Steel made everybody LOL on AMJoy!

[MoonRiver]

Joy asked him what he thought of Gillum, and he said well I think he's very "articulate!"

Come on, Mike, just switch parties. You know you want to do it!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I really like Michael Steele and yes, he is in the WRONG party.

[MoonRiver]

2. Some people are just stubborn.

Or maybe he gets more gigs as a Republican.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I like the way they are sort of celebrating Gillum's victory.

We don’t do this enough. It gets people

Fired Up!

[DURHAM D]

4. Here is his wiki entry -

He mentioned yesterday during the funeral that he had studied for the priesthood. I did not know that.

He is anti-choice. They can keep him.

From his wiki entry -

In 1981, Steele received a bachelor's degree in international studies from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore City, Maryland.[12]

After graduating from Hopkins, Steele worked for one year as a high school teacher at Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania, teaching classes in world history and economics.[15] He spent three years preparing for the Catholic priesthood at the Augustinian Friars Seminary at Villanova University,[16] which he left prior to ordination to enter civil service.[17]

In 1991, Steele graduated from Georgetown Law School. He failed the Maryland bar exam, but passed the Pennsylvania exam.[18][19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Steele

[Hekate]

6. Steele is a very interesting character to me. Some months back I caught him on CSPAN...

...talking to a bunch of GOP interns in D.C. That's when I learned he'd been a seminarian. I think he is deeply principled, and deeply conservative. But the Gospel he lives by is rooted in compassion, love, and above all, intelligent self-reflection -- my words, not his.

One of the youngsters asked him something about the GOP and moral authority (mind you, with a straight face). Steele burst out, "OH HELL, NO!" and words to the effect that the GOP had spent decades telling him and everyone else who they could love, how they could love, what was evil, etc etc etc, the whole catalog of their hypocritical moralizing -- "So DON'T TELL ME" -- my gods, the man was passionate.

So we should ask ourselves this: Who better to talk to young Republicans? They sure won't listen to any of us.

[Volaris]

7. As long as he understands that his anti-choice-ness should effect him AND ONLY HIM,

and NOT act as a model for adjustments to Law or National Policy, I kinda don't mind.

As far as I'm concerned it's not different than him deciding that wearing baseball caps in public was immoral...I don't give a fuck what he wants to do with his own head, that's his personal choice (and isnt nice that were the Party that allows for him to make that personal moral choice for himself without any government interference?).
As long as he isn't trying to legislate what I can do with MY HEAD, and understands that his personal view is not the view of the Democratic Party Platform, he's welcome over here as far as I'm concerned.

[DURHAM D]

8. What you describe is anti-abortion (personal decision).

What he supports is anti-choice. It is public policy.

So, no pass for him.

[Volaris]

12. Ahhh. In that case I was confused as to his PUBLIC position, thank you for clarifying,

And you're right...In that case they can keep him.

[MurrayDelph]

9. Apparently Pennsylvania has the easiest bar to pass

A college buddy of mine had a job that required he pass the bar somewhere, and he'd already flunked the California bar. So he took the Pennsylvania bar.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. My understand is the Utah Bar

is the easiest as per what our Neighbor says.

[gibraltar72]

11. He washed out on the molesting children class at seminary.

[Nitram]

5. Inside Michael its a Democrat fighting to get out.

The problem is, I assume, that he wouldn't be special or unusual in the Democratic Party.

[Gothmog]

13. "Gosh, he had a tie on and everything. Damn, a black man in a tie."

Link to tweet