1 This man is a complete disaster.

So he is saying that Bush had a BIG margin of error with the MSM?  How the HELL did we ever put this man in charge of anything and WHY wasn't he fired yesterday?

2 I also have a larger cock

3 Steele is Powell-lite. Republican in name only. Should have been out if not for his race.

4 he be a teabagee

5 This guy is a not funny joke.

One disaster after another.

6 and only a hint of a black accent.

7 I am also a jackass

8 Dave in Texas nailed his analysis, which was pretty much a lay down with such blatant material. It's hard to believe that Michael Steele can imply the RNC is racist, and Barack Obama is getting a raw deal, and still conclude Steele represents or is trying to represent the Republican Party. If so, he's delusional and has no judgment at all. And he is selfish with a capital everything.

9 Poor Steele. It's hard to be just like Obama, who has the press competing to see who can polish his knob the hardest in order to see... who gets to officially polish his knob.

10 This is what happens to a black man in America!

11 I hate to say it but this is so bad it almost deserves an own goal flaming skull.

12

Christoph, is there something I could do to piss you off?  Cause I really don't want you on my side, inasmuch as you've been your typical jackass self lately.

 

Kind regards.

13

"...so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way."

Err..no Mr. Steele.  It's because you can't possibly suck anymore than you already do at your job.

What a freakin' douche.  The GOP needs to get rid of this guy now.  He gets butthurt because people have correctly pointed out his epic suckitude and has the unmitigated gall to blame it on racism?

Mr. Steele needs to be kicked in the nuts repeatedly and then fired.

14 Somebody, please . . . give this dolt a pink slip and let's get back in the fight.

15 It's just a bunch of Republicans who can't respect his "streetwise" managerial style.

He's been managing something?  That would be news...

16 It just goes to show Michael Steele is a uniter, not a divider, Dave in Texas.

17 If this is "streetwise" then the street is gonna get fucked up bad.

18

I agree with George Will.

The best party chairmen are the ones who are both effective and invisible.

Steele is, unfortunately, neither.

19
Bye Steele.  You suck.  It's finally become clear to even slow me.

20 Time for you to go. Mr. Steele.

21 What if he shaved his mustache? Would that give him more street-cred? I mean it worked for Alex Trebeck.

22 And Steele's ability to plunge his foot directly and eagerly into the bear trap set out for him comes through again.

"Gee, Mr. Reporter Man, is this what you wanted me to do?"

23 He's pulled out the race card to make it more difficult to remove him.  I'll make this prediction that if he is removed he will lash out and make it very ugly.  He's a fucking traitor to his party and a disgrace to his race.  Fuck Him!

24 clean up and ban on aisle 7 please

25 Wow, I wonder if he's so incompetent that he thinks saying stuff like that is competent leadership.

26 "The best party chairmen are the ones who are both effective and invisible." Yeah, but the worse aren't even those who are ineffective and visible. They are those who argue for your opponents' left-wing base's scare tactics.

27 You have a slim margin for error because you've made so many errors.

28 Is he trying to pre-emptively head off being fired? By pre-alleging he's on a tight leash for being black, now the RNC can't fire him in the short term due to his repeated, massive incompetence and selfishness? Is that his actual game? Or is he clueless?

29 Gravitas?

30 I think he capsized here.  Just sayin'

31 Slap a pair of tits on this guy, and he's a woman!

32 Like I said a few months ago, when he got all "Then fire me!" about whatever the eighth or ninth thing he should have been fired for was, this is where he was taking it. He's a type. Anyone who's worked in an office knows him.

Next time, pick a chairman who doesn't hate you. If you can find one. I don't think there's anyone in the national party who doesn't.

33

Is it possible that Steele is trying to play the Democrat's game and throw it back at them? They use racism for everything. Could he think he is making a smart move trying to use their tactics?

Even if we would give him that, it's still not a smart move. What a huge disappointment he has been.

34

I was excited after people like Ken Mehlman that we were going to have someone outspoken, finally.

