RNC CHAIRMAN MICHAEL STEELE BETS AGAINST OUR TROOPS, ROOTS FOR FAILUREThe fact is, there are something like 60-100 Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. The vast majority of the people we're fighting had nothing directly to do with it. I don't remember the exact figure, but if you divide the annual cost of the war by the number of AQ fighers, we're probably spending over a billion dollars a year per terrorist.
"Here goes Michael Steele setting policy for the GOP again. The likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham will be interested to hear that the Republican Party position is that we should walk away from the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban without finishing the job. They'd also be interested to hear that the Chairman of the Republican Party thinks we have no business in Afghanistan notwithstanding the fact that we are there because we were attacked by terrorists on 9-11.
...and it would look bad if the GOP, with its old-white-guy image, fired its first black chairman because he wouldn't get in line with what everyone else wanted him to do and say.Steele - like most ranking Repos - would get a free pass if he channeled the spirit of Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer.
“A large portion of those who identify as tea party supporters are also self-identified conservative Republicans, according to a new Gallup survey out Friday.posted by ericb at 4:24 PM on July 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
Sixty-two percent of tea party supporters surveyed over three separate Gallup polls say they are a ‘conservative Republican.’ Another 17 percent say they are ‘moderate/liberal Republican.’
All told, 79 percent of tea party supporters say they are Republicans.
Only 6 percent of the tea party supporters surveyed identify as a ‘pure independent’ while 15 percent said they would likely identify as a ‘liberal,’ ‘moderate’ or ‘conservative’ Democrat.
Asked which party they would likely vote for if the election were held today, 80 percent of tea party supporters said the GOP compared to 15 percent who would favor a Democrat.
‘The Tea Party movement has received considerable news coverage this year, in large part because it appears to represent a new and potentially powerful force on the American political scene,’ wrote Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport in his analysis of the poll.
‘Whether Tea Party supporters are a voting segment that is unique and distinct from the more traditional Republican conservative base, however, appears questionable.’”
In an impassioned and often angry speech from the flag-draped podium, Adkins berated both President Obama and former president George W. Bush, accusing them of turning the country into a welfare state, banishing God from public life, and creating an abysmal school system.
The tea partiers are just making the divide in the GOP way more visible. BTW, not all tea partiers are Republican-many of them consider themselves independentNonetheless, they are still straight-voting GOPers. Normally, when I hear some right-winger armed with the talking points that he's an "independent" or "libertarian," that generally means, "I'm a right-wing Republican voter who doesn't want to be held responsible for the stink of my own party [and I really, really want more tax cuts]."
I think Josh Marshal probably was about right when he said Steele seemed like someone who would just say whatever it was that he thought the other person wanted to hear.Yes, this isn't the first time Steele has done this. He tends to have a keen sense of what his audience will be receptive to and say that to them. While that might have endeared him to voters or RNC members, sometimes when he's being interviewed, he will say something that endears him to the interviewer, such as maintaining that abortion is an individual, private choice, except that this gets broadcast to the rest of the public who has been hearing something different from him.
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