Posted on 04/08/2010 6:38:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Steele is NOT a man of steel. What a RINO race-card using nincompoop.
Well met.
He is a mole.
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I think you are completely wrong about that. Steele is basically a decent man.
But it really saddens me to see Steele go this route, as I always thought he had a lot of promise. Elder makes a lot of excellent comments here.
... he says as he slaps down the race card. Hey, Michael, do you also have a greater than average margin for getting a pass simply because a potential critic doesn’t want to come off as racist? You are out of favor due to a failure to perform. It’s that simple; black, white, red, green, or purple ... failure is failure.
Heck, we cut blacks more slack than anyone else, both 0bummer and Steele. So, yes, they are in the same racial boat: we treat them with kid gloves.
Both are incompetent. Steele’s politics are somewhat less noxious.
I say a big AMEN to that, I heard Blackwell years ago speak at a convention, he was amazing. I am so tired of this “racist” stuff, and now Steele is using it.
I think Palin has been either captured by the RNC or she is playing both sides to the middle.
Either way I have my share of suspicions of her. I prefer Bachmann to Palin but not sure there either.
Of all people Boehner has impressed me of late but that’s likely momentary.
There is no Reagan out there.
I do not trust any Republican completely but Inhof ranks high.
As far as candidates that can remain principled, that can stay in tune and have vision, there are none.
But we need to put the fear into establishment pols right now, especially right now, with enormous grassroots and Tea Party unity. We should draw our leaders from that quarter.
The Republicans will not provide leadership and the democrats can be expected to do what they do, bow before their government union masters on the road to serfdom.
Anyways my excitement for Palin has waned. She made her choice to court the RINO element of the GOP and that has tarnished her credibility.
Since she quit her elected position everything he has done publicly has been directed toward enriching the Palin brand.
She, imo, understands that her act of quitting mid-term is a deal killer for future national ambitions. The fact that even here, on FR, her most ardent supporters can't completely sell her is indicative a a much larger problem in the real world.
So, she writes a book and goes on tour to sell it. Good. Then she gets a Fox News gig which, one would assume, is a paying job. Good. Next comes a TV travelogue series...more money. All good for her (except that her term is still not over but we won't pick that nit).
Every appearance from Letterman or Leno or Hannity or on the stump for some RINO (or not) maintains the profile. Palin is in the Palin business. As long as she stays on the stage and holds open the possibility of a run at the WH stock in the company stays strong.
Palin is doing it for money, yes but unfortunately it takes a lot of money to be President. So she is running for President or using that expectation to build a war chest so that she can have the option.
I would not mind her money-making if she would make better choices or somehow find a way to maintain her credibility.
I can understand her having to bow before McCain’s demands because he is one of the ultimate party insiders with great influence over the purse strings. Same with Steele, she has to bow before him in order to ensure she has access to political capital.
But that’s the road to RINOland. Bow before the money because without it you go nowhere.
But say the Tea Party has 10 million members capable of sending $10 for a Tea Pary endorsed candidate. That’s $100 million which is more than enough to fund a presidential campaign.
If the Tea Party could get a Reagan-type candidate with stature, credibility, vision and intelligence, then I would be more than happy with that and would gladly send not $10, not $100 but much more.
I do not trust GOP and I loath the democrat socialists.
I do so miss Larry Elder. He had the best talk show on radio. (maybe the second best after Rush).
I think it’s true that Steele is cut less slack— by the liberal media. Black or Jewish or even gay republicans do get extra scrutiny and a different level of criticism because they are regarded as traitors or sell outs or hypocrites somehow because they dare to feel more inclined to be conservative than socialist. That Steele would compare himself to Obama does suggest that he thinks race plays a role for the same reasons, which I think is incorrect. But I still like Michael Steele.
I don't think she wants to run at all.
I don't know what the field will look like yet, nobody does, but there should be one or two viable contenders.
Steele is too smart to be so consistently and repeatedly stupid.
I therefore conclude that he is a sabateur.
That makes two of us. Also tired of the articles saying he was chosen because he was black. The only two really good candidates were Steele and Blackwell and Steele as I have said before won because he was a former member of the RNC.
Can you imagine how RNC would be running with Blackwell? It would be a smooth machine. He is not a flashy person and would be the last person to use the race card. My State Chair was his campaign manager at the meeting where Steele was elected. Hands down it should have been Blackwell!
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