Laura Ingraham to Steele: Why didn’t you get angry at Hughley’s “Nazi Germany” crack?
posted at 1:40 pm on March 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
Seven minutes from this morning’s show courtesy of Laura’s producer, Tom Elliott. Say this for the man: Whatever his failings, he sure can dodge a question when he wants to. See also his appearance below on “Today,” dismissing Lauer’s tedious interrogation about Rush and whether he too wants Obama to fail as a “sideshow.” Indeed. Let’s move on.
The “Nazi” bit, which really was his lowest moment on Hughley’s show, is at the beginning, followed by an exchange on why the GOP’s polls are still low (well handled by Steele) and Ingraham pressing him on whether he’s prepared to pull the plug on Collins, Snowe, and Specter. He’s still promising to defer to the state party chairmen, but we’ll see how long that lasts if Specter throws a few more important votes The One’s way.
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Nah, so far he just showed up at their private club.
Everybody got an invitation to the Republican party. I went. Didn’t see too many people like me there. Who’s fault is that?
Our side says use your brains. But you gotta have ‘em to use ‘em.
JiangxiDad on March 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM
I notice that nobody has gone after Steele for tax issues, so presumably he’s paid up.
Jim Treacher on March 4, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Have you seen him trying to join Obama’s cabinet?
That’s the reason.
MadisonConservative on March 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM
The “healing” will never ever end, good night America!
dmann on March 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Hey Rob or anyone… What is a “big tent”?
I can tell you what a Conservative tent based on love of freedoms and individual rights and responsibilities is…
Would you like me to?
Mark Garnett on March 4, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Until it’s clear which way the Republican National Committee is headed, I suggest giving to individual candidates or contribute to SarahPAC.com. I trust Sarah Palin a lot more than those weasels on the RNC.
bw222 on March 4, 2009 at 2:48 PM
“This is why conservatives never progress.”
Thats the whole point. Conservatives have a foundation of principles that are eternal. Its when conservatives “progress”, we get fools like Collins, Snowe and Specter.
Elric66 on March 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Articulate? With the NAZI stuttering, he missed a prime, golden opportunity to lead, teach, and explain the big tent.
Steele is being criticized for failing to knock hanging curveballs out of the park.
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Just like during the primary….we are indeed eating our own. What good does this fight between Steele and Rush do for our country or party? I love Savage and the Savage Nation, but he is not a party leader, nor does he even try to be. We do not all need to believe 100% of the same thing, but we are starting to get to a point where we are turning against people that do not meet our own individual view of what it means to be a conservative. This is sad.
arizonateacher on March 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM
More importantly, what is it doing for Michelle Obama’s children?
MadisonConservative on March 4, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Yes you are, thank God!
John McCain really opened up that big tent and made us a more popular party, didn’t he?
Joe Pyne on March 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM
I have a hard time getting worked up about steele for some reason.
When I think of the guy he replaced who was an absolute empty suite I have to give him a little cred just for getting up off the couch and trying.
The last guy , I honestly can’t remember his name(I think duncan) or face and I don’t want to spend the 15 seconds it takes to google his name. And on top of that it is amazing he did not get reelected as head of the RNC.
The RNC blows, Mark Pryor ran unopposed in 2008 for the senate in Arkansas. Almost any republican would have won that seat, just look at the general election results for president.
kangjie on March 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM
You are dealing with the crowd that refused to vote for McCain last November because the Obama win would be good for their “conservative movement,” after all.
They are experts at cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
funky chicken on March 4, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Na, the Left just tried to accuse him of embezzling campaign funds or something. The usual stuff.
TheBigOldDog on March 4, 2009 at 2:56 PM
funky chicken on March 4, 2009 at 2:56 PM
If I voted for McCain, since I like my nose where it is, does that leave me room to criticize the RNC chair for agreeing with the “NAZI” comment.
Or do I need to “go along” with that program too?
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM
It was the DEMOCRATS’ convention that was very much like a National Socialist rally: the staging was nearly identical to Nuremberg and it was hardly by accident.
The Left is doing what it always does and always will: when they’re pinched for their faults, failings, blasphemies and identified for their evils, they blame the Right for the specific things they’re guilty of.
