William W. Wexler

Based on your most recent comment on this thread I’d say you fit nicely into my definition of the radicalized center/right.

You say,

“This stinking 2 party system isn’t going to work at all if one of the parties is just a bunch of chuckleheads like Boehner, Cantor, Grassley, Ensign, Foxx, etc etc.  I can’t think of a single one of those people that is worth a shit.

They’re almost as bad as the Democrats.”

Maybe my use of the word “radicalized” is not apropos in your case; perhaps disenchanted center/ right would describe you better. What’s next for you? The new and improved Tea Party?

You’re agenda here on truthdig is thinly veiled.

I think the absurdity of Michael Steele reflects the lack of cogent thought in the GOP these days.

They are the party of white people.  It’s just a fact.  Now of course there are exceptions to every rule, but people of color are rare in the GOP, extremely so.  93% in 2000, and probably more now thanks to Bush/Cheney.  I would hazard a guess that non-white GOPERs are likely to be Hispanic Cubans or Pentecostals.  Just guessing.

So why even go through the exercise?  It’s just another one of those American bullshit fairy tales.  We love to tell ourselves fairy tales, maybe if we keep repeating them they’ll become true.  But this one, putting Steele at the top of the RNC, is such a big whopper that I think Goebbels would have excluded it in his famous quote.

I fear for the GOP.  It lacks thinkers, moderates, capitalists.  It’s been taken over by talk show hosts and other crackpots.  This stinking 2 party system isn’t going to work at all if one of the parties is just a bunch of chuckleheads like Boehner, Cantor, Grassley, Ensign, Foxx, etc etc.  I can’t think of a single one of those people that is worth a shit.

They’re almost as bad as the Democrats.

-Wexler

“Really, the GOP put Steele there because they thought it would be effective to have a black face at the top of the party because of Barack Obama. It’s very similar to the pick of Sarah Palin as VP candidate.  Who’s zoomin’ who?  The GOP is definitely not pulling this off, not even a tiny bit.  It’s not because Steele is black, it’s because he’s incompetent, just as Sarah is.  Seriously.  In a nation of 300 million people, what’s wrong with this picture?  Steele and Palin are the best they can come up with?”

Bravo.  As well, one thing that I am shocked has not been suggested is a corollary of what Robinson is saying: the GOP may feel the need to keep Steele BECAUSE he’s black.  After all, he is the most high-profile black person in the party - and if he goes, the GOP will truly look like (and not just act like) the party of white people…

Unbelievable!The reactionary elite has it’s knickers in a twist ‘cause Mike has behaved just like them! You’da thunk that he’d have learned his place by now!

As WWW posted recently..“Seriously.  In a nation of 300 million people, what’s wrong with this picture?  Steele and Palin are the best they can come up with?”

I would totally agree…except I would change the names to OBAMA and BIDEN!!!!

I think that most US voters and intellectuals spend too many emotional and brain energies in trying to convince the american people that capitalism is evil and socialism is good. I think that instead of writting long articles that most people won’t read just tell people in the USA that in capitalism the rich gets richer, and the poor poorers.  And in socialism the rich get poorer, but the poors get richer.  As simple as that, and that’s why we need a socialist system in USA because in USA and in all countries of the world, the rich are a minority, and the poors the majority

Who is kidding who?  Steele did not need any defense.  The
Republicans are so desperate to keep their numbers that each and
every vile mind is hallowed, regardless of color, color has nothing to do
with it. Unless one is a black President!  It is absolutely disgusting that
these malignant personalities are getting the press for their
uncontrolled diseased agenda.  It is vital that Democrats get their
political asses in gear, both individually and collectively, now! Not
tomorrow, but now.  It is an atrocity that their sluggish inertia is
allowing this Republican exhibitionism’s stoking display of inciting the
mob mentality of the conservative minded is being allowed to be
showcased.  It is time to be stopped.  Agitation of each and every
Democratic organization is the beginning key to whipping up the germ
of change.  There simply are not enough third partiers to make change,
but they can certainly churn the troubled waters.  It will take a large
organization like the Democratic Party to actually make a change in
direction.  But their sites need wiped from the shit that has been
covering their eyes for much too long now. We the people simply
cannot let the contemptible Republicans rule this country of ordinary
people.  This is not ‘their’ country.  It is ours.

IT IS TIME TO DUMP BOTH PARTIES. WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE CAPITALIST PARTIES.  ONLY SOCIALIST PARTIES CAN SAVE USA. 

I ONLY GO TO SOCIALIST PARTIES ON WEEKENDS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPSjO_Kqg0

As one of the early supporters of civil rights, a supporter of affirmative action, and a person who supports qualified reparations, I must say I find Mr. Robinson’s “defense” of Steel a little unsettling.

If Mr. Robinson was a short, fat, balding, deceitful, lying, criminal, demagogue, and a dweeb, would he have pointed out the questionable accomplishments, and difficulties faced by Carl Rove, because Carl Rove was a short, fat, balding, deceitful, lying, criminal, demagogue, and a dweeb?

Of course there is no equivalency between being an African American and being a short, fat, balding, deceitful, lying, criminal, demagogue, and a dweeb, but it is the suspect defense that I’m unsettled about.

