Steele Wins RNC Chairmanship
Meet the new chairman of the Republican National Committee: Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, who defeated South Carolina party chairman Katon Dawson by a 91-77 margin on the sixth ballot.
"As a little boy growing up in this town -- this is awesome," Steele said bluntly in accepting his victory.
Steele came six votes shy of the magic number 85 on the fifth ballot, and was able to get over the top after Michigan chairman Saul Anuzis dropped out to make it a clear two-man race. Steele is now the first African-American chairman of the RNC.
The Republicans might have realized just how awful it would have been for the GOP's image if Steele hadn't won. The alternative was Dawson, who until just recently belonged to an all-white country club and has said he got involved in politics as a teenage opponent of busing programs in the 1960s -- not exactly the best face to oppose Barack Obama's agenda. Dawson briefly took the lead on the fourth ballot, and after that the movement to Steele very quickly put him on top.
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Rush Limbaugh: "This was completely about race!"
January 30, 2009 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL -- I'm guess we're not going to see that statement from him any time soon.
January 30, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who is Michael Steele? I hear he pals around with (terrorist) Republicans!
January 30, 2009 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure it's just a coincidence the RNC has a new black friend.
January 30, 2009 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
It'll be interesting see what happens with the RNC in the next couple of years. There is no doubt that he is a skilled communicator, and he will be a force to be reckoned with on the PR side of things. But I guess we'll just have to see how effective he is as an organizer and leader in the fight to win back seats in Congress.
January 30, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I also wonder how much infighting there will be... this was a pretty divided vote, and the other side lined up behind someone who likely was a racist.
I can't help but think that in some small, but not insignificant way, this could be a watershed moment for the R party. I don't expect major changes in policy, but, if this is the beginning of some kind of cleansing process through which the racist side of the R party is diminished and ultimately weeded out, then this is a good thing.
January 30, 2009 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
good thing if you want the republicans to survive as a party. I'd rather see them go the way of the whigs or the afrikaner party, as they rightly and naturally deserve to
then, in my dream world, democrats would be the conservative party and a strong Green party could challenge them from the left.
January 30, 2009 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't care either way, frankly. Progress won't happen via the death of a party. Each party is a reflection of the electorate (more or less), so that's where the progress comes from.
In order to remain in power each party must adapt to the changing political landscape. Like evolution in animals: evolve, or die.
While you wish for the ultimate demise of the R party (and believe me, I feel ya'), what I want is real progress in the thinking of voters. We saw signs of that in this last election, and now the R's are coming to grips with the fact that they need to reshape the party, or go the way of the Whigs.
January 30, 2009 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't wholly agree that parties are mere reflections of popular will. They have a live of their own that can continue on in spite of popular will.
It's sort of a chicken-egg thing...
If the R's were to dwindle away, yes, largely due to popular will, then there would be less repug politicians out there constantly squawking about taxes, immigrants ect, thereby keeping those alive as wedge issues in our political life.
Parties are a mirror and an influencer of voter behavior, methinks.
January 30, 2009 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Influencers, true enough. So, the dininishment of the R party would mean a diminishment in their influence. OK, I could live with that. :-)
January 30, 2009 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you had right the first time. The more likely scenario is the republican party becomes more moderate and progressive as American conservatives do the same.
We have been witness to the end of a very crazy era. I don't know if Steele is the guy to help transition the RNC to something that will survive, but I have no doubt that something better will come out of the half of the country who voted for McCain but would still see us succeed.
That Steele positioned recovery programs as redistribution of wealth doesn't give me much hope that the RNC will change until voters give them the smack down in the 2010 primaries.
January 31, 2009 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just saying I'd be happy with progress, whether that means the R's move to the middle or fail as a party. I still think it will be the former, not the latter.
I also agree that Steele may not be the guy. It is very hard to make significant change this fast. This is cosmetic.
January 31, 2009 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think Steele might actually be the straw that broke the moderate conservative back.
I agree with you that reformation is much more likely (and desirable) than destruction. If all it took was forty years of malfeasance to destroy a party, Reconstruction and Woodrow Wilson would have killed the democrats as assuredly as Fillmore killed the Whigs.
I'll be interested to see which leaders emerge out of this Congress who buck the party line as well as the ones that emerge in the 2010 primaries. Patrick Mara here in DC is a good example of the type of progressive conservative I believe is out there to help with the transition.
As I am I.
January 31, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if current R action regarding the stimulus is any indicator, we may have to wait a while for progressive R's to lead the way. BTW - how would you describe a "progressive conservative"? Some around here would call that an oxymoron, you know.
February 1, 2009 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Some around here would be wrong, as the republican party has a long record of progressive legislation. In fact, the party started from that frame and it has only been the last 28 years or so that they joined the democrats to become the "conservative" half of the corporate-controlled government coin.