The entire Demo Convention in Denver was noticably modelled after several rallies by the National Socialists in Germany long ago, and particularly emulated the one held at Nuremberg (giant columns, lighting effects, even the speech involved by Obama).
So they now try to ridicule the Right for what they’re on the record for.
I can’t speak for Steele or even try to but I think that Laura Ingraham is being a bit too cutting about Steele — while the brains, the strategy of the GOP should carry on. Steele is now become the pincushion for to exorcise some on the Right’s bitterness, apparently, which I’m finding disappointing (yet understandable).
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM
“You are dealing with the crowd that refused to vote for McCain last November because the Obama win would be good for their “conservative movement,” after all.”
Well if McCain wouldnt fight to win, why should people vote for him? Oh and I voted only after Sarah Palin came on board. Try holding McCain responsible for his loss.
Elric66 on March 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM
And note that the Left couldn’t make that lie stick. Steele substantiated the financials, the Left’s little dirty lie went “poof.”
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM
He DID THAT? Steele AGREED with that lie?
It’s time to start plastering the internet with the comparative symbols and relating images that the Demos share with the National Socialists (or, the “NAZIS”).
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Most here voted for Sarah Palin. So WTF are you on about?
MadisonConservative on March 4, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I believe in Reagan’s big tent Mark, where Libertarians, Social cons and Fiscal cons were welcome as long as they believed in the three basics-low taxes, small government strong national defense.
As for everybody having an invitation to the Republican party (JiangxiDad ) really? Because we have a Socialist President because many of you refused to vote McCain because he was a Democrat with an R. But we had McCain because you wouldn’t vote for a Mormon (remember when many of you said they weren’t Christian) but voted for Huckabee who’s basically a communist (tuition of illegals/Heath care/etc) so it seems to me that it’s the Conservative wing of the GOP that’s a private club, or should I say prayer group for people who want to feel superior to the country but never want to effect any policy to defend it.
I have an idea. Let’s make a GOP with all social cons from Hot Air’s comments. Then we can sit around a TGI Fridays complaining about how bad things are while Democrats run America into the third world.
Rob Taylor on March 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Who is this guy, “Hughley” or whomever, who made such an irrational remark (that the RNC was somehow like the Nazis or whatever the remark was)? Who is this guy?
Was he even serious? I mean, if the guy was SERIOUS in such a remark, BE GRATEFUL BECAUSE it now opens the issue-door to point out the obvious: the Demos’ similarities with the behaviors by and politics of the National Socialists.
There is an immense amount of information still available from the woeful times but pompous circumstances when they were occuring of the National Socialists (“Nazis”) that is extremely transferrable without any to much effort to the same by the Democrats today. Perhaps the issue should be confronted not by criticising Steele but by exposing the truth. There’s nothing to lose.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:07 PM
I, too voted for Palin on Mac’s ticket.
OmahaConservative on March 4, 2009 at 3:08 PM
If Steele can’t handle the heat it is good that we find it out now before the next election cycle kicks in full time. I want him to either fix it, or show he’s not capable of it now rather than later when we’re in the middle of the election fight.
Mr A on March 4, 2009 at 3:10 PM
I do, too but the concept has become exploited. Many people today define the “big tent” as a loathesome concept, that it means (to them, from what I’ve read) that the GOP “should” accommodate all sorts of ideologies and differences, among which many today counter Conservative ideals, particularly Christian ones (so, thus, the “big tent” idea is often regarded as some sort of code for “loosen one’s values to accommodate that which you do not embrace/support” – like, for example, mostly-liberal-McCain as candidate).
In Reagan’s years, it worked and meant quite a lot — times are different. It no longer functions in the same context that it did with and during Reagan’s years.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:10 PM
That went for many of us (me, for instance, also). I withheld support for McCain and often said as much pending his selection of V.P. candidate. I’d not have voted, not at all, for anyone, had Sarah Palin not been the GOP V.P. nominee.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Let me get this straight.
You are saying we should become like the Democrat party. Why??????
We have then they became the Communist Party without changing their name.
Regan never tried to “expand” (become the second DNC) the party and that worked great. Gingrigh took over the house by moving away from the DNC “contracting” the party and once again it worked.
