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Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:40 am ]
Post subject:  Michael Steele and the RNC: Party of the future?
Michael Steele and the RNC have once again showed why Americans voted against the Republican Party in 2008. They are a party of bumblers and hypocrits.

After spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood (love those family values), the GOP followed up by sending out a fake-census-Republican-fund-raising letter that listed for its phone number an 800 sex line.

Recently, these guys have done a pretty good job doing what they do best: using half-truths, disinformation, and outright lies to tear down their opposition and frighten Americans. Since they have no real ideas of their own, this is the usual Republican strategy for victory and is the only way Republicans can get elected in this country. If they ran a race purely on ideas they would lose everytime. The real brilliance is the way they run against the very problems they created after eight years of controlling the White House and six years of controlling Congress.

"Barack Obama has not fixed the mess we created - put us back in charge!"

Sheer tactical genius.

Yet, in spite of their victories on the propaganda front, and the generally weak economy that has so many Republicans gleeful about the next election (a terrorist attack would have been a GOP wetdream, but a weak economy is the next best gift they can hope for), they can't help but show the true depths of their incompetence. They manage to find one black Republican to head up their national committee and now that he has turned out to be a colossal failure, they have to stick with him because they can't be seen as firing, for the first time in their history, the head of the Republican National Committee, especially because he is a black (I love how the GOP has tied itself a noose with its very own version of affirmative action).

Yeah, I want these guys making budgetary decisions, because they have such a proven track record. :roll:
Author:  Crosscheck [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:17 pm ]
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Don't you love it when all the news outlets jump on a juicy story like that then put the correction / followup on page 18B?

Quote:
“The story willfully and erroneously suggests that the expenditure in question was one belonging to the chairman. This was a reimbursement made to a non-committee staffer. The chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable. Good reporting would make that distinction crystal clear. The committee has requested that the monies be returned to the committee and that the story be corrected so that it is accurate.”


Michael Steele is still an ineffective douche though.
Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Michael Steele and the RNC: Party of the future?
Crosscheck wrote:
Don't you love it when all the news outlets jump on a juicy story like that then put the correction / followup on page 18B?

Quote:
“The story willfully and erroneously suggests that the expenditure in question was one belonging to the chairman. This was a reimbursement made to a non-committee staffer. The chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable. Good reporting would make that distinction crystal clear. The committee has requested that the monies be returned to the committee and that the story be corrected so that it is accurate.”


Michael Steele is still an ineffective douche though.

Your unidentified quote is the response of the RNC itself.

The news reports I have read did not get the story wrong or imply that Steele was at the bondage club. They merely showed responses from conservative politicans who feel this is the last straw for the Steele led RNC. It is just another example of Republicans preaching fiscal responsibility, while their chairman spends $17,000 for private planes in February alone, nearly $13,000 for car services, and more than $18,000 to redecorate his office. Steele also has received substantial fees for making speeches, even though that is exactly what the RNC pays him a full-time salary for.

The story is correct, factually and metaphorically.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:36 pm ]
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The reports I read said he was in a bondage club which is untrue.
He is and always has been an ineffectual leader. I think he's out of touch and wasting the inherent enthusiasm which exists on the right at this point.

You're not going to get me to defend him.
Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:45 pm ]
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Crosscheck wrote:
He is and always has been an ineffectual leader. I think he's out of touch and wasting the inherent enthusiasm which exists on the right at this point.

Yet, the Republicans want us to trust their judgment on the economy, but apparently we can't even trust them to pick their own leader. Not a confidence inspiring measure for the November election.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Michael Steele and the RNC: Party of the future?
Godzilla1960 wrote:
Yet, the Republicans want us to trust their judgment on the economy, but apparently we can't even trust them to pick their own leader. Not a confidence inspiring measure for the November election.

He's black.
It was the cool thing to do at the time.

Hey, don't feel bad, even though Republican's stink so bad, Americans think Dems stink worse.
Quote:
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows Americans trust Republicans over Democrats to do a better job handling the economy by a 48% to 45% margin.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... z0jxizCFwY

And we both know it's all about the economy.
Ouch.
Author:  Squanto [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:20 pm ]
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Although the initial reports said it was Steele at the bondage club, all of the reputable reports that I read after the first day were accurate in stating that the line item only appeared on the expense report, and Steele wasn't there.

It's a waste of money to be sure, although I wouldn't be surprised if some Dems had done similar things in the past to be honest.
Author:  Rutledge222 [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:23 pm ]
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Squanto wrote:
Although the initial reports said it was Steele at the bondage club, all of the reputable reports that I read after the first day were accurate in stating that the line item only appeared on the expense report, and Steele wasn't there.

It's a waste of money to be sure, although I wouldn't be surprised if some Dems had done similar things in the past to be honest.



Good Answer :P No Politician is not corrupt. :D
Author:  CriminallyVu1gar [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Michael Steele and the RNC: Party of the future?
I do not like the insinuation that such clubs are amoral.
Author:  Godzilla1960 [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Michael Steele and the RNC: Party of the future?
CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
I do not like the insinuation that such clubs are amoral.

That is where the hypocrisy comes in. Do Democrats go to such clubs? No doubt. The difference is that it is Republicans who run around the country telling people what is or is not moral and how people should rear their children and what god wants people to do. Then they get caught seeking gay sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom or slipping off to South America for some tax-payer sponsored nookie or taking donors to a lesbian bondage club and getting the GOP to foot the bill.

Nothing wrong with the club, just the two-faced cynical way the "party of morals" exploits their supporters like a cheap country preacher fleecing the flock, while at the same time diddling the farmer's daughter.
Author:  slesh [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Michael Steele and the RNC: Party of the future?
Godzilla1960 wrote:
CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
I do not like the insinuation that such clubs are amoral.

That is where the hypocrisy comes in. Do Democrats go to such clubs? No doubt. The difference is that it is Republicans who run around the country telling people what is or is not moral and how people should rear their children and what god wants people to do. Then they get caught seeking gay sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom or slipping off to South America for some tax-payer sponsored nookie or taking donors to a lesbian bondage club and getting the GOP to foot the bill.

Nothing wrong with the club, just the two-faced cynical way the "party of morals" exploits their supporters like a cheap country preacher fleecing the flock, while at the same time diddling the farmer's daughter.

I don't necessarily believe this to be the truth. There are elements withing both parties that hold these beliefs with value, however, it must be made clear that the reason the Republicans control the Heart Land is due to thier ability to formulate a plan based on a successful election, that often includes candidates with these beliefs.

Thats about as far as it goes though, Republicans from Texas, California, New York and several other more centered states actually entertain at these types of places and in some cases on a regular basis. Now I call that a Healthy Candidate, just another form of Health Care to me.
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