Cao To Steele: Come And Get Me -- Just Remember You Need My District

Talking Points Memo ^ | 11/8/09 | Versha Sharma

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Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA), the lone GOP vote for the House health reform bill that passed late last night, has responded to RNC Chairman Michael Steele's warnings about stepping outside of party lines. (WATCH Steele: "We'll come after you.")

Cao told CNN that Steele retains "the right to come after those members who do not conform to party lines, but I would hope that he would work with us in order to adjust to the needs of the district and to hold a seat that the Republican party would need." He represents the second congressional district of Louisiana, a solidly Democratic district that includes New Orleans. Cao said earlier today that he put the needs of his district over what was popular with his own party.

Cao's opponent was former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), who was under indictment on corruption charges at the time of the election, widely seen as the sole reason the Republican was able to triumph in this specific district. His unique victory was celebrated by Steele and other GOP leaders, a fact which the young lawmaker is not letting party leadership soon forget.

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Do not let them get away with backstabbing us. That is how they become Lindsey Graham and eventually, Arlen Specter.

To have a Republican represent William Jefferson’s (Democrat - Louisiana) district, and be willing to compromise to the point that the ‘big tent’ must include positions on issues like that, we compromise to the point that the GOP does not represent voters in places (like Virginia) where we really do need to win.

That is how rot-gut commies like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barak Obama take over our country.

Believe me. The RATS know it. If they get us to go wobbly on conservative values, we lose, they win. Do not let that happen.

The GOP wins elections when the GOP stands firm on solid conservative principles. Voting for Pelosi's communist health care was a betrayal of the worst order.

[JoSixChip]

RNC leadership = oxymoron

[indianrightwinger]

Steele is a loser. He has no clue what he is talking about.

He swings with the pendulum.

Takes on conservatives in the 1H of this year. Turns into a conservative after the Summer revolution.

Supports Dede on day, and turns on her the next.

I won’t feel better until he is replaced with a better chairman.

[dragonblustar]

Cao has more to fear from the people than Steele.

[Psalm 144]

Odious little tapeworm, isn’t he?

[Squantos]

He took a bribe of promise from Obama so aside from being stupid he sold out his country to a proven liar an cheat for something he will never get.

What a POS !

[cynwoody]

Cao is seriously deluded if he thinks his vote for Obamacare is going to save his seat.

He's a chump who needs to find a gentler line of work.

[SideoutFred]

You are absolutely correct.

[Mamzelle]

Write him off, Mike. No brainer.

[Yaelle]

No one needs to come and get you, Cao. You’re through.

[Lancey Howard]

That district will go right back to rat no matter what this scumbag Cao does. The rats can have it.
Forget him. He’s just another rat no matter what party label he claims to wear.

Why waste time on Cao and a district that is mostly bums, deadbeats, and parasites to begin with? It’s obviously a rat district at heart. The GOP needs to concentrate on exposing and defeating fake “conservative” Democrats who won in right-leaning districts of hard-working, taxpaying, traditional American families by lying. Those districts should be Republican every time. Go after THOSE districts.

[JoSixChip]

Maybe he will vote against it on the final bill, but ya he’s toast.

[PzLdr]

Well, well. A slimmed down DeeDee Scozzafava.

[max americana]

I’ve said the same thing: Steele is a RINO. Of course, the FR plants and trolls have labeled the posts as racists.

[freekitty]

He sure does.

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Let me defend Chairman Steele here. I know there’s been some frustration with him.

But he took over a party in shambles. We can go all day about how that came to be. Yet, posting here from Steele’s home county in Maryland, Steele has fantastic talents.

To put it in words of an analysis I heard from a Navy Captain almost twenty years ago, Steele is malleable. He is learning, and doing that right fast.

The problem here is not Steele, it is Cao. Let me illustrate with a story I heard years ago.

A German farmer kept his shepherd dogs, ferocious and loyal, as his finest allies in dealing with his flocks. They helped him in everything he needed to do everyday running the farm.

One day, the biggest and toughest of the shepherd dogs turned on him and bit him slightly on the hand. The farmer smacked the dog down with a stick, and the dog backed down with tail between legs.

But the farmer knew he was not done dealing with this betrayal. He grabbed the collar of the animal that had attacked him and dragged it in front of the other dogs.

He took out his revolver and shot the dog right in the back of the head. The animal fell limp and collapsed on the ground. The farmer left it there for a day.

