Poor Steele. He has so many Massas to grovel to, I hope he can keep up.
timberagain
· 9 months ago
This part of Huckabee's statement reads like total bullshit: "....the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics." Where are those people gonna go? To the Democratic party or to the left? They're going nowhere. Time for that party to evolve.
BCPipes
· 9 months ago
I wouldn't ask for the Republican party to adapt to the mainstream, even as it pissed me off every time a winger said, "If you want to win elections you've got to be more like us!" I refuse to be a concern troll.
Time for that party to shrink and die.
example
· 9 months ago
They could stay home. Evangelicals didn't used to be a political force. I remember a couple of years ago this crazy christian woman talking about how she didn't vote because all politicians were corrupt and politics in general was sleazy.
lpeggy
· 9 months ago
Believe me, we African-Americans already got the memo.
An_American_Karol
· 9 months ago
I was wondering how long it was going to take Huckabee to rear his fundie head over Steele's less than social conservative sentiments.
Joneses
· 9 months ago
Don't worry, Steele will kiss up. Another black to replace Steele? Afirmative Action anyone? I guess not....... because it's the GOP and they are perrrfect.
Rob Mule
· 9 months ago
Ah, the Dark Squirrel of the Sith speaks...
hauksdottir
· 9 months ago
"...the party has taken the position that no one individual has the supreme right to own another person in totality including the right to take that life. "
Right. Un-huh!
The Republicans have outlawed capital punishment. No man, not even the governor, has the right to take a life.
The Republicans have turned in all their guns, including the assault rifles, bazookas, and 50 caliber pieces. No one, not even a homeowner, gambler, security guard, has the right to take a life.
The Republicans have all sworn off warfare and taken oaths as conciencious objectors to eschew all killing. No people singly or en masse have the right to invade and kill the inhabitants of another land, or to starve them, poison their waters, deny medical care... slow deaths are as forbidden as direct killing.
When Republicans can actually show evidence that they care about the quality of life and work towards peace and liberty, then perhaps we'll listen to them preach. Meanwhile, they can keep their bloody hands off our bodies!
BCPipes
· 9 months ago
I guess if you want to enslave and kill, you have to do it in groups of 2 or more. Strange. The Bible says nothing about this little rule. (Hello Iceland, I presume!)
Judas Peckerwood
· 9 months ago
I think you meant "imply" not "infer" Gov. Huckabilly.
Dr Wright
· 9 months ago
he was never welcome, they just wanted to show the world that they gave African Americans and chance and they could not be worked with. Then they can go back to being exclusive without the guilt
LuZenMyMnd
· 9 months ago
No he was never welcome. But part of it was Steele's own un-doing. He came on the scene acting and sounding like a Sammy Davis Jr., look alike with that "Yeah Ba-bee" stuff. That was FINE in the '60's, but Steele has NO idea of HOW to connect w/people; especially black folks. I listen to him on the Tom Joyner Morning Show and he sounds like a fish out of water. Afterwards, the hosts and listeners call in and ridicule him.
Michael Steele is a cartoon and in the black community he is thought of Rush Limbaugh in black face. He's an embarassment. A pig in lipstick is STEELE a pig.
Plantsmantx
· 9 months ago
You know, it's not as if he had never said anything in the media. I don't see how they ever thought he was a far-right lunatic. If they just wanted that with a black face on it, they would have chosen Blackwell. At this point, I really can't say what their thinking was in picking him.
JackDallasQueer
· 9 months ago
My father warned his fellow GOP members in 1968 that they would eventually wind up destroying the party altogether by allowing Nixon's Southern Strategy of taking Dixiecrats racist white trash and luring them into their little game. ANYTHING to get control back of the government to cut taxes and government spending was worth it back then. So they made this little deal with Southern white trash Baptist Neanderthals and it has them right where they are today...out of touch and out of power. RIP, GOP.
Shonnie
· 9 months ago
We black people don't need a lesson, because we are NOT voting repubican. It is the people John describes in his post on the SC governor who need a "telling lesson". They have voted against their own best interests for years.
timncguy
· 9 months ago
I think your quote from Huckabee must have been missing about three words. He probably said this:
"Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life, UNLESS YOU'RE GAY"
fl79tr
· 9 months ago
We could also add for clarity: "Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life, UNLESS YOU'RE GAY, or currently residing on the outside of a vagina and earning less than 100k a year."
...but who am I to split hairs with Huckster--er--uh--Huckabee...
larry
· 9 months ago
Steele was intra party compromise...moderates for obvious reasons, evangelicals because they wanted to prevent post-segregationist full control who will block the religious rights planned coup in 12. Steele has failed and the post-segregationist knew he would and helped him along the way.....stay tuned...Steele will tossed and the post segregationist who will have been vindicated will take the helm. The GOP will be guided from Columbia, Austin, Montgomery, Jackson.....once the 2010 midterms are over the war will really begin for party control in 2012. Then the fun will be ever so exciting ! exhilarating!
David
· 9 months ago
Since Huckabee is such a strong advocate of life in all forms how does this statement relate to his views on capital punishment and does he believe the GOP should explicitly add to their platform that they oppose capital punishment?
"Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life. We have supported a Constitutional amendment to protect life and the party has taken the position that no one individual has the supreme right to own another person in totality including the right to take that life. "
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"....the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics."
Where are those people gonna go? To the Democratic party or to the left? They're going nowhere.
Time for that party to evolve.
Time for that party to shrink and die.
Right. Un-huh!
The Republicans have outlawed capital punishment. No man, not even the governor, has the right to take a life.
The Republicans have turned in all their guns, including the assault rifles, bazookas, and 50 caliber pieces. No one, not even a homeowner, gambler, security guard, has the right to take a life.
The Republicans have all sworn off warfare and taken oaths as conciencious objectors to eschew all killing. No people singly or en masse have the right to invade and kill the inhabitants of another land, or to starve them, poison their waters, deny medical care... slow deaths are as forbidden as direct killing.
When Republicans can actually show evidence that they care about the quality of life and work towards peace and liberty, then perhaps we'll listen to them preach. Meanwhile, they can keep their bloody hands off our bodies!
Then they can go back to being exclusive without the guilt
Michael Steele is a cartoon and in the black community he is thought of Rush Limbaugh in black face. He's an embarassment. A pig in lipstick is STEELE a pig.
"Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life, UNLESS YOU'RE GAY"
"Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life, UNLESS YOU'RE GAY, or currently residing on the outside of a vagina and earning less than 100k a year."
...but who am I to split hairs with Huckster--er--uh--Huckabee...
"Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life. We have supported a Constitutional amendment to protect life and the party has taken the position that no one individual has the supreme right to own another person in totality including the right to take that life. "