 

Yeah, that didn't last long......

35 If he had something other than black skin he would have already been fired. He has gotten a much larger amount of leeway because of his skin color. The guy is trying to row the boat in a different direction than the grassroots is rowing. If he can not get aligned with the masses to win elections, he needs to get off the boat.

The GOP leadership's entitlement attitude is why they lost support over the last decade. If they can not get rid of this entitlement attitude, especially as personified by Steele, they severely handicap themselves going into the elections.

36 "Is it possible that Steele is trying to play the Democrat's game and throw it back at them? They use racism for everything. Could he think he is making a smart move trying to use their tactics?" No.

37 Is it possible that Steele is trying to play the Democrat's game and throw it back at them?

Posted by: Texmom at April 05, 2010 09:47 AM (WzN8I)

Problem is he's not throwing it back at 'them', he's throwing it at Republicans.

38 not just lame, but incorrect
 
Obama gets EVERY benefit of the doubt bcause he's half-black
 
in fact, it's all he's ever had going for him ... that's what PC gets ya
 
Ineptitude, absolved by virture of some magical melanin incorporation into a wasted skinbag

39

Last week I got a donation solicitation call from the RNC. I told the phone dork there was NO WAY IN HELL I was gonna give my hard earned $$$ to the RNC while Michael Steele was the Chairman. I told him I'd write a $500 check to the RNC on the day Steele was fired or tendered his resignation. Until then the RNC wasn't going to get a penny from me.

The guy sighed. Heavily. I was silent for a few seconds. Then I commented "I bet you're getting more and more people like me on the other end of the phone, right? Sick of Micheal Steele and his bullshit?"

The phone dork replied "Yessir, we are, I'm sorry to say."

I guess that should tell them something. Your donations are way down because you have a complete douchebag running the show. He was a horrible govenor and now he's a horrible RNC Chairman.

I was thinking they should offer the job to Sarah Palin...but then she campaigned for McCain. Loyalty SHOULD NOT overcome common sense and principles.

40 So, if I don't give to the RNC it means I'm a racist.  If I think Steele is doing a bad job, it means I'm a racist.

41 Good Morning Morons

I have joined the ranks of "he's gotta go" now.

42 "in fact, it's all he's ever had going for him ... that's what PC gets ya" I wouldn't go that far. They weren't hauling random black folks off the street and making them President that January.

43 "He was a horrible govenor and now he's a horrible RNC Chairman." Lt. governor, but yeah.

44

I give him one because he's a whiney bitch who cannot seem to focus his energies on his actual job, raising money and getting Republicans elected, because of his personal distractions and hyper-sensitivity to criticism.

 

whats funny is that when he ran for lt. gov. he was excoriated by dems for being an oreo, uncle tom, etc. and he never said anything. he's that unfortunate type of repub who can only attack his own party, what i like to call a Frumian Republican.

45

I was excited after people like Ken Mehlman that we were going to have someone outspoken, finally.

 

Yeah, that didn't last long......

Posted by: di butler, unlicensed dog whisperer at April 05, 2010 09:47 AM (S3xX1)

Same here; unfortunately he doesn't say anything smart.  The guy is a walking disaster who needs to be gone now; failing to do that would just be typical Repuke turning any gift from the commiecrats into disaster.

46 So who has the authority to get rid of him?

47

In case you haven't noticed, moron...

Hey Dave, take it easy here fella. Some of us ar proud to be morons.

Now idiot, yeah, I can get behind that.

48 I cannot speak as to the voters of Maryland, for I do not think I understand them sufficiently to make a comment. But as for everything else:

Mr. Steele needs to fully--and I do mean fully--understand that no only does he not have a smaller margin for error because of his race, he has a larger. And so does the Chief Executive.

I am no Republican, but I do strongly believe that if I were I would be much happier at the present time merely wondering if there was someone serving as RNC chair (and if so, who he was), rather than actually knowing for certain.

49 I find it difficult to be more inclusive of minorities as the days pass. <----Non PC right there. I know a lot of you are thinking the same thing Don't BS me.
 