Never again did any one of the German shepherd dogs bite the farmer.

This is how Steele must handle Cao’s betrayal.

[BP2]

> Cao has more to fear from the people than Steele.

Yep, and I bet they have a LOT more ammo now to get
more people on board with them!

http://teapartypatriots.org/Group/Greater_New_Orleans_Tea_Party

http://taxdayteaparty.com/teaparty/louisiana/

[politicket]

How many of the "angry" Republicans voted for President Bush's $750 BILLION DOLLAR stimulus plan?

They're two-faced.

[max americana]

Well then..how about the other RINO dogs like Snowe and Collins?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Cao the VC will switch parties,,,

Watch for it...

[Cymbaline]

Speaking strictly metaphorically, of course.

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Let them see what the farmer does. Steele, and we, are the farmer.

[XenaLee]

I would personally like to ask Cao how his father would approve of him caving into the commies like he did and claiming it was for his constituents. That makes no sense. He has no logic. He’s a leftie. It’s a dead giveaway.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Looter Guy could have beaten fricking Jefferson, for crying out loud. For Cao to crow about defeating him is akin to the Globetrotters bragging about a victory over the Generals.

Interesting that Cao can't articulate to his district that Obama's policies would keep them in continuous poverty & still without health insurance even if Obamacare passes. He voted for it because of a measly commitment from a known liar and fraud, the same fraud who promised transparency among other things.

Not only has he lost his support in the district and from grassroots conservatives, but the Dems are going to target him because they're going to be facing losses next year and will try and save/win as many seats as they can.

What a complete, worthless tool.

[4rcane]

i like to ask, we need his district for what

[voteNRA]

"He took out his revolver and shot the dog right in the back of the head."

Although a simple public censure followed with removal of financial support would satisfy me, I understand your frustration :)

[Gene Eric]

Steele has been a disappointment so many times, but unlike his predecessor, I think Steele could be a decent RNC leader. He needs to forgo a few of his social needs.

[XenaLee]

I don’t know. Shooting Cao in the head might appear a bit harsh. How about if Steele just smacks the crap out of him instead.

[OrangeHoof]

Cao took William Jefferson’s district in a surprise and he’s truly in a no-win situation. If he votes like a good conservative, his 60% slum district will vote him out. If he votes like a Democrat, his 60% Obama-loving racist slum district will still vote him out. He’d have never won election in the first place if it were not for Jefferson’s corruption.

So, I don’t understand Steele suddenly puffing his chest and acting like Cao needs to fall in line when there are so many other Republicans who need that sort of talking to and aren’t repping districts as leftward as Cao’s.

Wasn’t Steele pimping for Dede Scuzziwuzzi last week and Cao’s no worse than she was. Picking on him is silly because he’s dead congressman walking anyway, even if he were a perfect Republican.

[Just mythoughts]

Cao is seriously deluded if he thinks his vote for Obamacare is going to save his seat. He's a chump who needs to find a gentler line of work.

Think maybe that was what the BamaKennedy phone call was about, a job offer when he gets tossed out of office. Time will tell. There sure has to be a czar position waiting to be filled or maybe even an ambassador opening?

[SaraJohnson]

We don’t need his district and we don’t need him.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Cao is a symptom of a bigger problem.
Basically, Republicans need to stop running as liberals in liberal districts. Just run as conservatives and tell the liberals that liberal policies do not work and there are better alternatives.

If they lose, so be it - let the voters choose the Rat and continue on with their misery while other districts flourish. They'll get the hint sooner or later.

Cao doesn't understand that the reason why there's an uproar over this is because the vote was for Obamacare. This wasn't some dinky vote for more education spending or whatever. Obamacare affects EVERYONE and Cao's district is no more special than anyone else's.

[Cobra64]

Write him off, Mike. No brainer.

That's right. Mike Steele is a "no brainer." He's a worthless, spineless RNC chairman POS.

[Dapper 26]

If Cao studied to be a Jesuit, he is a liberal. He ran as a Republican because it was probably the only way he could survive the primary, if he was the only Republican to run.
I heard him on the House floor and he was only concerned federal funding of abortion. By his previous votes - with the Dimocraps - and his vote for Pelosi Care, he is a Democrat. Let’s see when the Senate sneaks abortion back into their bill.
What makes it even worse is I fought and bled for his country’s freedom all for him to come to America and vote to take away mine.

[hattend]

If he’s not going to vote the party line in the most important bill he has voted on then we don’t need the seat.

