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Steele defends Snowe: 'She works in Maine' (stupid RINO alert)
The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2009-11-04 | Eric Zimmermann

Posted on 11/04/2009 9:32:53 AM PST by rabscuttle385

A day after Tim Pawlenty took a few shots at Olympia Snowe, RNC Chairman Michael Steele came to her defense.

Asked on Morning Joe whether there was room for the Maine centrist in the GOP, Steele responded "absolutely."

Welcome! Welcome! Because--you know why that's important? Because every footprint of this party is different from region to region, from county to county. I can't win in the northeast with someone who'd be a better candidate suited in the south....So the reality of it is I'm looking to find my candidates where they are. And I want to lift them up because they represent those districts. So like New England, Olympia Snowe works there for her. She may not translate in South Carolina. She works in Maine.

Yesterday, Pawlenty warned Snowe that she was risking her spot in the GOP by possibly supporting healthcare reform. He also refused to say whether he was glad Snowe was a Republican.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: bigtent; fail; rinoparty; rinos; rnc; snowe; steele
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1 posted on 11/04/2009 9:32:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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Steele and Snowe need the heave-ho.
2 posted on 11/04/2009 9:34:00 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: rabscuttle385

A Centrist would be an improvement on Snowe. There might be a little truth in this. Snowe is too far left to be called Centrist.


3 posted on 11/04/2009 9:35:08 AM PST by Ingtar (Asses far Left of me; Rinos to the Left; FReepin' on the Right with you.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Steele going bi-polar again.


4 posted on 11/04/2009 9:35:24 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: rabscuttle385

You can not defend her taking the position she did when she voted for. Her excuses were lame and anyone that would stick up for her is just as lame. We need conservatives with a backbone. Not Rinos looking for a seat.


5 posted on 11/04/2009 9:35:33 AM PST by MadAnthony1776 (A liberals vision of paradise is God's definition of hell!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385
How much longer do we have too tolerate this Lefty Fool?
6 posted on 11/04/2009 9:35:38 AM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: rabscuttle385

I see the media are trying to create a little dust up to cause some mischief in the Republican party which they hope will take eyes off the disaster that is Ozero’s administration.


7 posted on 11/04/2009 9:36:18 AM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: rabscuttle385

Does ideology mean absolutely nothing to him?

What good does it do to have an R by your name if you vote 100% dem all of the time?


8 posted on 11/04/2009 9:36:25 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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9 posted on 11/04/2009 9:37:46 AM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385

MAINE ?????????? Dummy what the hell does that have too do with Cap and Trade that the Pinko Skank voted for???


10 posted on 11/04/2009 9:38:00 AM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: rabscuttle385

Before any clowns start on the usual non-sense rantings ... SNOWE is NOT a moderate.

SNOWE gives moderates a bad name.


11 posted on 11/04/2009 9:38:46 AM PST by 08bil98z24 (The WOD is unconstitutional ------>>> NObama)
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Mikey can't lead from behind. He needs to get off the mark and drop RINOs fast, and embrace the fact that the populace is (and has always been) right of center, identifying with conservatism more than moderate-ism or liberalism.

Mikey has a flashing idiot light on his dashboard warning him that his career as RNC chair is nearing failure. Will he heed it?

Conservatism needs to remain in the big tent of the Republican Party, but the tent should not have much space reserved for RINOs - and campaign donation ($upport) needs to be diminished to those not toeing the line for minimal government, minimal taxes, strong national security, constitutional fundamentalism, job creation, and protection of personal liberties.

NO THIRD PARTY! Let's fix the one we have...plus I kinda like the elephant, but the elephant's famous memory has forgotten how to win, Reagan-style.

12 posted on 11/04/2009 9:39:11 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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Steele is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Give him credit for not being a tyrant. He is browsing the buffet.....he is not yet the chef.

His mandate is not to destroy the GOP, but to build on it. Glad it’s his job and not mine.


13 posted on 11/04/2009 9:39:23 AM PST by sodpoodle (Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385

I keep hoping that the Republican Party will become entirely dominated by liberals...look for funding with the KOS Kiddies and maybe join FR with DU and do some fund raising...and...and then...WTF ARE WE DOING WITH A LAMEBRAIN LIKE THIS IN CHARGE????


14 posted on 11/04/2009 9:40:32 AM PST by jessduntno (TOTUS fails and POtuS becomes a phuttering stuck.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Steele is right. I don’t like Snowe’s views most of the time, but she has been elected multiple times by the Republicans in hir state. Who’s to say they can’t do that?


15 posted on 11/04/2009 9:40:34 AM PST by HoustonTech
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To: rabscuttle385

I am sooo sick of Michael Steel. He didn’t learn anything by watching the NY23. Snowe is a dem any way you slice it. She ain’t no GOP or conservative. Wish he would just go away


16 posted on 11/04/2009 9:40:40 AM PST by the long march
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To: rabscuttle385

These RINOS still think it’s a popularity contest. Their awakening will be rude for them and sweet for us, when they all get the boot!


17 posted on 11/04/2009 9:41:52 AM PST by Rickcbw
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To: Bahbah

How about the disaster in the RNC and the party in general?


18 posted on 11/04/2009 9:42:29 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: rabscuttle385
Horse feathers! Every week Michael Steele sends me a fund raising letter. It is obvious he is moderate himself. MO

Thomas Sowell, is smart and knowledgeable, as is Alan Keyes. How is it we get Michael Steele?

Reverend Jesse Peterson knows the complicity of picking a moderate on purpose ... simply to create a weak Republican party.. He can say what most of us can not say.

The Republicans have joined the liberals on many issues for self aggrandizement, and corruption. MO

They have been in Washington too long. MO! God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.

19 posted on 11/04/2009 9:42:48 AM PST by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

And these stupid RINO bastards expect me to shower them with my hard-earned mony. They can stuff it.


20 posted on 11/04/2009 9:43:01 AM PST by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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