50 So you all think Steele should lie then. Fine, don't ever bitch about politicians not being honest again, as you've shown you don't like honesty, which is exactly why most politicians lie. I believe Steele got elected in part because he is black, and that reason alone justifies his answer to having a smaller margin of error. Palin had a smaller margin of error too, in part because she is a woman. And when Republicans take back both houses this November, don't you people here give Steele any credit, because results matter only when you can give credit to whomever you want, not the people in charge in their various capacities.

51 I am a gay man who has always donated to the RNC because I believe in lower taxes and less federal regulation of small businesses. I am pro-life and pro-military and pro-2nd Amendment.  I supported the selection of Michael Steele to lead the RNC because he was well-spoken and played well on the news shows.  I am now done with donating to them (this after many years) and will instead donate my hard earned money to individual candidates.  Enough of the race-baiting.  I thought that I belonged to a party that stayed away from this nonsense.  Steele needs to go.

52 22 What if he shaved his mustache? Would that give him more street-cred?


I mean it worked for Alex Trebeck.

Posted by: Wizard of id at April 05, 2010 09:33 AM (eoYse)

I've got to ask you about the Penis Mightier, Trebeck

53 Well put, Stephen. I thought Steele would be a good choice, and this is an occasion where I totally wrong.

54 That you're still around and able to make this statement is likely related to your tint, Mr. Steele.  Enjoy the soft bigotry that raised you to and keeps you in that position.

55 49 So who has the authority to get rid of him?

Posted by: Tami at April 05, 2010 10:04 AM (VuLos) 

Vote with your money. I agree with Stephen, above. I'm only giving to individual candidates, RNC can go bust.

56

Vote with your money. I agree with Stephen, above. I'm only giving to individual candidates, RNC can go bust.

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 05, 2010 10:21 AM (LdYLm)

Yeah, that I do.  I trash everything they send me.  But how can he be replaced as head of RNC?  Or is this another one of those 'no one has standing' thingies?

57 I don't think it was bigotry that got Steele in that position. No, it didn't hurt that he was black, but then it shouldn't, should it? As Lt. Governor and next a GOP talking head he came across sensibly. He didn't play the race card over and over, and he sure as hell didn't play it against the GOP, and on behalf of a Democratic President... who, politically, has benefitted from being African American more than it's hurt him. Steele's positions make no sense objectively and they are damaging to the organization he's charged with leading. He should go. Replacement: Romney? Romney's dead for the presidency, like it or not, tarnished by Romney-care. But he could probably do this role very well indeed.

58 And rodneyb is one of the old Axelrodesque trolls, isn't he?

59 And when Republicans take back both houses this November, don't you people here give Steele any credit, because results matter only when you can give credit to whomever you want, not the people in charge in their various capacities.

Posted by: easyliving1 at April 05, 2010 10:16 AM (MjufE)

If the Republicans take back both houses it will be in spite of Steele.

60 If the Republicans take back the house and/or the senate, I'm going to credit the Democrats.

61 Tami's one of the smartest blokes here, from what I've seen.

62
Streetwise?  Rodeo Drive,  I'm sure.  This effete fuckstick has to go.

63
Maybe this would be a good money bomb for the RNC.

Call the RNC and tell them you'll send them $50 when they fire Steele.

64 70
Maybe this would be a good money bomb for the RNC.

Call the RNC and tell them you'll send them $50 when they fire Steele.

I like that.

65 62

Vote with your money. I agree with Stephen, above. I'm only giving to individual candidates, RNC can go bust.

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at April 05, 2010 10:21 AM (LdYLm)

Yeah, that I do.  I trash everything they send me.  But how can he be replaced as head of RNC?  Or is this another one of those 'no one has standing' thingies?

Posted by: Tami at April 05, 2010 10:23 AM (VuLos)

Do what every corporation does with a AA person that does not work out. Give him a titular position.

