Comments on: Can Michael Steele Overcome the Dreaded M-Word?

By: WR Jonas

WR Jonas — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:19:22 +0000

Michael Steele can gain my confidence and millions of conservative ex-Republicans by some results. Some winning people or platforms that generate support, enthusiasm and energy. Rather like Sarah Palin who draws people like a magnet wherever she goes and unlike Colin Powell who could not excite anybody.
The mid terms are a slam dunk for Republicans . There are so many irate and disgusted people who are fed up with this political swamp that they are begging for a real winning slate. If the Republican Party cannot capitalize on the loathing the public has for this administration then all is lost. If the Dems steal the 2010 mid terms the Republic is gone forever.

By: Bilgeman

Bilgeman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:33:55 +0000

Mr. McCain:

“Can Michael Steele Overcome the Dreaded M-Word?”

You mean “Maryland”?

“when they started throwing around nasty slurs like “moderate.””

Oh…THAT “m-word”. Really…same difference.

He’s GOP from Maryland, f’god’s sakes. And even his “moderate” stances couldn’t get him any further than the understudy’s chair in Annapolis.

If anyone should know the futility of appeasing the Left, it should be someone like him.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:20:26 +0000

I’d like some proof that Chairman Steele is a conservative. Its easy to say you are.

Pro-life is good, but not enough. And how ‘pro-life’ is that ‘pro-life’?

Basically, what has he done that has seriously ticked liberals off, and he’s still prevailed?

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:22:08 +0000

Thanks. Haven’t been to Geezerlust, (Just checked out the site: not what I expected.) I have the name, but I’m not the only one.
I’ll be looking for your posts.
This whole column has been a great laugh.
MORE; MORE.

By: McRib

McRib — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:14:34 +0000

Cybergeezer -what a good name. Sometimes I go by Geezerlust. I think geezer anything makes them uncomfortable.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:03:25 +0000

I understand he thinks that there is such as thing as “bad guns”.

Hopefully, he has reconsidered this position. As one of those grassroots conservatives whose views on fiscal responsibility, smaller government, etc have been (and with the notable exception of the first house Republican vote against the TARP bill and Porkulus) and continue to trash republican ideals, I will hold my judgment…and money…for now.

By: David

David — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:18:50 +0000

I expect Chairman Steele has a clear understanding of the job of herding cats. Just because he will drive the conservative agenda does not mean he will drive those afflicted with McCainsian Principle Reconciliation Syndrome out of the party. Snow, Collins, Spector, et. al. are not the enemy. We simply need to overwhelm them a majority of true conservatives.

By: John K.

John K. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:03:45 +0000

Chairman Steele will be a spectacular GOP leader!

By: BERLET98

BERLET98 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:58:23 +0000

One Iconic, One Shameful Moment in Black History

Iconic Moments in American Politics

There are certain, rare iconic moments that occur in the world of American politics, not nearly as many as some would have us believe, but they do happen.

“Moments” and “occasions” are daily events. Therefore, this article will focus only on those Americans who had a profound influence on the course of American history. Rather than looking at what they accomplished, which is for the most part common knowledge, it will focus rather on what the latest iconic moment means.

In the last half-century, one would have to designate as iconic such moments as, in chronological order, the election and assassination of our nation’s first Roman Catholic president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the subsequent rise to power and assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

and Ronald Reagan’s election as our 39th Chief Executive who was elected in 1980.

People are obviously free to dispute that choice of the three most iconic occasions of the last fifty years but my picks do lead up to the most significant event, to date, of the twenty-first century, namely the election, not of Barack Hussein Obama as president, but of the election of Michael Steele as head of the Republican National Committee.

(The shameful moment occurred on Monday.)

Any contention that a new RNC chairman is in any way equivalent to Kennedy’s election and assassination or to MLK’s murder or to Reagan’s successful efforts to reverse what President Carter did to our military, our economy, and our sense of value as a people, misses the point.

Michael Steele represents perhaps the last, best hope to prove …

(Read the rest of this article and details on Black shame at http://genelalor.com/.)

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:53:30 +0000

20. sambo hux:
Make sure you get your homework done before bedtime, sonny.