Posted on 03/01/2009 6:10:49 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele talking with CNN's D.L. Hughley last night, and calling comments made by Rush Limbaugh during his speech to CPAC "incendiary and ugly." Steele said Limbaugh is not the de facto leader of the Republican Party, and that he is an "entertainter."
This is exactly the point Rush Limbaugh was trying to make in his speech. Republicans need to stop worrying about what the D.L. Hughley's think! They will never like conservatives or Republicans, because they are liberals! Steele should not have disavowed, in effect, what Rush said. He should have hammered home the core principles set forth by Limbaugh in his speech. . . . . (Watch Video)
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sigh
Just when I think returning to the GOP might be a good idea, I hear crap like this.
Another RINO running the GOP? Shocking. Everybody knows why he was picked and it isn’t because of his ideological conservatism.
He should have just left it at “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer”. No other comment was necessary.
Or how about defending the first amendment, while he’s at it.
Personally I was jazzed by everything Rush said.
I've never been inspired by Michael Steele's comments on Fox. Now I see why. He's one of "them".
They scored a hit this time. Bad on Steele. Though he is generally a quick thinker, he needs to take some lessons from Ann Coulter to attack the framework of the question, then give the answer - and not the one the MSM wants..
buh bye credibility of Michael Steele-
what little you had with me
knowing what a political campaign loser you were in Maryland with the very folks and factions you claim to be leading the RNC to attract to the GOP
Pray for this man to be courageous! We don’t need any more wimps.
NOR do we need any armchair-patriot GOP circular firing squads.
Perhaps Mr. Steele should be reminded that he can be replaced.
This is the guy that many around here want on the next ticket?
Gee Michael, maybe your BROTHERS will share a spliff w/you later. How pathetic to cave so they can say your bright. He thinks your a wimp and he’s right.
You are the head of the RNC and you don’t want him to fail?
Pray for America
Perhaps we should take up a collection and buy Steele a CLUE!
Where are all those FRiends that where so excited that they named Steele to the job?
I assume you are urging us to pray for Rush Limbaugh? He is the courageous one. I have no objections to a circular firing squad if RINO’s are in the middle
“Incendiary and Ugly”
Sounds like he’s standing up for his “good friends” on the Democrat side.
IMHO
I think Steele might be a Dem plant to destroy the GOP from the inside.
HEY STEELE
Country and free marktets are going to hell in a handbasket WHEN IS THE TIME TO BE INCENDIARY? When its %*$ Gulags for Conservatives?
Thats it I am leaving the party.
I’m not giving the RNC another penny till they cleanse the party of these imposters . Steele is just as bad as Sen.Spinchter ( PA) for making that comment . I really think skin color was the main reason they choose Steele to head the Pubbie Party .
He's another RINO loser POS!
Steele’s chairmanship of the DNC is now officially DOA.
How’s that fund raising going Mr. Steele?
Can’t get over the race thing Mikey?
Is he nuts? Does he not want contributions? You insult or stand AGAINST Rush....you are spitting on your base. Looks like I may have to change my affiliation to INDEPENDENT (until CONSERVATIVE) is allowed. I didn’t leave the Republican party...they left me.
If the Republican didn’t behave like wimps and “sheeple” there wouldn’t be a circular firing squad . The target would be straight forward and that is the Democratic Socialist Party .
Pray for Rush’s continued courage.
And a boost for Steele’s...
The Republican Party whores like Steele do not want lines. Instead they want to transcend across ideological plains with the hyper-collectivist who constantly play them like a Stradivarius.
Michael Steele needs to live up to his last name. Don’t give ground. He started well, but he only needed to continue to hold up a mirror to Hughley and watch him squirm.
Another RINO running the RNC....hopefully, there will be a more appropriate GOP of the Republic available to the faithful. The RNC has the same credibility as the dinosaur media it so faithfully serves!