66 Steele was asked if he felt he has a smaller margin of error than others because he's black.

"The honest answer is yes. It just is," the former Maryland lieutenant governor said. "Barack Obama has a slimmer margin than others."

---

Fuck you too, buddy. 

67 Who the fuck hired that guy? He's a complete McCain.

68 74 Who the fuck hired that guy? He's a complete McCain. Powell.

Fixt.

69

Trial Balloon Notice

This would be a great stepping stone for Palin.

70 What Dave said!

I'm done with Steele. He needs to go.

71 Erg has more street smarts than Steele.

72

Well, I've been getting emails from him since I gave money to someone I won't name back in 2008.

I unsubscribed just now. Probably should have a long time ago, but maybe I'm not the only one to do it today and someone will pay attention.

73 Heh. True.

74 I don't like the guy. But Christ, some of the bloggers and commentors here need to remember that they/we all ASKED for this.  Everyone was bitching that they didn't know who Duncan was and they wanted someone who would be visible! They wanted someone different!  Well you got someone visible and different. And how awesome is it? It's not.

Everyone, myself, bloggers, need to learn the fucking role of the RNC and other committees. The role, very simply is to raise money, raise more money, and raise even more money. Side roles include providing candidates with data/information, and being the central hub for criticism.  Roles which are not part of the RNC: anything to do with policy and selecting candidates. 

I'm sure I'm missing some stuff. Please help me out.

75 I think the only plausible explanation at this point is that he's principally in it for personal aggrandizement. He doesn't make these kind of statement because he's unaware they harm the cause he's supposed to be promoting; few people could be that dense. Instead, he does it because he's far more interested in promoting himself.

76 Well, I just wrote to him, FWIW.  Amongst other things, I played the "woman card" and told him he need to toughen up. 

77

This is another indictment of the entire national Republican party establishment, that they gave this guy the job.

All of them need to go; the old, 20th-century politicians need to be replaced with people who know that the Democrats and the media are enemies of the republic and are ready to fight them.

78 Steele has been a disaster for Republicans. The sooner they bite the bullet and can him the better. He is not up to the job.

79 I like Ed Morrissey. Really I do. But if this doesn't make him get of his high horse, and man up to the "unseemly" process of dumping Steele and finding a replacement, I can't imagine any excess that would make Morrissey turn on him. It will be interesting to see who at HA posts on this. Come on, people. You have an incompetent employee, you fire him.

80 @George Orwell that's how it should be done. But if you've paid attention to any personel moves at the RNC, its fire everyone else first!

81 @86
the "unseemly" process of dumping Steele and finding a replacement
-----
Yeah, he needs to go, but I think at that level of employee you need to have the replacement lined up and give Steele some sort of graceful exit. 

82 #41 FreedomFighter at April 05, 2010 09:49   Excellent total comment.

I was thinking they should offer the job to Sarah Palin...but then she campaigned for McCain. Loyalty SHOULD NOT overcome common sense and principles.

Exactly.  Loyalty should be to the American people and Constitution first and last.   If the cost of Republicans staying home in Novembers of '06 and '08 is to mean anything it has to mean that the GOP has got to start running real Conservative Republicans for every seat.  McCain was a RINO spoiler in '08 and he should be gone.

The guy literally embodies everything that makes conservative voters stay home.

83 86 Come on, people. You have an incompetent employee, you fire him.

I dare you!

84 If they bring a knife, we bring a cardigan. At least that's what street-wise punks bring.

85 Here we go again, people thinking defining what a conservative should be for everyone!  I hate to be the asshat here, particularly because I really wish we did live in a fairy tale world where people weren't morons and understood common sense and principles. 

But the fact is, unless you want to be the permanent minority party and let democrats and liberals run roughshod over the constitution, you have to form this thing called a 'coalition'. Reagan did it in the 80's with fiscon's and soco's; and with the economy in shambles, that needs to happen again. 

You simply can't define what a conservative is and have it apply everywhere, at least in terms of getting people elected. Scott Brown is a perfect example... in MA the guy is a conservative. In Arkansas or Alabama, he'd be run out of town by local conservatives.  It's all relative. 

