Republicans unhappy with Michael Steele's race

[ShibbOleth]

Seriously, that is a current headline on USAToday's website. Now, if you click through to the article, the full headline is "Republicans unhappy with Michael Steele's race for chairman (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/12/michael-steele-republican-national-committee-/1)". I have to wonder if that was an intentional cut off.

Anyway, since they brought it up - do you think Steele will retain the helm of the GOP or is someone else going to steele it away from him?

[descamisado]

He'll could end up being the dark horse winner.

[gonzomax]

He blew 3/4 s of their money . He brought embarrassment. His speeches have been terrible. He should go.

[Merijeek]

He blew 3/4 s of their money . He brought embarrassment. His speeches have been terrible. He should go.

Yeah, it's almost like he grabbed headlines and helped bury shit like what his party was actually up to.

-Joe

[gonzomax]

If that's what his job was. He was very good.

[5 time champ]

He blew 3/4 s of their money . He brought embarrassment. His speeches have been terrible. He should stay.

[joebuck20]

Anyway, since they brought it up - do you think Steele will retain the helm of the GOP or is someone else going to steele it away from him?

Ahh, I see what you did there.

[Boyo Jim]

He blew 3/4 s of their money . He brought embarrassment. His speeches have been terrible. He should stay.

Damn, you beat me to it.

[China Guy]

I think it would be a Dem wetdream for Steele to stay

[Boyo Jim]

I think it would be a Dem wetdream for Steele to stay

Tell that to President Palin in 2013. :p

[Boyo Jim]

Steele has nowhere else to go. He couldn't get himself elected to public office in Maryland. He's not such an ultraconservative that he can find a place on Fox, or any of the other landing spots unemployed Republicans get offered. He's far too incompetent to be given a real job in a corporation.

[Bricker]

Steele has nowhere else to go. He couldn't get himself elected to public office in Maryland. He's not such an ultraconservative that he can find a place on Fox, or any of the other landing spots unemployed Republicans get offered. He's far too incompetent to be given a real job in a corporation.

He's a member of the state bar of Pennsylvania, having graduated Georgetown University's Law school. He worked as a corporate securities associate at the Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, doing financial investments for Wall Street underwriters, and product liability litigation. He also founded the Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm.

I'm just wondering how you can call him incompetent with that resume, given that it's a more impressive set of professional accomplishments than the general run of the American work force.

[Boyo Jim]

I call him incompetent based on his performance as RNC chair, and many of his amazing public statements.

[pseudotriton ruber ruber]

He's a member of the state bar of Pennsylvania, having graduated Georgetown University's Law school. He worked as a corporate securities associate at the Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, doing financial investments for Wall Street underwriters, and product liability litigation. He also founded the Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm.

I'm just wondering how you can call him incompetent with that resume, given that it's a more impressive set of professional accomplishments than the general run of the American work force.

No, no, no, Bricker--your line is "a more impressive set of professional accomplishments than Barack Obama." Did you not get the memo?

[ElvisL1ves]

Is that the partisanship-above-all GOPper standard for their own leaders now? That they only need to be a little better than "the general run of the American work force"?

Sad.

[Starving Artist]

I've never been that great a fan of Michael Steele as head of the RNC, but come on, do you really think his resume is only "a little better" than that of the general American workforce? If so you must move in pretty exalted circles.

[Chronos]

His resume is certainly good enough that he'll land on his feet, and there are probably a large number of good jobs for which he's quite well qualified. But chairman of a national political party isn't one of them.

[Boyo Jim]

He won't get a job teaching English literature, that's for sure.

[Marley23]

Steele has nowhere else to go. He couldn't get himself elected to public office in Maryland. He's not such an ultraconservative that he can find a place on Fox, or any of the other landing spots unemployed Republicans get offered. He's far too incompetent to be given a real job in a corporation.
There are plenty of think tanks in the world. You're right that he was not conservative enough for a lot of people in the Republican establishment, he did very poorly with their finances and did not do a good job representing the party in public. But once you get into the kind of circles Steele was in, you'll always be able to find public speaking gigs and things like that. Maybe it will take him a little time and it might not count as a "real" job, but I don't think he'll wind up in the gutter.



Unless The Gutter is a new lesbian themed bondage club. ;)

[gonzomax]

He's a member of the state bar of Pennsylvania, having graduated Georgetown University's Law school. He worked as a corporate securities associate at the Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, doing financial investments for Wall Street underwriters, and product liability litigation. He also founded the Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm.

I'm just wondering how you can call him incompetent with that resume, given that it's a more impressive set of professional accomplishments than the general run of the American work force.

Those are not the same skill sets for a political chairmanship. It is like saying Arod is the best hitter in baseball so he qualifies to run the Republican party.

[Bricker]

Those are not the same skill sets for a political chairmanship. It is like saying Arod is the best hitter in baseball so he qualifies to run the Republican party.

But I was responding to this set of claims:

Steele has nowhere else to go. He couldn't get himself elected to public office in Maryland. He's not such an ultraconservative that he can find a place on Fox, or any of the other landing spots unemployed Republicans get offered. He's far too incompetent to be given a real job in a corporation.

I didn't say anything about his political acumen. Boyo Jim said, "He's far too incompetent to be given a real job in a corporation." I disagreed.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Steele has nowhere else to go. He couldn't get himself elected to public office in Maryland. He's not such an ultraconservative that he can find a place on Fox, or any of the other landing spots unemployed Republicans get offered. He's far too incompetent to be given a real job in a corporation.
Meh. If Juan Williams can get a job on Fox News, so can Steele. And for what it's worth, I don't see how Steele's incompetence as RNC chairman reflects on his potential competence for a totally unrelated job.

[Boyo Jim]

Juan Williams has a pretty long journalist career at NPR and previously at the Washington Post, IIRC. I actually met him once back in the 80s. The guy was so obviously into his job as reporter. He arrived really early to cover a conference where I was the only person there setting up a PA and recording system. Basically, I was a nobody, without even any real connection to the conference. But he immediately started peppering me with questions about my background and my work, to the point where I had to stop him so I could get my work done. I think he was always looking for an angle that would make a story, though he didn't find one with me.