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This doesn't exactly exude self-confidence or leadership ability.
1 posted on 01/10/2010 5:44:31 PM PST by Baladas
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Apparently rushing to install a Black man as head of the GOP is not working out any better than voting in a Black man as President of the United States. This is what happens when qualifications are tossed out the window and Race is given too much weight when it should not be given any weight at all. I saw way too many people gushing over the fact that the GOP finally had a Black leader. All that gushing did was leave a mess to be cleaned up.


2 posted on 01/10/2010 5:50:47 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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One guy can't know everything. BTW, this belief in an all-wise, all-knowing Negro is getting the Democrats into deep trouble.

It's much better to admit that anyone can be wrong ~ particularly in a seat of the pants interview situation.

Time for some of you guys to write to Mike and let him know how you're going to win your district away from the evil Democrat now sitting in Congress. Keep him up to date.

3 posted on 01/10/2010 5:50:59 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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Michael is waiting to have his mind made up for him! It will depend on what the meaning of is is next week!


4 posted on 01/10/2010 5:54:40 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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I do think it is increasingly likely that the GOP will take control. But I don’t think it’s a problem that the Chairman is wishy-washing on this. Whether we win or not will depend on who shows up to vote.


5 posted on 01/10/2010 5:55:09 PM PST by Brilliant
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Separated at Birth?


6 posted on 01/10/2010 5:55:14 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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"But after telling the network that a new Republican majority in the House wouldn't happen 'this year'..."

How is that statement controversial? There's absolutely no chance whatsoever that a Republican majority in the House will happen in 2010--it's not possible. The Republican majority that will be elected in November won't be seated in the House until January of 2011.

7 posted on 01/10/2010 5:55:30 PM PST by Fabozz
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Steele is an absolute train wreck.


8 posted on 01/10/2010 5:55:44 PM PST by headstamp 2
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>>Oh, we will,” Steele told “Fox News Sunday,” adding, “We’re well on our way.” <<

Well, if we get rid of YOU, Steele...


11 posted on 01/10/2010 6:02:39 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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I want small-government conservatives to have control of Congress.

I don't care or even have any hope that the Republicans can fill that bill.

12 posted on 01/10/2010 6:03:35 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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Does he still charge the same fee for saying the opposite as the other day or does it cost extra to hear what we like?
13 posted on 01/10/2010 6:04:56 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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GOP chair changes tune, says party will take back Congress

Right after we take back his office.

15 posted on 01/10/2010 6:13:12 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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"We're well on our way."

No thanks to you Mike... you self-promoting jerk.

The RNC needs to move to meet the tea party movement, not the other way around.

The longer the relatively disorganized tea party crowd leads the discussion over where the country should be headed the better. As soon as the current establishment RNC takes the lead and controls the message, the more likely it can be massaged into the bland uninspiring message that allowed Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the House.

16 posted on 01/10/2010 6:13:16 PM PST by jz638
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There’s not much to Steele, after all he’s “light skinned” and speaks “with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.”


17 posted on 01/10/2010 6:14:04 PM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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Please donate to the Brown Campaign(R) Mass. No donation too small, I donated today. Monday is a planned Money Bomb day. Send shock waves through the RAT party. Link to contribute in my signature line. I donated today. Election on 1/19/2010. Donate to Free Republic too, while you are at it.


18 posted on 01/10/2010 6:16:27 PM PST by MtnClimber (Contribute to Scott Brown for US Senate in Mass. https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown)
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No, Mr. Steel, the party will not take back congress, the people of the United States will take back congress, and it might be time for the GOP to start campaigning towards the people who will do this.

That means hitting the ground running, ending these massive government payouts, stating up front that the first thing done will be to divest the American people of these ludicrous investments in private companies.

It means rolling back Congress’ budget, not the nation, but Congress’ budget to FY 2000 levels. It means cutting out tens of thousands of regulations that don’t work, that don’t help everyone, that lead to the poor investments that caused the housing bubble to burst, and the near collapse of our economy.

Step forward, say that Congress will direct the FDIC to insure ONLY %25,000 in bank accounts, and that investors will actually have to pay attention to their investments, or seek their own insurance.

Stop making us pay for other people’s goof ups. You want to expand the food stamp program? Sure, go ahead, don’t care about that. Because I’d rather billions go to feeding families than 3 billion to put a new car in their driveway, and their old car sent to a part out shop rather than being reliable transportation for a family that is just starting out.

Enough. Respect the people this nation is made up of, and stop treating them like little children, stop acting like our masters, and actually work for us for a change. Because if you don’t campaign for my vote, it’s going to whomever does.


19 posted on 01/10/2010 6:17:13 PM PST by kingu (Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
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STEELE SHOULD HENCEFORTH BE KNOWN AS ‘TINSEL’.

WHY?

BECAUSE HIS FUNCTION IS MERELY ORNAMENTAL,

HE IS A PLASTIC IMITATION OF SOMETHING REAL,

AND HE SHIFTS POSITION WITH THE FAINTEST BREEZE.


20 posted on 01/10/2010 6:21:53 PM PST by Psalm 144 (What did you think NEW WORLD ORDER meant? The Constitution? States' rights? Individual liberty?)
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Which way is the wind blowing today, Michael?

You wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of the wind.

21 posted on 01/10/2010 6:27:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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Maybe it’s time for him to go.

I’ll tell any RNC operative that calls me the same story: Not one penny until I see adherence to conservative principles. Who needs the RNC, I want solid conservatives who believe in limited government, individual liberty, strong national defense, and tax cuts. If the RNC can do that, fine, if not, that’s fine too.


23 posted on 01/10/2010 6:34:28 PM PST by bigbob
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If the GOP is to win the Congress and/or the Presidency, it must have leaders who, as I posted on another thread today, have immersed themselves in the ideas and principles of America's Founders, as Reagan had, to the point that those principles come naturally in speech and action.

Such leaders would be as revolutionary today as were the Founders in 1776, because Americans are faced with the same tyranny and oppression the colonists endured at the hand of a powerful tyrannical government and ruler.

For the first time in America's history, the oppressive hand has become so visible, so tyrannical, so apparently out of touch with the people, that citizens may, once again, be able to exercise the power left to them by their Constitution.

But, they'd better hear a clear trumpet call from a leader who is genuine, devoted to principle, and an authentic patriot for the cause of liberty! Else, this moment may never return.

GOP, are you listening?

Visit this site to obtain a volume whose title essay contains these words from Justice Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," as follows:

Joseph Story (1779–1845)

"If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the union, then they will have accomplished all that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them."

JOSEPH STORY, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," 2d ed., vol. 2, chapter 45, p. 617 (1851). This passage was not in the first edition, but in all later editions.

Does not his last sentence seem familiar in 2010?

24 posted on 01/10/2010 6:59:23 PM PST by loveliberty2
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Note to Steele: “You’re fired, now get out!”


26 posted on 01/10/2010 7:13:50 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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