GOP leaders to Steele: BACK OFF!

[Si modo]

What a dumbass....

I disagree. It's non-story. It's not news that politicians have turf wars in DC and it's even less so whenever all the sources about this 'scuffle' in a secret meeting are unnamed. And, the OP is a racist.

It's NOT a non-story. Let the man the RNC put in as the leader do his fucking job. Or do you NOT recall them making Steele kiss Rush's ass soon after he was placed in charge of the RNC?

Who is 'them'?

There are turf wars in DC all the time.

I don't know what was said at a secret meeting reported by unnamed sources. I could have happened it could not have happened and either way it is no surprise at all to me. THAT'S why it's a non-story to me.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

More Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit. The Republicans are more united than ever in kicking Socialist A*S in coming elections. 2010 really could be a great year for Republicans if they don't screw things up. The People don't want this oppressive Socialist agenda being forced on them anymore.

 

[paperview]

More Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit. The Republicans are more united than ever in kicking Socialist A*S in coming elections. 2010 really could be a great year for Republicans if they don't screw things up. The People don't want this oppressive Socialist agenda being forced on them anymore.

It's funny you think a right leaning news website, financed by a Reagan appointee, is "Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit.'


lol.

 

[Oddball]

GOP leaders, in a private meeting last month.....

...as leaked by an anonymous source.....

Me smellum heap bison poo.

 

[EriktheRed]

More Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit. The Republicans are more united than ever in kicking Socialist A*S in coming elections. 2010 really could be a great year for Republicans if they don't screw things up. The People don't want this oppressive Socialist agenda being forced on them anymore.

It's funny you think a right leaning news website, financed by a Reagan appointee, is "Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit.'


lol.

I dunno, I don't think Politico is so much biased towards one side or the other as they are towards sensationalism, just like our mainstream media.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Yea and who was it that leaked the info on this supposed "heated" meeting? This story is complete Bull Chit and anyone with common sense can see that. Just more wishful thinking on the part of the Liberal Media/Democrats. Hopey Changey has managed to unite the Republicans against the Socialists. They may not have been united before but they sure are now.

 

[paperview]

More Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit. The Republicans are more united than ever in kicking Socialist A*S in coming elections. 2010 really could be a great year for Republicans if they don't screw things up. The People don't want this oppressive Socialist agenda being forced on them anymore.

It's funny you think a right leaning news website, financed by a Reagan appointee, is "Liberal Media/Democrat Bull Chit.'


lol.

I dunno, I don't think Politico is so much biased towards one side or the other as they are towards sensationalism, just like our mainstream media.

They do sensationalize, like much of the media, but they lean right, and I've read enough of their stories, and heared enough fawning praise from Rush to know their proclivities.

"Politico is financed by Robert Allbritton, chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications.
Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former Assistant to President Ronald Reagan[3], and currently chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, is president and CEO of Politico."

 

[Care4all]

I think there is evident division among the republican party....and heads are butting....

But at the same time, I actually can understand where boehner is coming from...Steele does not have the position to make policy and offering republican legislative solutions when he is not a legislator or did not consult with the republican legislators before going forward with legislative changes and positions that only they could do....or try to do.

And also, the republicans in office did not like him supporting medicare in the whole hearted way that he did.......

I say, there is division among the family, and i do see Boehner's point that Steele should not go rogue...

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

I got the partisans to show their true colors in this thread

You guys are suckers

And the following parisans suckers have shown just who they really are

Uh, who are Steele's "constituents"?

And are you saying that Steele is that Senator who is "trying to actually do something positive in response to this atrocious health plan from Nancy Pelosi, Reid, and Obama"? If so, you just totally missed the point of this.

so why did you call him a senator? elected by "constiuents?"

And people wonder why no one takes the radical right seriously ......

As if we didn't already know about Erik since he is honest about himself. But nodog always claims to be down the middle...sucker

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Well i already knew this story was bogus but sometimes it's fun to play along.

 

[EriktheRed]

I got the partisans to show their true colors in this thread

You guys are suckers

And the following parisans suckers have shown just who they really are

Uh, who are Steele's "constituents"?

And are you saying that Steele is that Senator who is "trying to actually do something positive in response to this atrocious health plan from Nancy Pelosi, Reid, and Obama"? If so, you just totally missed the point of this.

<snip>

As if we didn't already know about Erik since he is honest about himself. But nodog always claims to be down the middle...sucker

Yes, I am honest about favoring the Dems over the Repubs. What does that have to do with my question to you about your post?

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

See up by my name "Am I serious"

I tend to do things to evoke a response in an effort to find out more about just who a poster is. So you should always ask yourself "Is he serious" when I post. Or ask me, sometimes I will shock you .

 

[pal_of_poor]

So the leadership is mad that ONE senator is trying to actually do something positive in response to this atrocious health plan from Nancy Pelosi, Reid, and Obama?

And the republicans wonder why people give them grief all the time.

Dummies, let Steele do the job his constituants elected him to do and start doing yours.

All unnamed sources in a 'secret' meeting? I give this story zero credibility.

Oh yea, like Steele doesn't actually put his foot in his mouth more often than Joe Biden.

Clearly Steele's appointment was an attempt at putting a token in as chairman. It's like the way they try to put every black person in the front row at the RNC convention.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Here's how full of Chit this story is...I am an anonymous source reporting to you all that this supposed "Heated" Meeting never happened. Why should we believe their "Anonymous Sources" over any other anonymous sources? Anonymous sources are usually code for "We made this chit up now lets hope they buy it." This is not a very credible story in my opinion. This story is just a Liberal Media/Democrat fantasy in the end.

 

[Si modo]

So the leadership is mad that ONE senator is trying to actually do something positive in response to this atrocious health plan from Nancy Pelosi, Reid, and Obama?

And the republicans wonder why people give them grief all the time.

Dummies, let Steele do the job his constituants elected him to do and start doing yours.

All unnamed sources in a 'secret' meeting? I give this story zero credibility.

Oh yea, like Steele doesn't actually put his foot in his mouth more often than Joe Biden.

Clearly Steele's appointment was an attempt at putting a token in as chairman. It's like the way they try to put every black person in the front row at the RNC convention.

Ah, more racist shit.

 

[EriktheRed]

See up by my name "Am I serious"

I tend to do things to evoke a response in an effort to find out more about just who a poster is. So you should always ask yourself "Is he serious" when I post. Or ask me, sometimes I will shock you .

Oh yeah? Then what were you not being "serious" about?

Were you "serious" in calling me a partisan hack because I questioned your knowledge on Micheal Steele's position?



Edit: Ok, I think I get what you were driving at now.

 

[rdean]

Not buying this one. Looks like another bogus Liberal Media/Democrat plant stories. The corrupt Liberal Media in coordination with the Democrats have been planting these kinds of bogus stories for years in an attempt to present an image that the Republicans hate each other and are bitterly divided. This is just old-school politics 101. In reality i think Obama has actually managed to unite the Republicans against his oppressive Socialist policies. I know the Liberal Media/Democrats will continue planting these bogus stories but i don't think too many are buying this kind of stuff anymore. 2010 could be a great year for the Republicans if they don't find a way to screw themselves. This kind of story is just more wishful thinking on the part of the Liberal Media/Democrats.

Republicans hate each other? Who says that?

If anything, Democrats have admired the way the Republicans work together and walk in lockstep. They have party disicpline. Republicans first, country second. They vote as if they were all one race and one religion.

MS simply isn't a welcome Republican. Like Colin Powel. They aren't the white color.

 

[Si modo]

Not buying this one. Looks like another bogus Liberal Media/Democrat plant stories. The corrupt Liberal Media in coordination with the Democrats have been planting these kinds of bogus stories for years in an attempt to present an image that the Republicans hate each other and are bitterly divided. This is just old-school politics 101. In reality i think Obama has actually managed to unite the Republicans against his oppressive Socialist policies. I know the Liberal Media/Democrats will continue planting these bogus stories but i don't think too many are buying this kind of stuff anymore. 2010 could be a great year for the Republicans if they don't find a way to screw themselves. This kind of story is just more wishful thinking on the part of the Liberal Media/Democrats.

Republicans hate each other? Who says that?

If anything, Democrats have admired the way the Republicans work together and walk in lockstep. They have party disicpline. Republicans first, country second. They vote as if they were all one race and one religion.

MS simply isn't a welcome Republican. Like Colin Powel. They aren't the white color.

As I always say - we must keep free speech as unrestricted as possible. This way vile racists can expose themselves. That's three so far in this thread.

 

[EriktheRed]

Here's how full of Chit this story is...I am an anonymous source reporting to you all that this supposed "Heated" Meeting never happened. Why should we believe their "Anonymous Sources" over any other anonymous sources? Anonymous sources are usually code for "We made this chit up now lets hope they buy it." This is not a very credible story in my opinion. This story is just a Liberal Media/Democrat fantasy in the end.

Something tells me you'd have no problem hawking a similarly-sourced story regarding Dems.

 

[paperview]

...

MS simply isn't a welcome Republican. Like Colin Powel. They aren't the white color.

I think one of the more illuminating insights I've ever seen on why there are not more black republicans is this letter I read, back in 2003.

It's from Shannon Reeves. He was Secretary of the California Republican Party and was the highest-ranking African-American Party official elected in the State.

He wrote this open letter to his party. Open Letter to the Board of the California Republican Party
By Shannon Reeves Thursday, January 09, 2003
To: Members of the Board of Directors of the California Republican Party

Dear Colleagues: As many of us have learned in recent media reports, Vice Chairman Bill Back distributed an article entitled, ''What if the South had Won the Civil War?'' -- an article that concludes that problems with race relations in America are the result of slaves being freed through Reconstruction, and black migration out of the south as a result of desegregation. This article trivialized slavery and it trivialized the impacts of slavery on my ancestors and people of African decent. The notion that this country would be better off if my ancestors had remained enslaved, and considered less than whole people, is personally offensive, abhorrent, and vile.

It is particularly offensive because my own party's vice chairman distributed this bigoted propaganda in an official CRP newsletter.

Those of us in leadership positions have a responsibility to teach, raise awareness, and encourage thoughtful debate. We also have a responsibility to do so in an honest and ethical manner. Had distribution of the article in question been prefaced by a disclaimer that the editors didn't necessarily agree with the author's views, however, and felt the article had value for the debate it might create on federalism, I might have accepted the vice chairman's position in his January 4 statement that his ''newsletter is a forum for varying political discussion.'' As reported in the same day's Contra Costa Times, when asked several different times if he was offended by the article, Bill Back sidestepped the question and refused to answer. The lack of any such disclaimer or direct and honest response to the reporter can only lead me to one conclusion that Bill Back is sympathetic to the author's views. Why else would he distribute an obscure article that has absolutely no relevance to California, nor to Republican politics in his official California Republican Party newsletter?

I am sick and tired of being embarrassed by elected Republican officials who have no sensitivity for issues that alienate whole segments of our population. Republican leaders who consort with the Council of Conservative Citizens, highlight stump speeches at Bob Jones University, reminisce about segregationist campaigns, and sympathize with the bigoted views - and the very real possibility that others in our party affiliate with the Free Congress Foundation and groups with similar offensive ideology - perpetuate broad public opinion that Republicans harbor racist and bigoted ideals. Bill Back's conduct is the most current embarrassment to our party. His decision to distribute bigoted information demonstrates a lack of judgment and political acumen that's not appropriate for someone in a leadership position, especially as vice chairman of the California Republican Party.
This embarrassment is different for a black Republican.

Not only do I have to sit in rooms and behave professionally towards Republicans who share this heinous ideology, I have to go home to a hostile environment where I'm called an ''Uncle Tom'' and maligned as a sell-out to my community because I'm a member of the Republican Party.

When I go to the barbershop on Friday or my church on Sunday--wherever I go in the black community--I have to explain that Trent Lott's affiliation with the Council of Conservative Citizens doesn't represent all Republicans, that it was just an isolated incident. When they then question me about the scores of Republicans who visit Bob Jones University, I tell them that Republicans visit black universities, too.

When they ask how I can serve in a party where the second in command, the man seeking our top spot distributes bigoted literature, I tell them that Bill Back doesn't represent the grassroots of this party--he's just one man. Black Republicans are expected to provide window dressing and cover to prove that this is not a racist party, yet our own leadership continues to act otherwise.

People judge people by their experience of them, and by their actions, and when those actions do not match their words, actions become the more honest means by which to measure a person.

I don't talk about what it's like for me to be a black Republican, and what I live through day to day because I've made a choice to be true to and fight for my beliefs. But I think the time has come for those of you in this party to understand what I encounter from other Republicans.

Maybe it will help you understand how hard this fight really is--and how insurmountable the ill-conceived actions of Republican leaders like Bill Back make it.

When I travel to speak at Republican conferences and events around the country, wandering through hotels, convention centers and social clubs, as I approach the rooms where I'm scheduled to speak, I am often told by Republicans that I must be in the wrong place.

>>>While boarding a shuttle bus to a national convention a few years ago, an attendee who was already on the bus introduced himself to another white guest who was boarding, took one look at me and, in an attempt to be helpful, told me I was on the wrong bus.
As a Bush delegate at the 2000 convention in Philadelphia, I proudly wore my delegate's badge and RNC lapel pin as I worked the convention.

Regardless of the fact that I was obviously a delegate prominently displaying my credentials, no less than six times did white delegates dismissively tell me to fetch them a taxi or carry their luggage.

Imagine how our Republican women would have felt if they had been mistaken for hotel maids. These people didn't see that I wasn't wearing a uniform; all they saw was a black face and they made an assumption. I am a proud Republican, one who has traveled this great country from Harlem to Honolulu to promote the Republican message. I've campaigned from Inyo to Siskiyou.

Wherever I've been asked to go, I've shown up for this party, speaking to literally thousands of groups. And through it all, I've met thousands upon thousands of grassroots volunteers who have welcomed me, given me good advice, prayers, love, and support. ..."

It's archived now, but the Freepers have a copy posted of the letter: Open Letter to the Board of the California Republican Party

Certainly plenty of republicans do not feel this way about Steele; still one wonders why there are not more black republicans.
For some reason, I recalled Shannon Reeves when I read this story.