F him and the donkey he rode in on.

[martinidon]

bingo, this seat was/is going back to the dems no matter what. The only reason he won is because jefferson refused to step aside and it created a three way race. He was toast anyway in the next election.

[Clock King]

His district IS the problem. The people in it are weak and dependent. They need a lesson in reality.

[Cymbaline]

I’d be satisfied with just returning Cao to private life as soon as possible. (Along with every other RINO.)

[nathanbedford]

All politics in America is not local but racial

We FReepers are indignant and we do not know whom to be more angry at, Rep. Cao or Republican national Committee Chairman Michael Steele. Perhaps we should consider that both men have their jobs because of race.

Michael Steele was chosen to be the Republican national committee chairman in order to get a wedge into a black voting constituency that delivers 90% or better of its population for Democrats. Cao won his election by a scant 3% against a flagrantly corrupt black man in a largely black district which is extremely likely to revert to a black Democrat in the next election. His Election was a fluke, an outlier.

But before we take out our indignation on either man, let us consider the limitations of their options. Michael Steele as chairman of the national committee is obligated to support the nominated candidate (or should I say for New York's 23rd district the "selected" candidate). He cannot make unilateral decisions to throw maverick representatives like Cao under the bus. Cao knows that in his district to be thrown under the bus by the Republican Party enhances his chances for reelection.

The reality is in America we have a demographic slice of the pie amounting to about 12% of the population that is reflexively voting for one party and, so long as that party has an African-American as its titular head, there is no realistic expectation that African Americans will vote otherwise. It is this 10% or so election day cushion (90%-95% of 12%) which gives the Democrat party an edge.

If one looks into the culture of the African-American "community" (God how I hate that euphemism!) One sees many characteristics of a tribe or a cult in which conspiracy theories run rife, the scientific method is flatly rejected, authority is exalted over reason, intolerance and bigotry demand and attain conformity. Few indeed are the Thomas Sowells and the Shelby Steeles who can break free of these leaden chains. Although I have fought long and hard against the nomination of Michael Steele, fairness demands that we acknowledge that there are few indeed of African-Americans with the courage to stand where he does.

What a very great pity it is that the greatest nation on earth must lay virtually every political question on the template of race. It is an even greater pity when political correctness so often prevents us from facing reality.

For the record, my view is that Michael Steele should acquire the consensus needed to make an example out of of Rep. Cao for the good of party discipline. The seat is likely lost anyway. If held, it will be a canker unremittingly oozing pus. There is nothing to be gained within the African-American community by pandering to them and the blowback from the rest of the electorate cost real votes which we biannually exchange in the forlorn hope of denting the elusive 10%.

[UnwashedPeasant]

No more RINOs! A regular wolf is better than a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[Psalm 144]

With better hair.

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Alright.

If he does that I will change my mind about Steele.

I will be watching.

[ICE-FLYER]

My faith in Steele to go after this RINO is just as strong as it was when I knew he would support a good candidate in NY-23 District...oh...yeah, look how well that went.

[Carley]

No difference at all between Cao and Jefferson.

Neither have a shred of integrity or honor.

Neither care about their country.

By learning this now we have a chance for a good candidate to give Cao a primary he’ll regret.

[Mila]

"By learning this now we have a chance for a good candidate to give Cao a primary he’ll regret."

Primary or not, in the foreseeable future it's highly unlikely that any Republican will win that seat. There were many unique and one time only factors that came together to bring about Cao's election. A Republican win in this district was a fluke, pure and simple. Hopefully it won't take another 119 years for it to happen again.

[personalaccts]

Why do we need Cao? They have 280 Dem’s what’s 1 more?

[fortheDeclaration]

It won’t save his seat. He will be out next November, even with a massive swing to the GOP.

[Fresh Wind]

Looter Guy could have beaten fricking Jefferson

Hmmm. I always thought they were the same person.

[jmaroneps37]

THIS is why Steele and Sessions are soooooooo guilty over NY 23.
If they had done that one right they could throw this POS overboard without a penalty. Nevertheless they should crush this little worm by ignoring him, He only won in because of an odd situation (Democrat crook getting sent to jail very odd). He has zero chance of winning next year. His district is full of Black socialists who will elect a name from the phone book with a D behind it.

[Soul of the South]

At least Cao’s vote can be attributed to him representing the desires of his constituents. Lindsay Graham’s support of cap n trade is contrary to the point of view of his constituents.