RNC Chairman Steele: 'I love puppies'

This is soooo predictable.

This is another Sarah Palin move from the RNC. Hillary was a woman and they thought they would get female votes if they went with Palin.
Barack is a black male... Is that all they see? Is it really possible to be that shallow?

Steele is a lightweight. He's barely coherent, and he's definitely in the 'Republican bubble' where people fail to acknowlegde outside realities like when he famously compared stem cell research to the Holocaust:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020902540.html

Symbolism over substance. The more things change with the Grand Old Pachyderms, the more they stay the same.

Will he send around a copy of the magic negro song?

Hmmm.... so will Rush have to scrap his racist material, or is he still the real boss??
I guess this a good omen for the Steelers

I guess they didn't learn from their Palin experience to not chase voter demographics!

It is nice to hear about the new African-American GOP Chairman.

I look forward to hearing more positive things about him.

W-I-L-D - the gop is really that bad off!
NOW CHECK THIS OUT...
Okay, this is to bad for the republicans, but great for the democrats. First and foremost this is a poor attempt to color the republicans to compete against Obama and the Democrats. "The Spook Who Sat By The Door", is what this is, it was used during the late sixties when administrations of all the fed agencies needed a dark person after the civil rights movement. I did not realize that this party was in that much trouble, but after this move it is quite obvious. You chose an idiot, who when he campaign for the LT Gov. (and loss) job said, "It was the republicans who freed the slaves". Did he not check with his staff to see if this was accurate. Because, my recollection is that it was republicans but they are now the democrat party. See "Reconstruction". To think I went to the same prep school as this person. He had to be in section 4-D. Well at least he get a chance to be with Sarah Palin.

Here is my advice to the GOP, first acknowledge and understand that Americans are fed up with this BS illusion regarding the moral majority when there are over 6 million Americans out of work. SO THAT RICH PEOPLE WON'T LOSE ANY MONEY. Second realize and concede that the middle class is prettymuch history. Therefore, you have no more buffer (How can any America call himself a true republican, who's household annual income is less than $120,000, annually) for you . You have to look outside of the Bible belt and start recruiting people of all colors, ethnic background and as well sexual preference with sincerity. Third, stop hating groups of people and playing games with their lives like this is a frat house at Yale or Harvard. ie The Gulf wars.. Finally, and most important this is not a country for just whites and everyone else to assume their just inferior. It is weakening our country. GROW UP!

Another cynical move by the RNC. Nice try, copycats.

W-I-L-D - the gop is really that bad off!
NOW CHECK THIS OUT...
Okay, this is to bad for the republicans, but great for the democrats. First and foremost this is a poor attempt to color the republicans to compete against Obama and the Democrats. "The Spook Who Sat By The Door", is what this is, it was used during the late sixties when administrations of all the fed agencies needed a dark person after the civil rights movement. I did not realize that this party was in that much trouble, but after this move it is quite obvious. You chose an idiot, who when he campaign for the LT Gov. (and loss) job said, "It was the republicans who freed the slaves". Did he not check with his staff to see if this was accurate. Because, my recollection is that it was republicans but they are now the democrat party. See "Reconstruction". To think I went to the same prep school as this person. He had to be in section 4-D. Well at least he get a chance to be with Sarah Palin.

Here is my advice to the GOP, first acknowledge and understand that Americans are fed up with this BS illusion regarding the moral majority when there are over 6 million Americans out of work. SO THAT RICH PEOPLE WON'T LOSE ANY MONEY. Second realize and concede that the middle class is prettymuch history. Therefore, you have no more buffer (How can any America call himself a true republican, who's household annual income is less than $120,000, annually) for you . You have to look outside of the Bible belt and start recruiting people of all colors, ethnic background and as well sexual preference with sincerity. Third, stop hating groups of people and playing games with their lives like this is a frat house at Yale or Harvard. ie The Gulf wars.. Finally, and most important this is not a country for just whites and everyone else to assume their just inferior. It is weakening our country. GROW UP!

"It is nice to hear about the new African-American GOP Chairman.

I look forward to hearing more positive things about him."

Posted by: knowdalaw

Positive thing: He loves puppies.

Actions speak louder than words (sorry rushbo), and it really shows who leads and who follows.

p.s. Everytime I here the phrase "the party of Lincoln" I puke a little in my mouth. This is the least understood term used in politics. Mark, you should do a basic history lesson for the pugs here with a story on the history of the parties.

Sean Hannity in black face.

Time for the GOP to move aside and let the libertarians represent the real conservatives.

You heard it from "sigh" in Riverton, Wyoming first.

Until the libertarian awakening, "Barack on" Mr. President!