I always say why vote for a RINO when you can vote for a real Democrat. We don’t need two DNC’s we need at least one conservative RNC.
Steveangell on March 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I wish people would stop associating with political parties. Period. Politics have never solved a problem. Ever. One could say that problems have been solved in the past in spite of politics but that’s the best you can do.
We need a movement of Conservative principles with no party identification whatsoever. In spite of what the MSM would have you believe, there are more conservative principled people in this country than there are liberals. Way more. Party identity divides the people more than the principles in a lot of cases.
Dump party associations. Elect Independents based on their principles and values and we can turn this country around. If not, expect more of the same.
Guardian on March 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM
There are too people here who care what Leftists think.
baldilocks on March 4, 2009 at 3:13 PM
A washed-up comedian. His highlight was probably a 5-episode series on Comedy Central like 10 years ago.
MadisonConservative on March 4, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Anyone for a do-over? Ken Blackwell anyone?
PrincipledPilgrim on March 4, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Well, agreed, but perhaps this is a process for now. “For now” meaning, at this time, this month in this year. Steele makes for a good media spokesperson but I strongly doubt he is responsible for strategy.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:13 PM
This is false.
baldilocks on March 4, 2009 at 3:14 PM
+10
PrincipledPilgrim on March 4, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Nicely said!
The spokesman for the party should put the offensive assertions of interviewers on the defense… and then immediately lead the discussion to the points tha he wants to make. Letting the media or the political opposition (but I repeat myself) define the terms and identify conservatives as fascists continues the dangerous narrative. Steele and other Republicans should stop this nonsense in its tracks.
Steele should repeatedly be emphasizing the various ways that fiscal conservatism offers more future opportunities to the young and a genuine social security to the aged. All conservative Republicans should be on the offense, guiding the message to the points that we want to emphasize and not reacting or responding to Dem talking points.
Conservatism offers the bigger tent when it trumpets liberty, national defense, belief in the principles of the Constitution, and fiscal restraint. Conservatism champions the free market, lower taxes, and responsible regulation. Conservatism recognizes that the money that a person owns or saves is his own to buy, save, invest, or donate to charities. It does not belong to the government. Conservatism treats adults as adults, not as children who do not know how to conduct their own lives. Conservatism is wary of a big federal government’s usurping of states’ powers and bleeding America’s citizens with bureaucracy.
Essentially, that was Rush’s message at CPAC. Steele should have been aware of that message and hammered it home.
onlineanalyst on March 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Rob Taylor on March 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Stop pretending that the conservatives didn’t participate.
The so-called “moderates” that were supposed to vote GOP because they got their McCain, voted for the other guy.
And then , of course their was Parker, Noonan, Frum, Brooks, and Buckley that were too friggin’ STUPID to see Obama for what he is.
Gimme a break.
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Here’s my suggestion: work this out and resolve the arguments NOW and not see them continue on for more unproductive calendar (and media) time, like occured in the last Election cycle.
The Right needs to start exercising more manners, so to speak, and stand up for it’s own. Steele hasn’t betrayed the Right in any way and perhaps we should all just lay off the griping and get with the program, meaning, get together on a dedication to win. Maybe help ourselves out by helping the Party out.
I was REALLY disappointed that Steele AND Cantor would go to such wimpy efforts to produce filmed denigrations of Rush Limbaugh (Steele’s since apologized, which is good, very good), but the point is, the Right has to stop chewing on it’s own legs and focus instead on the real opposition.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Bingo!
And..thanks.
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM
For those of you on the forum that want us Conservatives to just STFU and go away…that is essentially what we have done. I personally no longer contribute to the RNC or the GOP and won’t until they represent me! So, have fun with your moderation and big tentness! Have fun with RINO candidates like John McCain! We won’t bother you in upcoming elections! You won’t have to deal with us, you won’t hear from us, you won’t have our silly little contributions to spend and you won’t have to account for our views. You can merrily go on your way to a happy “everyone is welcome because we don’t stand for anything” party. We won’t intrude. We will just stay home and watch. Good luck!
sabbott on March 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Steele “sure can dodge a question when he wants to.”
