Is this a joke?
Posted on 11/09/2009 12:53:22 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Steele: White Republicans are scared of me By Jordan Fabian - 11/09/09 03:12 PM ET
Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele, who is known for making controversial statements, on Sunday said that white Republicans are afraid of him.
Steele also took aim at some in his own party last week as well, saying that he would "come after" centrist Republicans who support healthcare reform.
The Republican chairman appeared on NewsOne's "Washington Watch" this weekend, a new Sunday polititcal talk show aimed at a black audience. The host, Roland Martin, asked Steele how could Republicans could reach out to black voters. Steele responded by talking about issues such as education, small business, jobs and the econoy, The rest is in a partial transcript:
MARTIN: But your candidates got to talk to them. One of the criticisms I've always had is Republicans -- white Republicans -- have been scared of black folks.
STEELE: You're absolutely right. I mean I've been in the room and they've been scared of me. I'm like, "I'm on your side" and so I can imagine going out there and talking to someone like you, you know, [say] "I'll listen." And they're like "Well." Let me tell you. You saw in Christie and you saw in McDonnell a door open because they went in and engaged. McDonnell was very deliberate about spending...
MARTIN: Right.
STEELE: I mean, Sheila Johnson was on his team. I mean, that was a big deal. That's because he engaged her and she helped navigate him through that relationship.
Steele is the first African-American to serve as RNC chairman and has at times made controversial remarks regarding race.
Shortly after he was elected chairman in February, Steele said that the Republican Party needed to conduct an "off the hook" public relations campaign to attract blacks and Hispanics in "urban-suburban hip-hop settings." He also said that he would attract minority voters with fried chicken and potato salad.
The “fried chicken and potato salad” may have given it away.
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We are only afraid because he is a RINO and liable to sell us out without notice.
Time for Steele to take a hike!!!
that comment is every bit as unhinged as the stuff Cythia McKinney, Al Sharpton and RevWright are always saying.
Move over, Howard Dean. You have competition for the title of Least Mentally Stable Party Chairman...
Well, not so much because you’re black, as because sometimes you talk like you’re Joe Biden’s brother from a darker mother. Like now.
I'm not buying it, Mike, the race card isn't working for Bhussein0 any more, and it's not working for you.
Because the rich Liberal White guys who currently run the GOP needed a token minority to put up opposed to the token minority the Rich Liberal White Guys in the Democrat Party put in the White House.
Ah I see. I have been suckered. It is just a typical Junk Media formatted " you should hate the GOP" propaganda job by the Democrat Party directed junk media.
I love it when 65+ females talk about RINO POS’s. More power to ya, Lady!
Ah I see. I have been suckered. It is just a typical Junk Media formatted " you should hate the GOP" propaganda job by the Democrat Party directed junk media. Thought Freepers were too smart to fall for these con jobs.
http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/11/04/23rd-lost-sessions-and-steele%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9coops-we-meant-hoffman%e2%80%9d-incompetence-lost-gop-seat-held-160-years/
This guy is a disgrace
who needs to be removed if he won’t resign.
“Good grief who voted for this dipshit....
Your duly appointed and elected local and state GOP representatives. And Mr. Steele garnered the most votes.”
The defense rest.... we are doomed
Exactly. The race was injected into this by Steele.
Another Colin Powell type fifth-columnist in the ranks of the GOP. This is what happens when you place “diversity” before competence and belief. I had the feeling, from the moment I first heard him speak, that this guy would sniping at his own people from behind the lines. The GOP chose to play the race game by choosing a man who wasn’t fit for the job and are now reaping the predictable whirlwind for their stupidity.
Poor Steele, he puts so much efford into the black demographic that will never vote GOP. So, sad.
As far as his statement re: white Republicans....lol, I think conservative Republicans are afraid of RINOs like Steele.
What the hell is wrong with this Steele guy?
He should STFU most of the time, he’d be better off.
One week he says something sane, next week it’s something like “white republicans are afraid of him.”
???
Where is that coming from?
Race baiting is the dems stock and trade not ours. I don’t care if he’s plaid. He just needs to be conservative. He ain’t. No bucks from my household for him.
Steele! No soup for you!
Are you a member of the Republican Party?
Please give Sgt. Dobbs my heartfelt thanks for serving in the US Army!
Really Indy, tell him how we admire and respect him and are so grateful to him. God Bless him, he’s one of the very best our country has! God Bless all our troops where ever they may be.
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