The best gift the Democrats can have is the current Republican Party. I just can't wait for the next stunt the Republicans pull and expect the American public to take the Republican Party seriously. Geez, Sarah Palin to counteract Hillary Clinton, McCain having to consult his staff to figure out how many houses he owns, Rush Limbaugh's fascination with the "Barack the Magic Negro" song and now the selection of Michael Steele as Party Chairman after the election of Barack Obama. How much more of this kind of BS will be dumped on the American public?

i suppose his first statement had to be full of bombast in order to grab the attention of party loyalists, but a measure of humility would probably have gone a lot farther in reaching out to moderates. don't these people have any other words in their vocabulary besides aggressive, warlike taunts. so, if i oppose you then you are going to knock me down? great. thanks.

what was this guy in a previous life, a used-car salesman?

[["To my friends in the Northeast, get ready, baby, it is time to turn it on and work, and work to do what we always do well - and that is win,'' Steele said.

"We are going to win again in the Northeast. We're going to continue to win in the South. We are going to win with a new storm in the Midwest.,'' Steele told his party. "And we're going to get to the West, we're going to lock it down, and we're going to win there too....]]

calm down, you maniac.

COME ON PUGS!!!!! DO YOU HERE YOUR OWN VENOM!!!!! Steele says "We're going to say to friend and foe alike: 'We want you to be a part of us, we want you to with be with us.' And for those who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over". You guys are really taking the fast train to Whig town.

"First African-American Named Chairman of GOP"? If he's really the first African-American, he must be over 400 years old. He looks great for his age.

Of course they did. And he ain't no Barack Obama. He's not as educated, articulate, or intelligent. Like others said, he's the RNC's Sarah Palin. Republicans are really some sore losers, aren't they? Good riddance to Republicans. I sincerely hope that voters remember that while their Republican congressmen were pulling media stunts like electing a dumbo to head their committee because he's black and refusing to work with Democrats to pass legislation, people were losing their jobs with no end in sight.

Steele is the only first African American. His mother or father is not white, you all forget this. Obama mother was half white and he is bi-racial.

Sen. Roland Burris, too is the first African American US Senator. His mom or dad is not white.

It's ALWAYS A GIMMICK with the G.O.P. aka. GIMMICKY OLD PARTY.

The GOP still trying to find itself? Nothing changed, they will still read from their stupid ideoligies playbook.

You fools obviously don't know who Michael Steele is. He has a more impressive resume than Obama and has been heavily involved in the RNC for awhile now. I for one am very happy that he is now the Chairman. If I were a democrat I would be very afraid now. Mr. Steele will not take the crap from the media like other republicans.

This is a typical move by the Republicans. They are just trying to get the black vote and to undermine Obama.

I am sick to death of you democrats and republicans bickering. Grow up and get down to business. No wonder this country is in such a mess. Obama can't make a complete sentence without err....uh.... and Rush yelling, fingers pointing at each other, trying to lay the blame at each others feet. And Pelosi, well, I can't put what I think of her in print. The two ruling parties need to either quit sending us to the poor house or step out of the way and let someone in to clean things up.

To paraphrase --"you who want to obstruct (us) get ready to be knocked over". It sounds like George Bush hasn't yet left the house. Wow! What a scintillating call to the faithful.

This man has some deranged beliefs. This is more clueless tokenism by the GOP. Don't buy it!

How tone-deaf can the Republicans possibly be? It's been almost three months since they lost, and they STILL don't understand why it happened.

I like when he said "...those of you who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over." Does this mean he's going to knock over all the obstructionist Republicans in Congress who refuse to work with President Obama to get this country moving again? Make some phone calls, Michael. Explain to them the meaning of the word "bipartisan."

From Michael Steele: "We're going to bring this party to every corner, every boardroom, every neighborhood, every community..." I think you've pretty much got that boardroom vote sewn up there, Michael. You might want to think about redeploying the troops elsewhere.

From the story: "The Republican Party's share of both the African-American and Hispanic votes fell short of its goals in 2008." As Chris Matthews would say, "HA!" I'd call that something of an understatement.

Liberals really hate when someone deserving like Michael Steele gets a position based on education and intelligence rather than skin color, because it shows that breaking racial/physical characteristic boundaries happen everywhere and not just in their closed and misguided idiology...

Maybe this guy will have an exerpence on the road to Damascus, er, Washington, and come to Jesus, ah, change registration to Democrat.

Carrying water for the likes of Bush Cheney and Paulson has gotta be the most thankless job around.

This is one the dumbest moves the republicans have made. If you were going to front an African American, you should have chosen one with pull in minority communities. Desperate people do crazy things and this is crazy.

Talk about race bating. Is the new GOP mottto, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."?

They tried pretending they were inclusive in Illinois in 2004, when they tried to pull the wool over our eyes with Alan Keyes. This won't fool anyone either.