So, why didn’t he dodge it when DL Hughley tossed it out there?
hawksruleva on March 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Bravo, Laura
Streecar on March 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM
EXACTLY RIGHT. And stop even so much as entertaining any of these “moderate” (so they say they are) Republicans who blush at the very mention of Conservative-anything.
Let them blush, let them “work across the aisle” and court and spark with Nancy and Obama and Teddy all they want but don’t vote for them. What we’re ailing with on the Right is this Left-drift in efforts to “be nice” and “get along” with people who really want our demise. The Left wants us eradicated, no less. Stop trying to kiss a spitting cobra, it’s not going to return the favor.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM
I’ve ALWAYS enjoyed Ingraham’s opinions, but I think she’s drifting into Susan Estrich territory lately.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:22 PM
On Steele working the crowd for the Big Tent? Aren’t we the party of “make whatever size f’n tent you want”?
hawksruleva on March 4, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Explain this to me like I’m a two year old because I missed the starting point (didn’t view the videos linked with this story, Flash not yet reinstalled, sorry).
So what is the beginning, middle and end of this issue? This comedian, Hughley, says the Republican Convention was “like the Nazis” and Steele (gaaa) AGREED with him about that?
Did THAT happen?
Second, then, did Laura Ingraham then criticise Steele for (gaaa, if so) agreeing with that hideous so-called “joke”?
In which case, Ingraham was right to do that but I guess what I’ve missed is whether or not Steele agreed with such a horrible statement, which is not a joke, by the way, not anything anyone would say as “a joke”.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM
I think we could use a Jubilee party. Jubilee in Hebrew and Christian faiths is a special sabbatical year. Kind of a re-set button on debts. What’s that got to do with politics?
Run a slate of candidates who will re-set the nation’s policies. Elect a field of one-term candidates who pledge to address the serious problems our country faces. They could enact all sorts of things that are currently taboo to the current “I gotta keep my job” guys. Line item veto. Earmark reform. Social security reform. Roll back welfare. Reduce the size of the executive branch.
hawksruleva on March 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM
One downside of the “big tent” expression is that it’s commonly used by film distributors to apply to the few films that are big box office grossers that then “cover” the many more that are earning-failures. Thus, certain films that cover for others are deemed to be “big tent” productions.
Politically, it suggests that the Party, then, could be covering for many more losses, which would not be a good thing to suggest or promote.
Maybe there’s some mysterious desire to go after more “Black people” by the RNC — which I strongly doubt could ever be successful as long as most of them continue to define government as being that which gives them what they want and in ever-increasing quantities and that is, “money” and “free stuff” (educations, housing, entertainment, everything).
So the culture, then, among them is not aligned for most of them to a “small government” and “less government intrusion into individuals’ lives” approach that is the appeal to so many of the rest of us.
I think most Blacks, unfortunately, and growing numbers of Hispanics, want government to take care of them in an intrusive way and anticipate government “protecting” them from just about everything they don’t want to either do or participate in, to contend with or deal with (someone to call, sue, handle a problem for them when a problem arises). That is, actually, descriptive of just about all of the Left, now that I think of it.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Well, it’d certainly be a Jubilee if we could instigate term limits. Term limits in Congress would go great miles to solve and resolve most of our nation’s problems.
Lourdes on March 4, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Fixed.
Nothing conservatives do–except capitulate–will cause the Left to like us and be nice to us. They will use totally illogical rhetorical tactics against us and change them when those tactics no longer fit. And they’ll do it without shame while we say “duh, WTF just happened? How come I’m out of power? Don’t call me racist. Whaaaa!” So why should base our behavior on whether the likes of Rahm Emmanuel is laughing at us or not?
If he is laughing, he doing it because he knows that the notion that the Left can be appeased by anything besides total surrender is flocking idiotic.
baldilocks on March 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Amen Brother!!!!!
thomasaur on March 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Basically, DL Hughley (comedian/CNN host) and ChuckD (rapper/political expert) Hughley said that “you don’t have to look any farther than the Rep. convention. He said it “literally looked like the Nazi Germany, it really did”. Steele said “I agree” but it was BEFORE Hughley got the Nazi bit of his comment out. Pretty much ChuckD and DL were dominating the conversation at that point, and Steele was trying to get a word in.
hawksruleva on March 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I have a bit of a different perspective on the whole Nazi thing. I’m sure many of you won’t agree, but I would like to know what baldilocks thinks.