You are right that the current "leadership" of the republican party will need to go down in flames before something better can come along to replace them. Voters are now paying attention, so their failure will be writ large across the country. I have no doubts that rank and file republican voters won't continue to accept incompetence as the status quo.
I mentioned Patrick Mara here in DC as an example of a progressive conservative. The new republican representative from New Orleans appears to share those traits. I think I am a progressive conservative. There are many "moderate democrats" who in another age would have been republicans, though no less progressive.
Barack Obama is an example of a progressive conservative. He's not out there huffing and puffing. He is very conservative in his methodology and approach. He sets his sights on realistic goals and then designs an intelligent, sometimes long-term, strategy to get there. Doesn't sound any liberals that I have known in recent years.
February 1, 2009 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
A pragmatic approach would be good regardless of liberal or conservative leanings. I would assert that an almost religious adherence to ideology is what screws things up, whether it be politics, economics, or any other field where schools of belief have formed and calcified. Most people just want government that works, and don't give a damn about the ideology. And, both liberals and conservatives don't want government interfering with our personal lives and choices, whether it be the right to marry a consenting adult of our choosing (be it same sex, or ethnically/racially different), or to have Bible-study social clubs at school.
In your opinion, what would the policies/platform of a new Progressive Republican party look like, as compared to how it is now?
February 1, 2009 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, that is a huge question and one that would take a blog in and of itself to explain.
I think it would be much like what you talked about that most Americans are looking for: renewable energy development, responsible foreign policy, stay out of our personal lives, cradle to grave education, removal of specific religions from the public square (while at the same time being more true to the underlying morality that religion calls for) and much more transparency/accountability for government services in general.
A realistic platform for a progressive GOP would most likely resemble that of the Green Party or Democratic Party, insofar as all parties should want to move the country forward. I am looking for better execution and some creative solutions to reach those goals. I just don't believe we can leave implementation in the hands of a single party and expect the country that comes out the other side to be united behind a single purpose.
We can't take anymore working at cross purposes.
February 2, 2009 7:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree very much. Look forward to reading future posts and comments from you. Cheers.
February 2, 2009 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ditto, DaddyD.
February 2, 2009 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Then again, the TPM link to Steele's deceiving campaign tactics makes me think this guy is as much an a-hole as the rest of 'em. Whatever.
January 30, 2009 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
No way. Haven't you noticed that blacks in the republican party are always trying to show how un-black they are? They want to prove their loyalty.
Steele and Blackwell were the only two candidates who defended Salzman's "Magic Negro" CD. Watch Steele court the hard right much more than the moderate middle.
Besides, the vast majority of voters don't have a clue who chairs the RNC or DNC. It simply doesn't register.
January 30, 2009 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
You might be right. I just hope it sin't that bad. I can still do that - hope - right?
January 30, 2009 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. Any wholesale leftward shift of the American political spectrum (which is out of whack with the rest of the democratic world) is a good thing, even if it means that there is more chance that Republicans start winning again.
It's going to happen eventually anyway. The world is moving on (no pun intended!) and America is going to have to play catch up at some point or else be left behind. Hardline conservatism just doesn't work in this day and age, and the sooner it is relegated to the trash can of history, the better.
January 30, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah there is. All kindsa doubt.
January 30, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
say more
January 30, 2009 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vote was still pretty damn close. I wonder if the infotainment pundits will call it a divided party, or just completely gloss over the fact that 77 people voted for the whites-only country club member, and a swing of a mere eight votes would have changed the result.
January 30, 2009 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Katon would have been fun for us. Oh well.
January 30, 2009 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Crap, I was so rooting for Katon. Oh well.
January 30, 2009 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now they're working on getting a woman as the co-chair. Can't give up on the PUMA vote just yet.
January 30, 2009 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
That can't be right becasue the Republicans are firmly against any sort of affirmative action or tokenism.. (ahem)
January 30, 2009 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
The masses of the GOP won't respect his reign, and further disarray will ensue, but they'll be in a bind as they can't openly slime him like if he were a democrat.
I just don't see how he could be effective as a leader for the repugs, other than having a pretty new face on national TV.
January 30, 2009 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting observation.
January 30, 2009 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michael Steele is a "pretty" new face? Uggghhh. Not with that bullet head!
January 30, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Repugs are such a paint by numbers, "me too" party. Anything to distract from their disastrous policies.
January 30, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Steele lies firmly in the Republican dirty tricks tradition. Remember this episode with falsely claimed endorsements, bogus flyers, and bused-in distributors of the flyers in the 2006 election: Republican ratf***ing tactics ala Maryland?
Despite the clever dirty trick, Steele lost. Maryland voters were not as stupid and credulous as he had hoped. Maybe as RNC Chairman he can continue to underestimate voters' intelligence and thereby maintain the Republican losing streak.
