# Michael Steele Doom Watch - A Poll, A Prediction, A Laugh Riot **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 4, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330 "2009-05-04T20:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/1 "2009-05-04T20:07:13Z")
I know it’s wrong to have fun at anyone’s expense, but I’ll have to, once again, make an exception in Michael Steele’s case. The man’s been an utter embarrassment since day one [_you decide which day in which year that was. There are so many to choose from_]. It now seems a heated battle for control between Steele and other RNC power brokers is coming to a head. > [@The Washington Times](#): > > [EXCLUSIVE: Steele fights back against RNC ‘scheme’](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/30/steele-fights-back-against-rnc-scheme/) Under attack from conservatives since taking office on Jan. 30, Michael S. Steele on Wednesday blasted a group of members pushing for new checks and balances on the chairman’s spending powers, accusing them of a power grab “scheme.” \<\\> > [@The Examiner](#): > > [Embarrassed GOP chair Steele fights for party’s control](http://www.examiner.com/x-9475-Baltimore-Progressive-Community-Examiner~y2009m4d29-Embarrassed-GOP-chair-Steele-fights-for-partys-control) In the bowels of the Republican Party, a move is apparently on to “embarrass and neuter” the GOP national committee chair, Maryland’s own Michael Steele. Once the number two to former (and future?) Gov. Robert “Bobby Smooth” Ehrlich, Steele has been in the national hotseat recently for his ridiculous “he said - he said” media feud with right-wing broadcaster and Obama foe Rush Limbaugh and for generally being an obstructionist tool. \<\\> And to show [Steele’s still impressive skill at douchechillery we have this little clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40beCFVXSj0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftpmdc%2Etalkingpointsmemo%2Ecom%2F2009%2F04%2Fsteele%2Di%2Dwear%2Dmy%2Dgop%2Dhat%2Dbackwards%2Dthats%2Dhow%2Dwe%2Droll%2Din%2Dthe%2Dnortheast%2Ephp&feature=player_embedded). [And this gem.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veXTSN4s8bs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcrooksandliars%2Ecom%2Fjohn%2Damato%2Fend%2Dnear%2Dmichael%2Dsteele%2Djust%2Dlisten%2Djim&feature=player_embedded) So, my question is by when do you believe Michael Steele will be shown the door, given the old heave-ho, pushed to the curb, eighty-sixed, thrown out on his keister, given the boot, and pink-slipped? I’ll make a bold prediction and say he’ll be gone, or at least marginalized into irrelevency, by July 1st. Whenever the day of Steele’s, in my opinion inevitable, demise arrives, it’ll be good riddence to a man who doesn’t have sense enough to be embarrassed to be the token black face of a party that cluelessly and cynically placed one of the most inept and unqualified politicians in America today in charge of the RNC solely because he’s black and Republican. Idiot. As an aside and just as interesting (at least to me) in both of the articles I cited above is the RNC’s special meeting, scheduled for next month, to vote on a resolution officially labelling Obama and the Democratic party socialists. O\_o…Wow. I tell ya, the RNC has become funnier than the Keystone Cops. Self-immolation, I dub thee G.O.P. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/2 "2009-05-04T20:22:47Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > As an aside and just as interesting (at least to me) in both of the articles I cited above is the RNC’s special meeting, scheduled for next month, to vote on a resolution officially labelling Obama and the Democratic party socialists. O\_o…Wow. I tell ya, the RNC has become funnier than the Keystone Cops. Self-immolation, I dub thee G.O.P. While they’re at it, they should vote on a resolution that officially labels Obama as the Antichrist. Might as well go all the way. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/3 "2009-05-04T21:02:00Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > ISo, my question is by when do you believe Michael Steele will be shown the door, given the old heave-ho, pushed to the curb, eighty-sixed, thrown out on his keister, given the boot, and pink-slipped? I’ll make a bold prediction and say he’ll be gone, or at least marginalized into irrelevency, by July 1st. I have no idea what’s involved, but its apparently very difficult to oust a sitting Chair. And of course it doesn’t make the GOP look very good, so I doubt he’ll be kicked out, though there’s obviously some ongoing efforts to marginalize him. That said, if the GOP looses the upcoming NJ and VA governors races in Nov, I could see him stepping down. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/4 "2009-05-05T01:23:50Z")
Does anyone disagree with my decision to call him Poochie? Oh, and NJ is not looking good for them. Cristie is running ads about the Flat Tax. And he sounds _nuts_ in the ads. Like Crazy Eddie. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/5 "2009-05-05T01:40:57Z")