In Defense Of Michael Steele
Rightwingsparkle on March 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Steele did drop the ball on the Nazi comment.
He should have stood up and ripped his mike off while asking that asshole if he noticed any brownshirts or Waffen SS at the convention.
BacaDog on March 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Andy McCarty, on the interview.
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM
It wasn’t just that you had to vote for him; you had to be thankful for the Maverick deigning to represent the bigoted rubes of the GOP.
Seriously, she’s a McCain hack that would rather blame conservatives for supposedly not showing up and voting than admit her section of the party mammothly f**ked up by nominating that backstabbing loser to begin with.
Of all the anti McCain cons here on Hotair, I’m the only one I know of who definitely didn’t vote for him. To me, it seemed like everyone else was going too. He didn’t lose because conservatives didn’t show up; he lost because he stunk as a candidate.
austinnelly on March 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM
It is ironic that our founding fathers never had the foresight to place term limits within the Constitution. But then, I don’t think they could have foreseen the federal government becoming this large.
eaglescout1998 on March 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Why do women like Coulter, Palin, and baldilocks have to show men what “sack” is?
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Hey RWS!
You said: “What [Hughley] meant [with the Nazi comment] is that we were a sea of white faces.”
Exactly right which I would think, of course, since I said it yesterday here and at Ace’s. :) Hughley believes that whites hate blacks. Ergo happy, cheering white people remind him of genocidal murderers. Pretty simple. Not for Mr. Steele though.
The rest of it, however, I do not agree with because I don’t believe in reaching out on the basis of racial grouping. I don’t believe in playing racial politics.
I was raised in the inner city and live there right now. To what problems are you referring that blacks cannot fix themselves? I’ll grudgingly agree on the speaking thing however.
I also repudiate the notion that the illegal immigration debate became anti-hispanic. It’s a strawman created and glommed onto in order to “win” the argument.
baldilocks on March 4, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Thing is Hughley probably doesn’t know what those are.
baldilocks on March 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM
(oops…forgot the boss)
*manly man runs and hides*
Saltysam on March 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Agreeing that the party he helps lead holds conventions that are similar to Nazi party conventions is such a mind-blowing stupid political position to take that it alone calls for his resignation. Either he believes it, and should therefore change parties, or he doesn’t and just went along with calling his own party members Nazis, because it seemed the easiest think to do at the time. Do we need leaders of that quality?
Fred 2 on March 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Maybe the Nazi thing doesn’t resonate with a black the way it does with a white. If Hugely had said the republican party was all “boys” old Steele would react. African Americans are African Americans first…everything else comes after.
UnEasyRider on March 4, 2009 at 4:58 PM
While in the case of STeele I am inclined to agree, I am not so accepting of the notion Clarence Thomas, Ken Blackwell or Condi Rice see color first.
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Of course he did. But I’m not willing to throw the man under the bus for it. I’ve been in situations where I should have walked out of a room or kicked someone in the balls (and then walked out of the room) because of something they said, also. Hindsight is 20/20.
funky chicken on March 4, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Flush this turd! He’s stinking up the place.
W.E.A.K.
L.A.M.E.
Captain America on March 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Should have asked him:
How many converts to the Republican Party from the Hippy-Hoppy world?
Captain America on March 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I’ve just listened to these two interviews Steele gave, and here is what he’s doing:
QUESTION: “Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail, what do you say to that as the leader of the RP?”
STEELE: “I’m not going to get into that, because I have a message to give to the American people.”
QUESTION: “D.L. Hughley made a statement that he thought the RNC looked like a convention of Nazi’s and you seemed to agree with him. Why didn’t you call him on it?”
STEELE: “I’m not going to deal with what somebody says to me in an interview, I’ve only been on this job for 30 days. I want to move forward with my message.”