January 30, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I remember that crap. Well, if he resumes the old tactics, this time from the top of the RNC, the fallout would be huge. I can't imagine that he'd resort back to those type of tactics.
Though I'd love to see the continual implosion of the Republican Party, hopefully a slight tack to the center and rationality (instead of crazy-land) will be good for the country.
January 30, 2009 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ooh - there's a Texas Republican up for the co-chair post. There is still hope of some wingnuttery in the leadership team of the RNC after all.
January 30, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of you guys has to put a sock in the Boss
Mitt-Mentum
Daws-Mentum
Josh Marshall - kiss of death
January 30, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Repug heads are exploding all over racist Kentucky. (Remember, this ni**er just beat homeboy Duncan, of Inez.) Next-best thing to Bobby Jindal being the repug nominee in 2012.
I give Rush about half an hour before he starts blaming this on "Democrat (sic) racism."
January 30, 2009 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
It must be nice to know you are nothing but a token negro, and the only reason you got the job is because they want to counter Obama.
Oh yeah, you still suck RNC.
January 30, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, and everyone laughed about how stupid Bush was, assuming he couldn't do too much harm. So, before you discount the 'token negro', just watch out: he and his allies may actually have a plan and the wherewithal to make it work. Too soon to tell, but the R Party ain't going away, and this could be the turning point for them.
January 30, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
what is a racist to do?
Not only will there be backlash but stay tuned for some very awkward comments from republican elected officials around the country. There are probably some county republican party meetings that wouldn't exactly rpllbout the red carpet for him ..
January 30, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Call me cynical, but it just seems a blatant act of shameless opportunism on the part of the GOP to elect a black man Chair of the RNC. A year or two ago, he would have mistakenly been asked to clear away their dinner plates.
January 30, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wha??? Politicians shameless opportunists?!? I can't believe it!
January 30, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lame and ever so irrelevant. Black enough? He's not anything enough except perhaps himself in which case he is way too much. Too funny.
January 30, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funniest thing I ever heard.
A black guy and an Asian guy are sitting in my break room, the black guy, commenting on the Michael Steele victory says, this should have happened about 20 years ago when Jessie Jackson was running for President. The Asian guy said, "Yeah and then Alan Keyes would have been elected RNC Chairman and that's just black on black rhyme"!
January 30, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The freepers are applauding their party's affirmative action today, although they aren't admitting that is what it is.
January 30, 2009 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Divide and conquer baby. The racist wing of the party just went south. What's left? Country clubbers and die hard conservatives, makes up maybe 20 percent of the electorate. Steele is no prize, anyway, he is as crooked as Blagojevich.
January 30, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how quickly they (repubs, msm) are going to gin up a rival between Obama and Steele. And I hope neither one takes the bait. I also wonder if Black Republicans will come out of hiding. I watched a few minutes of Steele's acceptance speech and the camera panned out into a sea of white faces with one black guy standing by the door.
January 30, 2009 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Probably was Blackwell.
January 30, 2009 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
So does this mean that Dawson can rejoin his old country club? That way he can be sure Steele won't be coming 'round to rub his face in it.
January 30, 2009 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol.
January 30, 2009 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
So Michael Steel is promising something completely different? Should we expect senior Republican males to begin speaking in falsetto, and creation of a Ministry of Funny Walks? They might well beware: no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!
January 30, 2009 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the Republican Party's answer to Howard Dean? Michael Steele?? D'oh!!
January 30, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
My very first thought: "Oh f***kin' lame. When they saw Hillary, they picked Palin for their VP candidate, and now they see Obama they choose this guy..."
How predictable Repugs are.
January 30, 2009 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
i look at the news,and i get confuse,a black man joined the ku klux klan?
January 30, 2009 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Republican party doesnt want to be seen as having its white leader of a party thats all white and has a racial element to it, attack the country's first black president with 70% approval ratings.
So what does the Republican party do, they vote in a black man to attack the first black president.
Memo to the Republican Party: Having a black chairman doesnt mean minorities will come flocking to your party. 4 decades of painting minorities, especially blacks, as moochers, lazy, and incompetent wont be erased with the voting of Mr Steele.
Mr Steele wont last the entire 2 yr term.
January 30, 2009 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Their strategem may backfire on them. It might just "embolden the enemy" -- those uppity minorities.
January 30, 2009 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I remember him from when he used to do "Politically Incorrect", before Bush took Bill Maher off the free airwaves.
You know how when you are watching a really brilliant guy, like a brain surgeon or scientist, explain something? You watch that person zero in on something, and you can feel the brilliance in the room? Obama gives you that feeling sometimes.
Michael Steele is the opposite of that.
January 30, 2009 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder. Has anyone from the GOP proclaimed Steele's election as "a mugging" yet?
January 30, 2009 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Less than a month ago republicans were having a chuckle over Rush Limbaugh's racist "Barack the Magic Negro" song.
