MC Mikey Steelo is scared of the Big Bad Rush
 

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In comments that were broadcast over the weekend, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele called Rush Limbaugh's rhetoric "incendiary" and "ugly" and insisted that he is in charge of the GOP.


"Rush will say what Rush has to say; we'll do what we have to do," RNC Chairman Michael Steele has said.

1 of 2 On Monday, however, after a blistering response from the conservative talk-radio kingpin, Steele told the online journal Politico that he "was maybe a little bit inarticulate."

"There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership," Steele said. He added, "There are those out there who want to look at what he's saying as incendiary and divisive and ugly. That's what I was trying to say. It didn't come out that way."

Steele's original remarks came from an interview on CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News." The interview was recorded Thursday. It aired Saturday.

The comments came as Democrats, including White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, have tried to paint Limbaugh -- who has said he wants to see the Obama administration "fail" -- as the effective head of the opposition party.

Steele rejected the idea, insisting "I'm the de facto leader of the Republican Party."



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You hear that sound?

That is the sound of the hydra eating itself.

I just posted this link in another thread, but in case you didn't see it, you'll enjoy this -- http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/in...ac-after-party

Wow.:D

I dun tole you, MC Hamma (Steelyo) is trying to beatbox, with his Kangol, and Breakin'...

CPAC is a bunch of neocon extremists... Jon Stewart shouldn't group them in with the mainstream republican party.

Really...??

Well it looks like they are the 'voice' of the GOP. Anytime the Chairperson doesn't have the stones to stand up to one of their main speakers because he is afraid that he will get called out says a lot.

I think that's a bit of an overgeneralization...although your characterization of the Republican party as the "hydra" kind of hints at what your conclusions would be anyway, right?

So, who really 'speaks' for the GOP?

Who is in charge?

Because if it's supposed to Mr. Steele, he is really doing a piss poor job at it so far.


I will call it like I see it without going into a prolonged debate.

I don't think there is any unity in the GOP right now.

I don't think everyone is on the same page.

I don't really think they right now which direction they need to take.

At this rate, if the GOP keeps doing what it's doing, they may as well settle in for a nice long 8 to 12.

...yes, I said 12...

Who's second in charge of the Democratic Party (behind Obama, obviously)?

Most of the time, the central leadership of the party does not have a singular speaker or voice - especially the Democratic party. Seemed to work out fine this time around, huh?

Yeah how about that, but the same can't really be said about the GOP.

My next question and be honest.

Do you think that Michael Steele is the qualified to be chair of the Republican party?

Why or why not?

Haha...oh DS, you crazy anti-Republican you...

Don't worry, I won't force you to get into a prolonged debate; I understand we all have other things we need to be doing in our lives. And, I realize the time-honored tradition on GC of making provocative, out there statements (such as say comparing the Republicans to a multi-headed monster), then qualifying the statement by discouraging any further debate.

I suppose if someone referred to the Democrats as Godzilla, a singular monster laying waste to the countryside, that too wouldn't merit debate...but I digress.

I will say that your comment about 8-12 years pre-supposes that President Obama will be successful enough to stave off any possible Republican challengers, no matter how fractured the party. Of course, that's still an open question.

I would only argue that Steele is no more of the voice of the Republican party than Howard Dean would be, or that Rush is no more the voice of the party than Al Franken. There's no one "voice" of a national party (other than, arguably, what's written in the party platform, and I still think that would be an overgeneralization).

But, as you said, no debate, so I'll drop it there.

About the CPAC video: If that's the most inflammatory stuff that went down, it must have actually been a lot better than I thought it would be.

You know how mainstream media bias is my favorite issue?

I think making Rush or the nuttier conservatives represent the GOP in the public mind serves a larger end while at the same time confirming the bias of the press core and die hard Democrats.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to look for representatives of the GOP at the Republican Governors Convention?

That fat man has a female cat...

That's about the only stuh he gets these days...

Steele 'choice' gaffe sparks GOP revolt


Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s series of gaffes turned into something more serious Thursday, as a leaders of a pillar of the GOP — the anti-abortion movement — shifted into open revolt over comments in an interview with the men’s magazine GQ.

Steele called abortion an “individual choice” and opposed a constitutional ban on abortion in the Feb. 24 interview, which appeared online Wednesday night. He echoed the language of the abortion rights movement and appearing to contradict his own heated assertions during his campaign for chairman that he is a committed soldier in the anti-abortion movement.

While he issued a statement Thursday affirming his opposition to abortion and his support for a constitutional amendment banning it, the damage appeared to be done as leading social conservatives publicly attacked the embattled chairman.

“Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling, and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grass-roots politics,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) said in a posting on his blog. “For Chairman Steele to even infer that taking a life is totally left up to the individual is not only a reversal of Republican policy and principle, but it's a violation of the most basic of human rights — the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a conservative rival who ultimately backed Steele's bid for chairman, also lambasted him in a written statement.

“Chairman Steele needs to reread the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and the 2008 GOP Platform,” said Blackwell. “He then needs to get to work or get out of the way.”

Hasn't he already backed off this statement?