TRANSLATION: Steele has no intenion of answering questions. He wants to disseminate his talking points, and nothing more. That may fly with the K Street set, but it won’t fly with me, or the rest of the country! If he thinks he can get away with avoiding questions that may be uncomfortable, or challenging, then he is sadly misguided. No excuse for not doing his homework and not being prepared with intelligent, concise, and well-thought out answers.
Joe Pyne on March 4, 2009 at 6:03 PM
From november
William Amos on March 4, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I don’t think we should either. I do, however, wonder where the articulate Steele I once knew has gone lately.
He needs to get his house in order, form a plan, and come out fighting with a message.
BacaDog on March 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Anyone who starts off saying “my job is…” comes off as defensive and frustrated. We need someone hardcore as RNC Chairman. Think McCaulife and Howard Dean.
RobCon on March 4, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I’m still trying to figure out why some one like DL Hughley is interviewing anyone about anything other than ‘Can you work the swing shift?’
BigWyo on March 4, 2009 at 7:05 PM
No thanks….
BigWyo on March 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM
“Steele is making an effort to reach people who have been cut off from their Republican roots (until the 60s all Blacks were Republicans, especially in the south)and you don’t do that by letting the conversation be about your favorite talk radio guy (mine is Fred now) but by articulating the idea that we are a big tent.”
This is the most ridiculous statement I have ever seen. Blacks were recruited into the Democratic Party as part of the “coalition” Roosevelt put together in the 1930s. Some elements (Catholics, union members, southerners, etc.) deflected. Blacks and Jews never left.
bw222 on March 4, 2009 at 8:01 PM
In other words, the Republicans need to stage manage their color mix for public consumption when the media is watching in the same way that the Democrats do… as when Obama had Muslim women in headscarves removed from sitting behind him in order not to have viewers think he was “too Muslim”, himself.
It’s all smoke and mirrors and playacting to Dems and their accomplices in the MSM, so you need to play the same b.s. game as competently.
That’s all a “Big Tent” means.
Steer the meme in your favor.
profitsbeard on March 4, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I did not leave the Republican Party … they left me.
AZ_Redneck on March 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Steele is not a RINO, but he certainly is a weasel.
Dandapani on March 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Did Steele actually say, “My opinion doesn’t matter”?
Is that what High School teacher Jay Bennish said while getting raked over the coals by KHOW talk show host Peter Boyles for comparing Bush to Hitler in 2006?
Hey Michael, conservatives want you to answer the DAMN questions and play it STRAIGHT.
Geeeeesh. Will this guy ever learn? Very weak.
Barrack on March 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM
The pressure Ingraham put on Steele needs to keep getting applied.
Barrack on March 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM
It is all about numbers. In the recent past 44 million people were without medical insurance. Today an article says that in the last 2 years 87 million were with out insurance.
Yesterday 8 or 9 percent of home owners were behind. Today an article says that 1 in five are in trouble.
I just do not get it.
As hard as I search I can not find a definition of poverty level. I mean this! Can anyone?
Yet POVERTY LEVEL IS USED EVERYWHERE.
If you live in NY city and make 80k or in wyoming and make 20k are you or family in poverty.
Almost everyone in government acknowlege the guidelines for poverty are not valid yet all and any benefits are based on these random figures.
TomLawler on March 4, 2009 at 10:56 PM
That’s funny dude.
Steele sounds whiny and defeatist. Not leadership material. Thanks for trying, Laura.
Johnson on March 5, 2009 at 2:21 AM
it seemed like everyone else was going too. He didn’t lose because conservatives didn’t show up; he lost because he stunk as a candidate.
austinnelly
Seems like a “chicken or the egg” argument. Yes, he stunk as a candidate, knifed Republicans in the back whenever he had the chance and was terrified of being called racist by the Obamedia so he tiptoed around Obama’s history of racism and thuggery. He sucked with a slurping noise. And that’s why lots of conservatives stayed home. Me, I voted for Sarah. I don’t know if that makes you right or wrong or both at the same time…? I just wanted to vent my spleen…again. Thanks for the opening.
SKYFOX on March 5, 2009 at 5:23 AM
Craven squish. Is it too late to call Ken Blackwell?
Angry Dumbo on March 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM
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