The allegory is all wrong here. Of course a short, fat, balding, deceitful, lying, criminal, demagogue, and a dweeb, would defend Carl Rove. Never mind.

Shamefully, Mr. Robinson and I are both guilty of wasting time and energy, pounding out, and posting the glaringly obvious.

(No offense to the short, fat, and balding intended. Some of my best freinds are short, fat, and balding.)

Samson

It is amazing since the fairness doctrine how any loonytoon with a bull horn gets on the news.

seems us reasonable folks near the middle are too dull for the new MSM.

Really, the GOP put Steele there because they thought it would be effective to have a black face at the top of the party because of Barack Obama.

It’s very similar to the pick of Sarah Palin as VP candidate. 

Who’s zoomin’ who?  The GOP is definitely not pulling this off, not even a tiny bit.  It’s not because Steele is black, it’s because he’s incompetent, just as Sarah is.

Seriously.  In a nation of 300 million people, what’s wrong with this picture?  Steele and Palin are the best they can come up with?

By Big B, April 9 at 3:36 pm

Thanks for the % breakdowns even as general as they are but for
me it correlates with the msm coverage of each inversely, like
the old school gets maybe 10%, the real wackos get 60% and the
religious wackos get the remaining 30%. Thus, this further
shows the subversiveness of the msm in this country and the
dire need to get that changed by breaking it up somehow or
those that follow the dumbstream media will reverse all and
then composition of those %s to leave 10% for the old school,
30% for the real wackos and 60% for the religious nuts, or
something along that line.

Most of you out there in tv land are missing the point. Poor Mike Steele is desperately trying to save the repug party from the fringe groups that wish to tear it asunder. He finds himself in the unenviable place of speaking for the 60% of the GOP that is actually old school small government, fiscally responsible, america first members of the chamber of commerce. His problem is the 30% of the party that is religious wackos (inherently southern and racist) that want the party to lean even farther to the right in their attempt to take america back to the golden age of white people. The last 10% are made up the true wackos, you know, tea baggers, neo-cons and nazi’s. Mike and his supporters know the awful truth of repug political asperations, without that 40% of the wacko right they stand no chance of ever regaining power. And he must tow the fine line of supporting his base while being neo-conservative enough to suck up to the nut jobs.

Good luck! And yes, his job would be much easier if he was white. It’s just the way many repugs on the fringe right are.

“Must I do everything around here?”

What do you do except offer irresponsible journalism?

Well, maybe in defense of him, but the whole conservative
retinue includes, supposedly, conservatives, ultra-conservatives,
neo-cons, republicans, blue dogs, conservative democrats
neoliberals and the ‘elite’, guess that about says it all.

chefranden wrote:

“The next time you don’t have anything to say, why not just put up a recipe?”

The point is…which you obviously pretend you don’t understand (or is it a case of too much kool-aid?), when Steele or any Republican does anything closely comparable to blowing $425,000 of taxpayer’s money flying Air Force One to Chicago…for a date night with his wife..then we should all be crying/demanding his resignation.  What the Republicans blew for stupid reasons is chump change in comparison what those occupying the WH have spent.  How about that $100 a pound beef served at the WH? How about those $6000 a day vacation houses for 10 days…with an extra $3000 a day for their “special” friends?  How much did taxpayers have to pay for the Secret Service members to accompany them?? We’ll never know.

The next time you don’t have anything to say, why not just put up a recipe?

I think Michael Steele should definitely resign…afterall, he used $425,000 of the American taxpayers money to fly to Chicago to have a Valentines Day date night with his wife.  This was totally inappropriate and insulting to those millions of Americans who are jobless and are barely surviving on unemployment…OOoooopppss, WAIT! SORRY!!  That wasn’t Michael Steele ...that was OBAMA

Gene:

You missed the MOST obvious defense of Michael Steele as GOP Party Chairman:

1) The Party won BIG in NJ, Mass and VA off-year elections, including winning Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
2) If the GOP win big in November, despite all the fuss and feathers, it will be because of Steele’s fundraising and leadership.

Unlike Samson, I realize that Steele IS getting a tougher rap simply for the idiotic reason that he’s Black.  Haven’t you noticed the vehemence of attacks on Obama from the Right almost ALWAYS seem to have a racial component?

Robinson also makes an HILARIOUS point:
“Now, it’s also true that they don’t make margins wide enough to contain Chairman Mike’s transgressions.”

Yet with 1) in the bag and 2) looking good (for the GOPers) that margin will get VERY wide indeed.  Haley Barbour’s success at electing Republicans got him the governorship of Mississippi.

Wow ... so skin color is so important that the Democrat propaganda writers are rushing to defend the Republican party chief who just got caught with a $2000 tab at an S&M club ... as long as the guy has darker skin.

Of course, since the Democrats and Republicans agree on so much, I guess that agreeing on this isn’t a problem.

Never do hear what role he was playing in the club though.  Of course, both the Democrats and Republicans all agree that they are the masters who should be holding the whip and that the citizens are the slaves who are to be chained and whipped and serve as their sex toys on demand.