Posted on 07/14/2009 10:39:25 AM PDT by bestintxas
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the GOP and the NAACP have missed opportunities to engage with each other.
Steele addressed the NAACP convention on Tuesday. The organization is celebrating its 100th anniversary this week in New York City.
Steele is the first African-American head of the RNC. He says he's committed to building a relationship between the two groups.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak to the convention on Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Steele's thick head doesn't see that.
All he sees is a group that votes 95% for the Dems and we wants a piece of that, regardless of whether it prostitutes cosnervative principles.
He needs removal as chairman. NOW
Neither party has anything in common.
Bush was right to refuse to appear before the NAACP, as it was a complete setup.
The longer Steele remains as chairman....2010 and 2012 look very bleak.
The GOPs mass flirtation with political correctness has been a failure....dump Steele now
Why Doesn't Mr. Steele just ask McCain how well that brilliant concept and strategy worked out for McCain with his “Hispanic outreach” director and leader of La Raza, Mr. Hernandez?
It isn't president McCain, now is it, Mr. Steele?
Christ, the GOP could write a book on how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory these days...
http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2009/07/14/senate-obsolete/
Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete?
by Robert Nelson on July 14, 2009
in Economic Policy, Federalism, Public Finance, Social Policy, Tax and Budget
Syndicated columnist Neal Pierce has been writing about state and local affairs since at lease the 1970s. In a recent column, he asks, “Are State Governments Obsolete?” It might have been more appropriate to ask whether state governments actually exist — at least in the traditional constitutional sense. Blessed by the Supreme Court and other judicial rulings, state governments have become administrative appendages of the federal government.
In one area after another in the twentieth century — matters of transportation, public health, land use control, education, wildlife management, etc. — the federal government assumed powers that had traditionally been reserved to the states. States might still have an administrative role, but they are now working under a very tight federal leash.
“He needs removal as chairman. NOW “
I agree with your statement that Steele should go, but in this particular case, I think it was not a particularly bad move to throw bone to the NCAAP. It doesn’t cost the GOP anything and blunts the claim by leading blacks that the GOP never, ever reaches out to them.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one.
Why the HELL is anyone in the Stupid Party trying to court the NAALCP? Idiots!
Wake up, Steele!
Let’s face it. The only reason why Steele was invited was to hear the GOP to plead that it “needs” the NAACP. Our poster boy being black made it more compelling.
The NAACP has outlived its usefullness, the same way Unions have outlived theirs when the notorious working conditions of early in this century became obsolete.
The NAACP is an extortion ring. They pick and choose who they wish to target and claim “racism” until money changes hands.
There is no need for a race-based group existing in America.
Democrats don’t care about Blacks (Afro-Americans, African-Americans, Negroes, whatever in the hell they call themselves now).
Democrats are all ga-ga over Hispanics now.
They will throw the blacks under the bus to placate the Hispanics.
Are the blacks smart enough to see what’s coming to them?
There are, I am sure, people in that organization who are not Kool-Aid drinkers.
Breaking bread with those who are not of our persuasion is not endorsing them--this isn't Hussein sitting down with Holocaust deniers or Hamas.
I hope he let them know their dependence on Democrats is hurting them.
Some do see this, but they will still stand by their knee jerk reactions.
On a (barely) related tangent, has Steele made any statement regarding the Honduran situation?
Steele: I'll Woo Blacks To GOP With "Fried Chicken And Potato Salad"
What a freaking stupid statement to make! He has got to go!
I don't listen to Hip-Hop stations, so I can't say...
We don't have to change anything about our issues, just ask those voters to consider them. If they decide against us, so be it, a lot of white voters do too, but it's silly not to bring our message to them.
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