Steele is a great American. I'll bet he isn't sitting in Church listening to guys like Jeremiah Wright. Or getting advice from terrorists like Ayers. Oh Oh, I'll bet his house was not given to him by people like Rezko. No, he is a true American. I'll bet he even has a birth certificate that he will show.

While Barry Obama is stuffing his cabinet with people that failed to pay their taxes, Michael Steele is going to bring real Change to America. People like Keith who only see Republicans as White People, need to wake up. Martin Luther Kings Grand Daughter tried to Keep Obama out of office. That's right folks. The Grand Daughter of the great MLK voted against Barry Hussein Obama.

The Democrat party is going to destroy America. Obama is Calling, Now get this, for 55 Billion in cuts to defense. He is going to close Gitmo and put the terrorist right here on our soil. Cut defense and let his muslim friends run wild in America.

God help us. Only 1451 days until we can make America Safe again.

This is so sad! No, not the fact that they elected an African American but the reason behind it. This shows deep desperation by the GOP party to have a peace of their own Barack Obama. A GOP party that feels they're going under and need to take drastic actions like this to stay alive. Just like they did with Sarah Palin, they're trying to sell the American people their own Republican version.and just like with her, Americans are not buying it. Anyways, congratulations to Mr.Steele.

Weren't Republicans just told that by nominating the poster boy for illegal alien amnesty that Latinos would embrace the GOP in droves? How did that work out?

Face it, Republicans will never be able to outpromise Democrats when it comes to giving away goodies from the ever-diminishing productive sector of society.

Just ask President Wendell Wilkie and President Nelson Rockefeller and Governor Judy Barr Topinka.

Steele touts "those conservative principles that made us the strong and proud party that we are." Does he mean the conservative principles like deregulation, war, torture and intolerance that turned this country into a third-world beggar nation? Those principles? Or the principles of the U.S. Constitution, that Republicans ignore, but that Democrats are trying to revive?

If Republicans prefer principles that benefit only the rich while throwing the populace into poverty and despair, then maybe they should move to countries like Venezuela, the Sudan, or Cuba.

"To my friends in the Northeast, get ready, baby, it is time to turn it on and work, and work to do what we always do well - and that is win,'' Steele said.

It's the governing part they aren't to good at.

No one believes the Republican Party is more diverse for this move. The overwhelming majority of Republicans are white, middle-class, suburban and scared to death of anything beyond their little, gated-community scope of reality.

Yeah, they may think it's great and feel all goodie-goodie inside about a black man as head of the RNC -- but watch that same black man move into their neighborhood, and all they'll think about is how far the value of their house will drop now that "the neighborhood is going to hell".

The Party of Lincoln???? Quit joking. Abraham Lincoln was a founding member of the Illinois Republican Party in 1856, founded for the specific purpose of promoting the national party's first candidate for president (John Fremont).

The Republican Party of the 1860s was filled with radicals and idealists who bucked current trends.

The Republican Party of the 20th and 21st centuries has become exactly the opposite.

The Republican Party has not been the "Party of Lincoln" since it abandoned Lincoln's southern reconstruction plans soon after his assassination, and completely abandoned the South altogether in 1876, while brokering a deal with Democratic Party leaders to allow Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to be installed as President, even though Democrat William B. Tilden won the popular vote, and the Electoral vote was essentially tied.

In exchange for four more years of a Republican in the White House, the Republican Party basically screwed African-Americans for about 100 years.

Before 1876, Republican reconstruction plans allowed blacks easy voting rights, and all places were non-discriminatory. After 1876, when Reconstruction was abandoned, in came the Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, lynchings, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and a far more active KKK.

Blacks in the south have never forgotten how the Republican Party abandoned them in the 1870s. And the Republican Party now wants to get black people to think it's suddenly different because a black man is now the chair of the RNC?

He's an Oreo Cookie. Trotting out a woman, black, gay, Mexican or any other type of "token" minority and installing him/her in a leadership position merely as a means of convincing the public that you're open-minded and diverse just isn't going to work. That's like saying "Oh, yes, I'm not a racist -- look, I hired a Mexican guy to cut my lawn".

Party of Lincoln indeed. NOT.

Lets hope for him and the party. With the socialist president that you all voted in power I pray for my freedom and my country that i love so much....God help us and our country..I am a great american not like our president...........

I hope he does some good as I pray for the country I love. With the socialist president president in power we all face doom soon enough. God bless america and God help us. We need all the help we can use to keep us free from Obama and his party.......

Whoa. Dicy comments. Frankly, I don't CARE who the leader is. If I don't agree with their policies, I won't vote that way.

It doesn't matter WHAT color you are (or claim to be), it's your VIEWS.

Cynical? Probably a little, but not that much.

