Posted on 02/02/2009 9:17:17 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox's Chris Wallace that it was "important" to reach out to those voters.
WALLACE: You are one of the co-founders of something called the Republican Leadership Council which supports candidates who favor abortion and gay rights.
STEELE: Yes.
(watch video)
WALLACE: Does the GOP needs to do a better job of reaching out to people who hold those views?
STEELE: I think -- I think that's an important opportunity for us, absolutely. Within our party we do have those who have that view as well as outside and my partnership with Christy Todd Whittman was an effort to build a bridge between moderates and conservatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at videocafe.crooksandliars.com ...
The GOP can now forget about my vote.
Nothing wrong with reaching out and trying to find common ground on other issues.
Steele: GOP Should Reach Out To Gay, Pro-Choice Voters
and slap them.
I agree.
If you live in Maryland, you know that Steele is no conservative. He is in fact a moderate with leftward leanings.
The information is out there.
If you are surprised that the RNC hired a RINO, then you have not been paying attention.
Unless he is talking about hating the sin and loving the sinner.
BREAKING! Pro-life, devout Catholic named new RNC chair!
Opinion: Michael Steele, Black, Pro-Life Catholic Takes the Helm of the G.O.P.
Catholic Michael Steele (former seminarian) takes over leadership of RNC
Rut ruo....
Flame on.
Uh oh. Four more years of Obama.
there are VERY FEW pro-choice voters
stupid, stupid.
They have learned no lessons.
I actually supported him for RNC Chair. Warning flags came up when he didn’t offer a staunch defense of Rush Limbaugh. Now this. Crapola.
He’s stepping in the sewer now. Thanks for the article... I did not know he was crossing the line.
LLS
he said — **I think that’s an important opportunity for us**
He didn’t say he would do it.
Aren’t you jumping to conclusions?
As long as it’s done with the understanding that they don’t drive the party direction I’m fine with it. The GOP should stand for what it stands for and if pro choice and pro gay want to vote for conservative principles, so be it.
The GOP has too many RINOs already.
The GOP does not want or need gay or pro-choice voters.
The GOP needs to get back to basic conservatism and give RINOs the boot.
however, I do enjoy reading all the posts from the ‘tolerant’ folks.
agreed....
he more they push wouldbe voters away the more votes will end up in the hands of the rats....reaching out to these voters versus adopting their agenda; whether it be for political or genuine purposes, are night and day....
there are plenty of log cabin Republicans who, in many ways, are more conservative and more ardent to conservative policies than the dopes who’ve had an “-R” next to their name the past six years....
Well, he has never appeared very conservtaive anytime he has been the talking head on TV.
GOP is a dead party. They haven’t learned a damn thing.
LLS
*sigh* Will they never learn?
Its important to destroy relationships with all voters ...that way Republicans can continue to lose
Michael Steele, co-founder of the centrist Republican Leadership Council to his conservative critics: “Wake Up People”: http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/496935.aspx
Reach out and explain how their agenda is wrong.
Steele sees no problem with Roe v Wade. So his outreach to pro-abortion types is understandable.
His out reach to homos is a new revelation.
Is this the leader the GOP needs?
STEELE: Yes.
The nomination of McCain and the election of Steele is absolute concrete proof that Republican Party train has left the conservative station.
From Reagan to this in 20 short years I would have thought impossible...
This just proves something I’ve believed for a long time, conservatives are held hostage.
They exhibit all the signs of Stockholm Syndrome.
Any slight hope, and we pounce on it.
Too many know little to nothing about the candidates, and why? We have jobs. We have credit card bills, we have mortgages.
I was jumped a couple of weeks back here at FR for expressing concerns about Steele’s previous statements about the ever loaded proposition of “reaching out”.
“Reaching out” is usually nothing but a nice euphemism for pandering to groups, which was the undoing of the strong GOP that existed up through the 2004 election, before Bush and Rove kicked their “reaching out” into high gear.
I see further losses on the horizon if Steele sets out on a serious program of “reaching out” to every interest group he can find.
What’s wrong with reaching out to gays and prochoicers?
If they want to come on in and vote along with us, it’s the only way we’re ever going to expand our numbers—not by becoming liberals, but saying “You’re welcome to come on in and join us.”
If we’re confident that our ideas are right and when one thinks about them they’re the obvious smart choice, we shouldn’t be afraid of gays and abortionists—whoops, prochoicers—coming along because of our ideas about defense (against Islamofascists, who hate gays and prochoicers), taxes (show them that keeping taxes low empowers the individual), small government, etc.
As long as WE don’t change to attract them, what is the problem?
And if we don’t start adding to our numbers, how are we going to change the current situation? Where are “new” voters going to come from if not from outside the party?
I don’t know about you guys,but I am fed up to HERE with “reaching out”. The only “reaching out” I want to see from so-called conservatives is “reaching out” to embrace Reagan conservatism.
From your link to the 10 things.....
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2. He grew up in a family of Democrats.
I guess he has returned to his roots.
LLS
I am learning a lot more about him...yikes
So, point out some specific common ground you think will be found between Republicans and pro-choice voters, and pro-gay rights voters.
Tell us how they can be won over to vote Republican.
Here’s an idea:
The only way to maintain a conservative site is to start banning Michael Steele supporters.
Maybe low taxes, a smaller Government???
Now we know why they call him a moderate. Will we hear Steele say that the GOP needs to reach out to the social conservatives it has pushed away? If not, there is no way Republicans will be relevant.
Maybe he’s hoping they respond with a “reach around”.
“What’s wrong with reaching out to gays and prochoicers?”
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Are you outta your FReeping mind??
just asking.
Why not ask: What’s wrong with reaching out to Ahmadinajad and Chavez?
As Obama is doing.
He's the savior of the party!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Yes....and what a slap to Christian Conservatives, who are the strongest voting bloc in the GOP...the GOP did not learn
Or said in another way, "the GOP should surrender their core values and become just like the Democrat party". Apparerently Steele feels that if you can't beat 'em, then join 'em. And this man is the head of the GOP Party? I'm saying goodby to the GOP, it has truly become spineless. From now on my vote goes to the best qualified for the job, who also holds the most conservative principles in his heart. The Repbuplican Party has walked away from conservatives and Christians, let them walk, and keep walking until they fall into the valley of political irrelivence.
Were the strongest voting bloc. I am withdrawing my registration as a Republican. I don’t care what they do now. Let them implode.
I'm a re-constructed Southern democratshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
who started voting GOP with Reagan.I left the Republican Party when
they nominated Mcshame.I voted for Palin.
If this the direction of the GOP now,
it is toast !Steele is not much of a follower of the Christ.
Away from moral issues and more toward economic/freedom issues. maybe we’ll finally win an election. Its not always about abortion guys.
I wish they would all stop “reaching out”, aka pandering.
Just be very clear on what you stand for, what you’re against, don’t waiver, and let the votes fall where they may.
Panderers get no respect....especially not from the panderee.
Oops, they did it again.
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