Posted on 11/11/2008 2:05:16 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
> Newt Gingrich gives me the creeps.
Me too. He always seemed a Clintonesque figure to me, very sleazy. I was not at all surprised to learn how he dumped his wife while she was on her cancer surgery recovery bed. And it is clear he cats around. I don’t care how savvy a politician he may be. If a guy lies to his wife he will lie even more to the people he represents.
Steele, on the other hand, sounds EXCELLENT.
One issue i have with Steele is that he is pro affirmative action. Anyone know if he has altered that view?
Newt set me back too with the global warming BS. When I heard him say it I had a double-take.
OK...I misread that.
Anyhow, my main concerns about Michael Steele are that he’s a bit squishy (squishier than Newt, IMO), and he has no real track record of electoral success. I mean, he won Lt. Gov., but then lost pretty badly for Gov., as I recall. And I think Maryland is one of those states where the Gov. and Lt. Gov. run together on a ticket.
Someone that can answer “Yes” to all is Sarah Palin?
> We are SO better off with Newt pulling out of the race. He’s into “tri-partisanship” crappola rhetoric now (Republicans, Democrats, Independents) and that’s all we need now for a chairman of the REPUBLICAN Party, right?
Exactly, exactly. We’ve been weaseled to death the last few years, we need LESS of that and not more, going forward. No more RINOs, no more mealy-mouthed apologists. Instead: fiscal conservatism, stout morals, firm borders, strong defense. C’mon GOP, this is NOT rocket science. But it DOES involve having a SPINE!
I agree, most of the people are not intelligent enough to understand Newt’s “Contract with America”.
YES YES YES!!!!
I bet a lot of us here would pitch in to run some “educational” ads. People need to be educated on some basic concepts of free market economy, constitutional issues, etc and maybe it would be better if it was not coming from the Republican party. Maybe some entertaining and informative short info-commercials to be put into some of the prime time TV shows (since a lot of the people that need to hear this won’t be listening to Rush Limbaugh, etc.)
Do you believe exit polls?
could you elaborate?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
no more caucasian men?
seriously, does he have the ability to fight the brownshirts of “change.gov”?
Correct. Michael Steele is a good man. He is a good conservative. He is an African American. The Conservative Party seems desperate for African Americans to join us, but that seems only a dream. Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Powell Jr. and many others were put in positions of power in the Republican Party and did not embrace Conservatism. Rice want to get out and go into football. Colin Powell showed himself a liberal. J C. Watts got out and became a minister. The African Americans are not going to embrace the Conservative Party - Movement. It's "selling out' to them. Like that business about not joining the "middle class" because it's selling out.
The Hispanics are becoming the 'new African Americans' with the drugs, gangs, out-of-wedllock births and males not raising their children nor marrying the mothers...embracing the Latino hip-hop culture only in Spanish, it's "selling out" to study and work hard to achieve or succeed.
Our well of citizens to bring into the Conservative Party - Movement is running low.
And how well did Michael Steele work out as head of GOPAC? How many new young candidates was he able to recruit and promote to a win in any campaign?
I like him as a person, and I respect his conservative values, but I doubt if he can do what the RNC desperately needs to do to get into the age of the internet, and the age of ACORN.
I agree Gingrich has become a RINO and he also sounds meaner the times I heard him speak before the election, and not in a good way. I thought Steele once dissed the Republican party too.
As a fellow resident, I share your concern.
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Ditto! As someone who worked on the Steele for Senate campaign. He wants too much to go along, and we need a real hardnose for RNC Chair.
But when he ran for Senate he was beaten by an old white-haired Jewish guy, because the OWHJG had a D behind his name, and Michael had an R. Black voters in Baltimore and PG County overwhelmingly ignored the chance to have a black senator from the State of Maryland.
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