How many of you who voted for bo did so based strictly on his qualifications with no thought as to the color of his skin?

Come on, now, be honest.

Does the name 'Condeleeza Rice' strike a bell?

How many Republican Senators are ex-members of the KKK?

How many Republican Senators admitted leaving a young woman to drown in a car while he got a good night's sleep before reporting the accident?

More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 than did democrats.

What goes around comes around.

good luck to mr. steele.

it's easy to fall into the line and attack the gop for their choice at it's surface. paraphrasing sentiments expressed before my post it seems shallow, opportunist and desperate.

though, i'm going to step back and judge the man by the content of his character and not by his skin. let's see if steele can reign in the elephant and bring it to the middle.

if anything it should balance so of the chatter on the far right and allow the republicans in office to possibly begin to work with the obama administration instead of getting all foolish with knee-jerk reactions to rush limbaugh comments.

let's see if steele can bring a new dignity back to the party. i'm willing to wait and see before i attack him or his party. i won't bring myself down to the level so many on the right did over the past couple of years while president obama was running for office.

Chicago biggots must read this newspaper a lot. These comments are just another form of hate. They are effectively saying that a black man who becomes a Republican is an Uncle Tom.

When anyone walks of the plantation whether it be a Jew who believes Israel has overstepped its bounds or a Hispanics who believes that immigrants need to learn to speak English you all decide that these people are screwed up lackies and puppets of the white man.

If someone believes that embryonic stem cell research results in the killing a life then it is in that person's belief equal to a holocaust. It's time for people to stop using the term "the holocaust". Its a holocaust as they are still happening to this day.

The world can't reserve the concept of a tragedy for only the Jewish race. Look at the death and rape taking place in Africa and no one including the liberals in America or Europe realy care about these acts on genocide (Holocaust is a good word for them).

Is this another Clarence Thomas/Sarah Palin stuffed shirt 'icon' of the non-Democratic Repugnican Whig Brand?

It's no wonder that competent people don't run for office in Illinois. The tone of these comments would drive any responsible person to stay out of politics. No one in Illinois who voted for Blago is credible to criticize anyone else.

Ironic that it is all the libs on this site that can't see past the color of this man's skin. Shame on you.

I am a great american not like our president...........

Posted by: Donald Laurence Wolverton | January 31, 2009 7:48 AM

You gotta love those self proclaimed "great" Americans who will tell you who is American enough and who isn't. Funny...I didn't see a test of any kind written in the Declaration or the Constitution. You and Sean Vannity make me sick. Your political views make you not a patriot, just a partisan. The constitution begins We the People....not insert your name here. You insult the men who faught and died for the freedom to express your warped view. Shame on you.

Ironic that it is all the libs on this site that can't see past the color of this man's skin. Shame on you.

Posted by: Matt P | January 31, 2009 12:27 PM

They have eyes but can not read. It is the hypocricy that is evident not the color.

More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 than did democrats.

What goes around comes around.

Posted by: Terry from Maine | January 31, 2009 8:18 AM

I'm not going to let TfM get away with this one. The vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is more accurately viewed from North vs. South lines than it is Republican vs. Democrat. While it's true that a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats -- overall -- voted for this act, that's far from the whole story.
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In its original House version, the vote went like this (totals are in "For-Against" format):
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Democrats: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republicans: 138-34 (80%-20%)

Votes on the Senate version went like this:

Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
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The Senate version, voted on by the House, looked like this:
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Democrats: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republicans: 136-35 (80%-20%)
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(Well, actually, viewed EXACTLY as Terry stated it, more Democrats than Republicans actually voted for the Act, but I do get what he's saying percentage-wise and concede the point.)
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BUT, looked at more accurately as a North vs. South issue, the numbers become more like this:
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The original House version:
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Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
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Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)
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The Senate version:

Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%)
Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%)
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Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%)
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The Southern Democrats of 1964 were ANYTHING but liberal, nor had they EVER even remotely resembled what we'd recognize today as a liberal; clearly the South in general opposed this act in overwhelming numbers. In the North, Dems were more in favor of it than Republicans, both in numbers and in percentages. Furthermore, what Terry doesn't mention is that, of those Dems in the South in 1964 (the Dixiecrats), most were either voted out of office, forced into retirement, or became Republicans between 1964 and the early 1980's, DIRECTLY as a protest against this legislation. Those Dixiecrats and their successors are exactly the ones who've formed the Republican bastion that forms the backbone of the party today.
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As to "what goes around comes around," I'd agree with Terry that the Republican party is reaping the direct benefit of their decades of staunchly and obstinately disregarding what's really going on in the country. And thank God for that! Republicans as they are now are the best gift Democrats
could have asked for! PLEASE! Keep it up! Don't change a thing!