them though, yeah they're pretty much all assholes.
Right now I'd like to see a Tom McCall republican: to the left of the present Democrat median by more than a little.
Bless his heart, but Gentry Collins is about 2 milliseconds away from a sex scandal involving a 13-year-old boy, pleather chaps, and a bushel of cucumbers.
In the GOP that's not known as a sex scandal. It's called "just another Saturday night."
Haha, "bless your heart," cracker-speak for "fuck you."
In the midterm elections, they realized that they can control the govt again without the black vote so they don't really need Steele anymore. Old disgruntled white folks did the trick without minorities or the young educated.
Haha! When in the modern, post-Civil Rights Realignment Era, have the Republicans ever felt any need to attract black votes? That is actually contrary to their success formula! Maybe in some circumstances they have to make "Big Tent" noises "for show" to reassure some feeble-minded independents. Otherwise, fuck the coloreds.
This is a fine example of why the Republicans have been fighting affirmative action all these years.
So Michael Steele is going to be Gentry-fied out of his position? Sounds about right.
Is Gentry Collins going to the South Carolina Secession Cotillion? Because it would be a shame to waste that ball gown he made out of the drapes.
Now now, you're thinking about Lindsey's portiers. Gentry is from Iowa, so his frock is fashioned entirely of corn husks.
Reince Preibus beats Gentry Collins by a nose…
From Dec. 14 Minnpost article about our dear Norm "pulling out": Saul Anuzis, the former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, was a candidate for RNC chair in 2008 and is running again. Ann Wagner, the former Missouri party chair and head of the 2004 RNC convention, has announced too, as has former Iowa chairman Gentry Collins, who was the RNC's political director under Steele but resigned with a blistering statement that accused Steele of letting the RNC's donor base "wither".
Maria Cino, a former Bush administration official has also entered the race. Cino carries ties to Minnesota, as the operations manager of the 2008 RNC convention in St. Paul.
But the frontrunner right now seems to be Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, a prolific fundraiser and former Steele ally who recently oversaw a state party that ousted a Democratic senator, took back its governorship and won two House seats. Sutton said he's backing Priebus because he's a "technician" who will shift the RNC's priorities to fundraising and voter turnout.
Reince? Reince? What kinda name is that? I can't find it anywhere except in reference to Reince Priebus. He's gotta be making it up.
I was assuming the consonants at the front of his name were reversed – but Prince Riebus doesn't really make more sense does it?
Mr. Bopp, the daddy (via rape) of the Citizens United decision, is indeed an idiot. But I wouldn't go long on the career of any Republican official who makes that observation openly.
"Gentry Collins" doesn't sound very street.
Bibble, bibble, bibble.
In fact, it sounds like a cocktail made with vodka, the tears and sweat of the oppressed proletariat, and sour mix.
Why don't they just drop the fricking pretense and select by acclamation, or mehbe acclimation, former Grand Gizzard and Louisiana Rethug State Rep David Duke as Chair?
I am worried that the GOP experience with Mr. Steele will lead Republicans to think that African Americans are a lazy and shifty lot who can't be trusted with money and should be removed from the electoral process.
Hold it!
That's what they already think.
so tell me again, what is it this mr. steele person has done in his current position? besides hold onto it?
You mean also besides supplying an almost limitless source of comedy to Your Wonkettes, too?.
He's kept the party entertained with his Stepin Fetchit routine.
He's been the cow on the tracks.
Then they all put on a new pair of Nikes and rode a comet to heaven.
All hail Bopp! Shooting across the GOP heavens like a comet!
I can picture Steele handing out white sneakers and fruit punch.
Gentry? Haley? Saxby? What's with all the fruity names in the South?
Haley Barbour may yet save Michael Steele's sorry ass. We can always hope.
Reptilian brains.
Steele obviously has the support of the Boston Terrier lobby.
A terrierist, obvs.
He hates America so much that he pals around with terriers. You can't refudiate that!
Michael Steele, the self-made Albatross hanging around the GOP's neck. I just love the way these assholes keep outsmarting themselves.
Not albatross, but Turkey… big butterball-bastey thanksgiving November Surprise Turkey— just keepin' it real and getting fattened up for the big upset in 2012.
Look for the little button to pop out in summer, and watch as he's served up by his own party.
Stalking horse or trojan, he's a political piñata.
And a political disaster.
I can hear it now –
Steele's not the deal,
Let's hop on Bopp!
Noting how many of the Repubs seem to "swing that way", I think they can't get rid of Mr. Steele, because he's, um, a man of steel, if you get my drift.
"I just can't quit you!"
Looks like the GOP wants li'l Mikey out o' the way cause he's bringing down the values of their homes…or some such shit.
Wait, what? The black man fired the white guy? Just cold canceling his contract, leaving his poor children starving on un-aged cheddar grilled cheese sandwiches? And then called him an idiot? In front of other white people? That just isn't the way these things are supposed to work, people!
Not much of a challenge, really. Still, a man needs a hobby.
Steele could go for the genteel racist scum Republican vote but Haley Barbour has already got that demographic in his corner already. And when Haley is in a corner there isn't room for anyone else.
Steele admits to being a Lincoln Republican?! Aren't they the gay ones, who want marriage, repeal of DADT, anti-hate crimes legislation, but mostly big, BIG tax cuts?
I guess there's only one way for him and "Gentry" to settle this. A duel. In Lindsay Graham's mouth.
Lindsey? Is that you?
He can call himself a "Lincoln Republican" when he carries every northern state, and kicks the secessionists out of his party.
Why do you say that Michael Steele did not do a good job? The Republican party, by rights, should have been completely extinct by now. The valiant efforts of Michael Steele, plus the fact the Democrats rolled over and played dead for no explainable reason whatsoever, means they are still in the picture.
Michael Steele is a fucking political genius.
If this particular "MMM Bopp" (yes, I went there) is James Bopp senior he should be dick punched for begetting James Bopp Jr. the little troll we have to thank for the Citizens United case making its way to the Supremes (with an assist by the old woman/turtle combo Mitch Mcconell, but of course and no I don't care if I spelled his last name right). If it's James Bopp Jr. he needs to be dick punched and then forced to watch that three hour block on MSNBC of Olbermann, Rachel and O'Donnell until he snaps and admits he's just a self hating bigot like all wingnuts are. Either way, I'd love to see Michael Steele win the RNC again for two reasons: to keep pissing white wingnuts off who think he's there "'cuz he's a darkie!" and the other would be the Daily Show and their Sesame Street puppet version of Steele so he can "keep protecting our bibbles!"
Would I be wrong to think that the next RNC chair will be even more conservative than Steele, and thus, even more hilarious given that every GOP victory seems to just embolden the whackjobs?
I for one welcome our new landed Gentry (Collins) overlord.
You say the franchise should only be extended to land-owning white men, eh, Mr. Gentry? Ham-on-a-biscuit, that's a brilliant idear!
BTW, if Steele loses, seems to me he'd be the first chair ousted after having oversaw the biggest Republican comeback – or by any party for that matter – in decades.
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