I don’t care what D.L. Hughley thinks about politics. Hughley is a comedian. Can’t they find a serious black man, like Thomas Sowell, to put on the network? Or do they think all black men should be comics, or buffoons like Sharpton?
This is no real surprise to me.
I’ve never been that impressed by anything I have ever
heard from Steele.
But now he’s ascended, Peter Principle-like, to the level
of his incompetence, and has some kind of “official” status. He’s a fool if he thinks he can minimize Rush Limbaugh’s influence in any way: Limbaugh has the most fiercely loyal followers of ANYONE in the MEDIA, and I DO mean ANYONE. Steele, unfortunately, is looking precisely like an inverted Uncle Tom figure, of a kind not only not fit to speak for the ‘new’ Conservative identity of the revived Republican Party, but not even belong in that Party.
Just another across-the-aisle figurehead figure, like you-know-who, whose whole mission is to absorb himself, and all of us, in what is NOW shaping up as the most dangerous and demagogic rush toward a Great Depression, out of which SOCIALISM is supposed to emerge , phoenix-like, out of the ashes. Got news for everyone.....NOTHING is going to emerge out of the ashes, except tyranny. The Enemy we always knew was within, is right there parading itself in front of our faces every day, and we’d better not be afraid to identify it.
Rush certainly not the leader. Operation Chaos remember that. I like the substitutes a lot better than Rush frequently.
“I hadn’t formed an opinion about him until now.”
Dittos to that. Was on the fence, now I’m off. How do we fire him? How do we create a viable third party?
It’s like Rush said, we’re always acting like we’re the minority, letting the dems set the agenda while all we do is react to their bullying. We’ll, they set the agenda with a black president, and the pathetic GOP had to find their own black person to put in the store window. Enough of that crap. We’re always responding to them; we need to start taking the lead and putting them on the defensive for a change.
Well...looks like another loss in 2010....someone should buy this knucklehead a clue.
What do Jindals’ rebuttal, Palin’s Couric interview and Steele’s ‘Rush’ comments all have in commom?
Everyone has a bad day. Steele, quite frankly, should have been positive and said Rush explained conservative principles very well and left it at that.
Mr Steele. How’s that math working out for you?
Approximate numbers
100 Million voters
47 million votes for Palin/McCain
20 million Rush listeners
What did Rush say that was “incendiary and ugly”? I guess the truth is “incendiary and ugly.”
I think he meant that Rush is an entertainer and was doing what Rush does...better than anybody else.
Steele wouldn't be so stupid as to criticize Rush Limbaugh on CNN!!!
Screw Steele...Rush should just start a conservative Party. If they can not handle truth who needs em? Rush said what I think.
Yes he can be replaced. Time for a petition drive?
What we need is NO MORE RINOs.......
Exactly, I didn't have an opinion either way about Mr. Steele till now.....hmmmm....Rush or Steele? Rush or Steele? I'll take Rush!
so Steele chooses to remove his mask on the occasion of the best public articulation since omomma took office of our American Spirit and exceptionalism.
Fine.
If the GOP follows suit, So Be It.
Rush was wonderful and positive and very encouraging last night; I didn’t see a single “incendiary” thing in his talk, unless Steele has bought into the idea that it’s verboten to talk about The One in anything less than adulatory tones.
I didn’t know much about Steele and I wasn’t sure what to think about him, but I think he’s made it pretty clear now where he stands.
I watched Rush’s speech yesterday, and he left tons of ammo for the opposition. I can easily see how he made people on our side of the isle nervous. The speech was ‘disjointed’ mishmash at best. If you saw that speech and did not understand Rush, I can easily see how people may feel.
That isn't necessary, 'cuz the Dim's aren't needed...the GOP has been eating away @ itself for years.
Are the Republican leaders just this stupid? Really, here we have a man, Rush Limbaugh, who brings down the house, with the audience on their feet, comment after comment. Twenty-two million people can not wait until noon every day to hear his comments. What does the Republican party do? They make Limbaugh an enemy. It is beyond belief.
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