# The Repizzles are in the Hizzouse (RNC Plans for Rebranding the Image) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 19, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548 "2009-02-19T14:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/101 "2009-02-24T07:32:53Z")
Interesting cite, thanks! Just goes to show how much things change. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/102 "2009-03-12T11:20:57Z")
This is a slightly zombified thread, but I didn’t know if this tidbit was worth starting a new thread. Michael Steele is toast. From a [GQ article as reported on HuffPost](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/11/steele-abortion-is-an-ind_n_174092.html), this exchange: > [@](#): > > M: The choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life or you can choose abortion. You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think the power of the argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other. > > \*\*L: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion? > > M: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice. > > L: You do? > > M: Yeah. Absolutely.\*\* > > L: Are you saying you don’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade? > > M: I think Roe v. Wade–as a legal matter, Roe v. Wade was a wrongly decided matter. > > L: Okay, but if you overturn Roe v. Wade, how do women have the choice you just said they should have? > > M: The states should make that choice: that’s what the choice is. The individual choice rests in the states. Let them decide. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/103 "2009-03-12T12:36:04Z")
The only problem there is was that it wasn’t very off the hook. I mean, it is beyond the cutting edge, and it certainly is an update of the party image that will surprise everyone, as he promised. However, he should have said that it was an “indivizzizle chazizzle” or “Whooop, there it is for you to choose.” At this point, maybe he’s just going to end up saying “It’s hard out there for a national party chairman.” ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/104 "2009-03-12T14:19:53Z")
It’s a “State’s Rights” position common to some Republicans. I’m not sure what it’s all about, but suspect some of them “appear” to support a pro-choice position which placates the average-but-pro-choice-or-don’t- really-care-or-are-not-a single-issue-voter, but actually support a “State’s Rights” position (that R v.W should not have been a Federal issue) because they believe that if each state chooses, they can or will restrict abortion on a state-by-state level. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/105 "2009-03-12T14:23:13Z")
[And he’s already walking it back.](http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/12/steele-pro-life/) I don’t think this guy’s balls can be seen with the naked eye. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/106 "2009-03-12T14:47:49Z")
And there’s the problem the GOP has right now - Steele’s hip-hop thing was awkward and goofy as all hell, but as soon as he tries to drag some of the party’s rhetoric forward a few decades, he gets shouted down. It’s normal for chairmen to be somewhat divisive, but Steele’s off to a bad start. And since I don’t know where else to say this… when Steele made his “urban/suburban hip-hop context” comment, the only words that came to my mind were “rapping grannies.” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/107 "2009-03-12T15:01:34Z")
Thank God for the second P. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/108 "2009-03-12T16:06:35Z")
[Judge Doom] You see, I bought the Red Car so I could _dismantle_ it. [/Judge Doom] ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/109 "2009-03-12T16:44:58Z")
He [tried](http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/13/steele-no-reason-trust/) to tell us. > [@](#): > > Michael Steele: “You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.” ---
**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:** [March 12, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/110 "2009-03-12T18:11:31Z")
I keep thinking of Poochie, still. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/111 "2009-03-12T18:45:43Z")
Apparently, Steele’s position on [rights for gay couples](http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/03/quote-for-th-15.html) also fluxes quite a bit depending on the audience. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/112 "2009-03-13T03:02:38Z")
Dead man walking! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/113 "2009-03-13T21:49:01Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > I have it on good authority that Obama is a Muslim who faked his birth certificate and it was Hillary, on the Grassy Knoll with the Sniper’s rifle that did for JFK. Word? Fo shizzle? Yo dawg, don’t be dissin’ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548/114 "2009-03-13T21:51:34Z")
> [@haymarketmartyr](#): > > This pretty much comes down to “how stupid do you think people are?” > > I don’t think voters are quite that stupid. Wanna bet? :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repizzles-are-in-the-hizzouse-rnc-plans-for-rebranding-the-image/486548.md?page=5)