New GOP Chairman Boos GOP. When He’s Not Cheerleading

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New Chairman Boos G.O.P. When He’s Not Cheerleading

By JODI KANTOR
Published: March 7, 2009


None of the guests seemed to be complaining, yet Michael Steele stood at a Fifth Avenue fund-raiser in New York on Wednesday evening and defended his month-old tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee. His glasses had been askew since he pleaded his case on television that morning, and now he threw up his arms in admission.

Yes, some of his problems in the job were “self-inflicted,” he said, “but I do things to get a reaction.”

There is no wondering which things he meant. Since taking office, Mr. Steele has joyfully gone to war with his own party, often live on television.

Most chairmen wave the party flag; Mr. Steele smiles and shreds it. A man of constantly colliding analogies, he compares Republicans to drunks in need of a 12-step program and to the mentally ill. He has insulted Rush Limbaugh and moderate Republican senators alike, and he has promised a “hip-hop makeover” that would attract even “one-armed midgets” to his party.

Mr. Steele is the party’s first African-American chairman, his election a response to a history-making Democratic president. But now his performance is raising questions: Does he have a strategy, or is he simply saying whatever comes to mind? Republican moderates have staked hopes of reform on him, betting that his race and frank style will foster a new image of the party, but is this what they expected?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08steele.html?_r=2&hp

[SmileyRose]

1. Michael Steele is a complete tard.

Between slamming saint Limpboil and telling Hannity on the TeeVee that the stimulus will work as intended, his days are doomed.

He's the perfect head of the RNC - quite possibly insane and not very bright on top of that.

[Ian David]

2. Did the GOP just pick the craziest African-American they could find so that when he failed...

... they could use his failure to justify their party's deeply ingrained and systemic racism?

I'm just surprised Alan Keyes must have turned them down.