I’m not seeing an exit strategy for the Republicans. I mean, if Olympia Snowe became their spiritual leader it would do a helluva lot for them, but I just don’t see that happening. Maybe Bloomberg in two years? I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/6 "2009-05-05T01:44:44Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Does anyone disagree with my decision to call him Poochie? I don’t get it, but, um, no, I don’t think I have a problem with you calling him Poochie. > [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Oh, and NJ is not looking good for them. Cristie is running ads about the Flat Tax. And he sounds _nuts_ in the ads. Like Crazy Eddie. Linkie? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/7 "2009-05-05T01:55:59Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > I don’t get it, but, um, no, I don’t think I have a problem with you calling him Poochie. > Linkie? Hes banking off of a _Simpson’s_ episode about a doomed kids cartoon character named “Poochie” who makes an abrupt(!) exit. Kind of like Kumar on _House_ who blew his brains out because of Obama. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/8 "2009-05-05T01:58:15Z")
No way can they get rid of Steele. He is a smarter version of Sarah Palin. Fun and kooky. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/9 "2009-05-05T02:08:20Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hes banking off of a _Simpson’s_ episode about a doomed kids cartoon character named “Poochie” who makes an abrupt(!) exit. Kind of like Kumar on _House_ who blew his brains out because of Obama. Ahh. I see. This must be the first time NOT watching the Simpsons contributed to my ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/10 "2009-05-05T02:12:05Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > No way can they get rid of Steele. He is a smarter version of Sarah Palin. Fun and kooky. Fun and kooky I’ll give you, but smarter? The guy’s an incompetent nincompoop…without an ounce of self respect. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/11 "2009-05-05T02:14:13Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Fun and kooky I’ll give you, but smarter? The guy’s an incompetent nincompoop…without an ounce of self respect. I don’t see where you contradicted Second Stone. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/12 "2009-05-05T02:21:48Z")
The Repubs can’t get rid of Steele. That move would cost them the black vote! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/13 "2009-05-05T02:22:39Z")
I don’t think he’s be ousted, but he’ll be emasculated. No budget control, and they will re-write any rules they have to to shut him up. He of course is too much of a whore to quit in protest. He will become the GOP Steppinfetchit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/14 "2009-05-05T02:27:46Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > The Repubs can’t get rid of Steele. That move would cost them the black vote! He is the black Republican vote, the other one died. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/15 "2009-05-05T02:34:45Z")
Hmmm… Michael Steele or Alan Keyes? How’s a Republican to choose? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/16 "2009-05-05T02:35:08Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I don’t see where you contradicted Second Stone. Okay, how about this, smart guy… Who, between Palin and Steele, do you think would win at Scrabble? Oh, wait, I guess he’d win. Well, bucko, which would win at Trivial Pursuit? Ha! …oh, hmm, I guess he’d win that too. I guess even Michael Steele is smarter than Sarah Palin. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/17 "2009-05-05T02:37:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Hmmm… Michael Steele or Alan Keyes? How’s a Republican to choose? Michael Steele is just a clueless idiot. Alan Keyes is a freaking wacko. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/18 "2009-05-05T02:41:09Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Michael Steele is just a clueless idiot. Alan Keyes is a freaking wacko. I think Keyes may be a freaking whacko idiot. But the real question is… Where does Sara Palin fall on the Keyes/Steele scale? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/19 "2009-05-05T02:44:38Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I don’t think he’s be ousted, but he’ll be emasculated. No budget control, and they will re-write any rules they have to to shut him up. He of course is too much of a whore to quit in protest. > > He will become the GOP Steppinfetchit. If the RNC doesn’t boot him, which I still believe they ultimately will, I think you’re right, he’ll stay around, even if in some diminished capacity. As I said, the man has no self respect, and anyway, where’s he going to go? He’s become a national laughing stock, and therefore a pariah. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330/20 "2009-05-05T02:45:45Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I think Keyes may be a freaking whacko idiot. > > But the real question is… Where does Sara Palin fall on the Keyes/Steele scale? I think Sarah is just above turnip. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-steele-doom-watch-a-poll-a-prediction-a-laugh-riot/495330.md?page=2)