Also, Palin isn't going to become party chairman, though that would be awesome. She sees the job as beneath her, which is strange since her resume isn't exactly awesome. She, like most GOP politicians, is in it for themselves.  Recognize that, and you'll start to be less like a zealot.

True believer-ism is the single greatest problem with the internet.

86 We need a thread where we can debate what we need in a replacement and get a break-down of who the likely candidates are. 

87

"If the cost of Republicans staying home in Novembers of '06 and '08 is to mean anything it has to mean that the GOP has got to start running real Conservative Republicans for every seat."

I hope the jackboots of the Social Democrat Party bypass your neck while you dwell on your rightousness by staying home and letting them continue the destruction of our republic, because the GOP runs establishment candidates.  That will really get reform happening.

Do something!  Reform from the inside.  The Tea Party is the movement with which the GOP must align itself.  Give to them. Give to the NRCC. I hate McCain but I voted for him.  I didn't stay home with a serious case of self-rightousness.

The Social Democrats must be defeated and we can't be too choosy who are soldiers will be.  "We go to war with the army we have."

88 You can't fire an affirmative hire, suckahs!

You hired me because you wanted an African American RNC Chairman who could criticize Obama but couldn't be accused of being a racist bigot. Your mistake is glaring. The role of RNC Chairman is to raise money and get Republicans elected, not be the official-designated-race-card-invulnerable criticizer of Obama. Plus I'm incompetent and only interested in promoting myself.

Now you're stuck with me as RNC Chairman until you promote me to a better position or pay me off in some other way, otherwise you open yourselves up to the dreaded race card.

Gotcha!

89 What an ignorant asshole. He was far better as a Senatorial candidate from Maryland.

90

The Social Democrats must be defeated and we can't be too choosy who are soldiers will be.  "We go to war with the army we have."~Joebidenmytime

Maybe you weren't paying attention to the game play up until now but John McCain and people like him are considered Mavericks because they haven't been "at war" with the Social Democrats.  Quite the opposite.

I'm talking about the John McCain who voted for a ban on drilling in ANWR and was for open borders.  The John McCain who blamed Wall Street for the collapse of the housing bubble.

91 Count me among the "last straw" former Steele-sufferers.

92 Here we go again, people thinking defining what a conservative should be for everyone! Was it even your intention to speak about the subject at hand? This has nothing whatsoever to do with Steele's personal adherence to conservative political philosophy. It has solely to do with his repeatedly making public, disparaging comments about the party that he is supposed to be championing.

93 Top level RNC fundraiser calls it quits.

94 "Top level RNC fundraiser calls it quits." Posted by: Dave in Texas at April 05, 2010 12:37 PM Holy crap, buddy. It has begun.

95 The RNC is a racist group. Any leader that has been this incompetent would have been fired long ago. LONG AGO.

96 @ashowalt sorry about that, I was talking to 'speller' at post #89

97 @#64 Posted by: Christoph

If by rodneyb = troll you meant rogerB = troll, not quite.  Just new here.  Probably just my fourth post or so.

And I maintain that Steele is mostly (and still) in his position because he's black.  His incompetence likely wouldn't have been tolerated this long otherwise.  That's a form of bigotry no better than passing college students who don't know the material but can't be failed because it would make the school/demographic look bad.

98

Well 'arbitor' it doesn't help to elect Republicans who vote with the Democrats.  The welfare state advances unchecked.  If there was ever an opportunity to halt it's expansion and roll it back it is now, when Americans will be casting votes more in opposition to the Democrats than they will be casting votes for Republican candidates and the issues they represent.

This is a rare opportunity to field genuinely conservative candidates and not have to worry that they stand to far to the right to get elected.

99

"Maybe you weren't paying attention to the game play up until now but John McCain and people like him are considered Mavericks because they haven't been "at war" with the Social Democrats.  Quite the opposite."

Not only was I paying attention, I was nauseous when I punched my chad for McCain.  Like I said, I hated McCain, but comparing McCain and 0dinga after one year of the 0dinga regime should make the point.

100 The Arbitor= Sean Hannity sans sock LOL

101 FIRE STEELE! FIRE STEELE! FIRE STEELE! FIRE STEELE!  Fire Michael Steele yesterday!!!

Republicans aren't getting a dime from me until they take care of problem #1: the man in their top spot is a republican basher.  Or maybe I'm just as racist as you claim Rush Limbaugh is, eh, Steele?

102 "Posted by: rogerB at April 05, 2010 01:16 PM (EbDsj)" Thanks for clarifying.

103 In reality, if this self-obsessed doofus was a white guy, he would have been gone a lo-o-o-o-ong time ago. The only reason he still has a job is because he's black.

Fuck the RNC.

104 This is the kind of asshole who never does anything wrong and never takes responsbility for anything.  Too much of a threat to a fragile ego.

105 I would like to see this grassroots support he is providing. After contacting various GOP entities (RNC, RSC, NRCC, ste GOP) last week practically begging for a single comprehensive resource detailing the negative of Obamacare, I came up empty-handed. Is there no one providing strategy anywhere in the GOP? deep breath

106 OK, not empty-handed, just not an easily accessible single resource. Part of the problem is there are so many separate sources it is a huge research task that the vast majority of voters wouldn't even attempt. It needs to be made easy for them.

107

“That’s a fairly silly comment to make,” Gibbs told reporters. “I think Michael Steele’s problem isn’t the race card, it’s the credit card.”

The same can be said about Obama's budget!

108 Deflect and cover.  Where are the millions going Mr. integrity?  Race card is a lose/lose for steale.

109 Many great comments, and frankly I am sad I'm too drunk to respond to all of them cogently. But I've got a lead Ace should hop right up on, at least I think anyways. Nutjob that is, dare I say, enhanced by none other than perhaps the closest we have today of WFB's incarnate, the one and only Mr. Mark Fucking Steyn.

110 Any dumb sumbitch wanna slit his own throat (ferchrissakes of course that's rhetorical besides being a ripoff from Leo in the Coen's Miller's Crossing and Smokey and The Bandit) and argue that we need more Novaks than Buckleys or that Buckley nearly ruined "conservatsim" or WFB wasn't perfect so fuck him? I'm game. So what the fuck is Steyn doing endorsing this shit by endorsing the author while sucking on WFB's essence, as it were, via the flawed* NRO format? *Every moment of WFB's career captured on film should be indexed and available for free to anyone anywhere at NRO. Anything WFB wrote should be availabe for free digitally. This should be paid for by the federal government as an example of extreme irony, and good humor.

111 This is important. Mark Steyn supports a woman who wrote this about Bill Buckley: "The GOP does not need another William F. Buckley. I sometimes wonder how it survived the first one. That is, it doesn't need as its guiding light a man of inherited wealth who never held down a real job." Now that's too stupid to fact check, as I believe were his autobiography, Miles Gone By, bullshit, then perhaps there might be some evidence of that. None is provided by Kathy Shaidle in her attack on WFB. CIA. Army. Author (right outta college at that, God And Man At Yale, or GOMAY. Opinionist. Advisor to Presidents, Prime Ministors, et. al., TV Host (33 years), Father. "Frankly, Buckley often seemed, well, stoned to me (we alcoholics are notorious for counting how many drinks the other fellow's had...), and not just because he supported the decriminalization of pot, which is a cause only actual (boring) pot smokers embrace, to the point of turning it into what I call "the abortion of libertarians." All that to say: looks like I was correct about the stoned part. And stoners can't be trusted." Mark Steyn has made a pattern of linking this woman. This jealous, small woman.

112 now despite the bad html, can anyone appreciate what the "et. al." above could include? William F. Buckley. Et. Al.

113 'You have a way with words,  tronscience

114

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115 Michael, it's not about your race, as stupid isn't about race.

116 Has he been taking advice from the former mayor of Detroit ...Kilpatrick?