A Democrat to head up the RNC

The BBQ Pit
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Apparently, we kicked Republicans so hard that they decided that they need to be lead by a guy who had to run as a Democrat to even make 45% of the vote.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001979.php

Michael Steele ran a pretty good campaign, but I’m not sure ditching your party affiliation in order to try and trick African Americans into thinking you are a Democrat and that Black leaders who endorsed your opponent endorsed you is really such a stellar qualification to lead the Republican party.

Personally, I think it sounds pretty great to me. It’s the perfect story of genuflection to the Democratic wave: a story of defeatism and enshrining it.

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1986: By being like the Republicans we can defeat the Republicans.

2006: By beling like the Democrats we can defeat the Democrats.

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Steele, recall was also the once anonymous Republican who referred to being a Republican as like having a “scarlet letter” hung around your neck.

That’s a lot of RNC pride baby!

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[QUOTE=Apos]
Steele, recall was also the once anonymous Republican who referred to being a Republican as like having a “scarlet letter” hung around your neck.

That’s a lot of RNC pride baby!
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Wasn’t Steele referring to the way being a black republican is treated by most blacks?

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Can I applaud this decision? I like the idea of a party of frauds being led by a fraud. :slight_smile:

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Actually, I deeply hope this is an honest move to back the Republican party away from the neocon, warmongering, proto-fundy mess it’s been morphing into for the past decade. I hope the neocon movement will take its rightful place on the “scrapheap of history,” if I may borrow a phrase.

Perhaps then, I’ll be able to vote Repub occasionally in good conscience.

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Nope. Menendez of Florida. Look for the Pubbies to take credit for Castro dying of cancer.

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Nope. Menendez of Florida. Look for the Pubbies to take credit for Castro dying of cancer.
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Martinez. They don’t all look alike, do they? :wink:

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That was a gift, John. I know how much you love to post corrections.

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[QUOTE=John Mace]
Martinez. They don’t all look alike, do they? :wink:
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They?

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They?
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Them.

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[QUOTE=elucidator]
That was a gift, John. I know how much you love to post corrections.
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Well, it could have been pretty confusing, since there is a Senator Menendez from NJ who is a Democrat, which would reinforce the OP’s title. It did need correcting.

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[QUOTE=Ogre]
Actually, I deeply hope this is an honest move to back the Republican party away from the neocon, warmongering, proto-fundy mess it’s been morphing into for the past decade. I hope the neocon movement will take its rightful place on the “scrapheap of history,” if I may borrow a phrase.
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It took then 30 years to fall off the rails; they won’t get it back on track overnight.

That said, I still feel that conservatism is fundamentally a value system built on selfishness, fear, and ignorance.

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[QUOTE=rjung]
That said, I still feel that conservatism is fundamentally a value system built on selfishness, fear, and ignorance.
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Thanks for the update.

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[QUOTE=Shagnasty]
Thanks for the update.
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Update on Ehrlich and Steele’s Disrespectin Democracy Tour:

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[QUOTE=Apos]
Steele, recall was also the once anonymous Republican who referred to being a Republican as like having a “scarlet letter” hung around your neck.
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Hmmm . . .

Wouldn’t a big red “R” tattooed/branded on the forehead be more effective? :slight_smile:

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The Mark of McCain?

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  • BANG! *

Now I just need somebody to swear out this warrant…

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[QUOTE=John Mace]
Them.
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Great big mutant ants?

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[QUOTE=Shagnasty]

[QUOTE=rjung]

That said, I still feel that conservatism is fundamentally a value system built on selfishness, fear, and ignorance.
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Thanks for the update.
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:smiley: