"Come on, don't ask me that," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said when presented with the inevitable question about his 2012 intentions and if his political aspirations included running for the White House next time around.
Half-way through his term as chairman of the Republican Party and wrapping up the RNC's annual winter meeting here at a beachside resort in President Obama's home state, Michael Steele clearly sees himself bringing a different style of leadership to a GOP in transition.
"In all honest-to-good seriousness, that is such silly Washington talk. It's just not even on my mind," Steele said about a possible presidential run.
"Let me tell you where my head and heart are," Steele added. "I'm a guy who thought it important to say, 'Put me in coach.' And when I help the party return to a governing majority, a stronger GOP, a party that really understands what it's about and what it believes in and is willing every day to go out there and fight for it."
Why not rule it out completely and keep those Washington tongues from wagging?
"I just did. I don't know how many different ways I can do that," Steele said. "How many different ways can you spell 'no'?"
Bullshit!! This is typical political sidestepping. He doesn't actually say "I will not run." He answers the question in such a way that is supposed to make the listener feel they missed something, or they are ignorant if they feel his answer wasn't definitive. This, to me, is just slimy.
Then there is this...
It is clear that one of the central challenges nationwide for Steele and his party this year will be to harness the significant enthusiasm and activism seen in the tea party movement -- home to much of the anti-incumbent, anti-establishment anger and frustration fueling American politics today.
It will be a very delicate dance for Republican leaders to seek to bring these newly politicized activists into their fold since they resist affiliation with both major political parties.
"It is clear..." Clear to fuckin who?! And where does this assertion originate that the enthusiasm and activism is significant? This 'movement' is only significant among the talking heads, or in the general media when there is nothing else to talk abut. Something like this, this "Tea party movement" is kept alive by the need to fill the 24 hour news cycle.
The author then says they resist political affiliation. Who is he fuckin trying to kid?! Am I biased if I think conservative Republican when I encounter the 'tea party' phrase? I do have to admit that the term that comes to mind even more is 'dumb-fuck'.
"I don't see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation. Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?" Steele is quoted as asking in the piece.
"It's not because of my race, but race is more of a factor than it ordinarily would be -- just as it is for Barack Obama," Steele said in response to a question following up on the Washingtonian piece.
Here Steele also has the balls to equate himself with Obama, and in the same breath plays the martyr.
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