January 30, 2009 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is Steele supposed to be bizzaro Obama? Does the Republican "Me Too" move smack of desperation, totally lack leadership and seem to be the brainchild of a psychotic grade school pupil?
January 30, 2009 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Six ballots? What a mandate!
January 30, 2009 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
So who's gonna be the RNC's version of Geraldine Ferraro. You know..."Steele is lucky to be a Black Man...he wouldn't be the RNC chair if he wasn't Black"
Or how's about redneck in WV or KY? What's his middle name? Stephen right? "What is Michael Stephen? Is that one of them there double hippie names? "We don't need no hippie named Micheal STEPHEN Steel running the GOP", well at least it's not some "Aye-rab" name like Hussein!!! American has had enough Husseins"
Wait is he wearing a flag pin?? Are we even sure this guy really "loves America"???
Oh, and let's hope he's not married to some "American hating", fist-bumping, Angela Davis militant?
Seriously though, I wish Mr Steele all the luck in the world, him and the 5 other Black Republicans are gonna need it.
January 30, 2009 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's good that the GOP is coming out of the dark ages. Great ya'll got your Black Chairman, but is that supposed to negate the "Magic Negro..." business.
The same questions that were asked after Obama won in regards to race will be asked about Mr Steele and the GOP. The problem for the GOP is that there is just too many racist antedotes (?) to talk about.
January 30, 2009 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seriously though,
No one is completely blameless when it comes to racism against Blacks and other minorities (yes this includes us Dems), but ya gotta admit, the RNC since Nixon has a lot to of reconcilliation to do.
The 13th Amendment was 1865 right? How long did it take before African Americans had full civil rights, over 100 years later. So the "modern" GOP, (not the old Party of Lincoln) has about 40-50 some odd years to make up. Gonna take at least a generation. So hopefully for Republicans, their children or their children's children will have a more inclusive GOP to TRY to admire!
January 30, 2009 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have got a theory. It is the right wing political operatives and the right wing think tank people and News Corporation who run the Republican party not the Representatives, Senators etc. The Representatives and Senators need the political operatives etc. to get elected. Very poor leadership is selected by the political operatives etc to keep the party under the control of the operatives. With Steele the Republican Party is ostensively leaderless leaving control of the party in the hands of the operatives. Palin was selected exactly because she is clueless and this is why Steele was selected. The Washington Post described Steele as a man of "no achievement, no record, no evidence and certainly no command of the issues.' No one supports the Republican Party really except an elite rightwing political class who control the Republican Congress and news organizations. Republican congress people don't work for policies that benefit the nation and then run on the record but rather curry favor with the operatives and the country be damned. I am expecting a Palin/Steele ticket four years from now.
January 30, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Steele is now the first African-American chairman of the RNC."
BFD. He will do exactly what Rush Limbaugh tells him to do, so who cares what color he is?
January 30, 2009 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does anyone else think that Steele looks a little bit like Shock G from Digital Underground?
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/humpty%20hump.jpg
Maybe it's the glasses...
January 30, 2009 11:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny.
-AF
January 31, 2009 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think I'm on to something here. Check this out:
http://www.iceposter.com/thumbs/G253234_b.jpg
Same ears, right? Always wears a hat--to disguise the shiny dome?? Who knew the guy was so fly!
Brilliant strategy on the part of the RNC. Help the party overcome its Fear Of A Mixed Planet, and they peel off a HUGE part of the hip-hop vote.
January 31, 2009 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
R's tried that already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw
February 1, 2009 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch. Sorry about that folks. Forgot how painful it is to watch. Do they make mouthwash for eyes?
February 1, 2009 12:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was repulsed, but I couldn't look away. A touch of PTSD, but I think I'll be alright.
February 1, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
The democrats had a female superhero. The Republicans figured all vaginas were equal, so we got Palin. Now the democratic hero is a black. The Republicans evidently feel that all blacks are equal. So now they have one.
The idea that their greed and stupidity is what sunk them has never occurred to a single member of the RNC.
wonder if he's got a clothing budget. Wonder if Rush has a "Steele the magic negro" song ready to go.
January 31, 2009 2:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Behold the end of the Republican party as we know it. The strategy at hand is going to backfire on them in profound ways which desperation will not allow them to acknowledge presently and when it does...hot damn.
Klu Klux Klan to black and tan. Same as the Democrats.
January 31, 2009 3:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
He is to Obama as Disney's "Black Hole" was to Star Wars.
January 31, 2009 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
We're witnessing the birth of a third or fourth party here. The GOP is going to facture big time. This guy will never represent the hard core racists in the GOP so there's one splinter group. This guy will never represent the hard core party of God folks, so there's another splinter group. True there is some cross over between the two, but not that much anymore. What remains of the official GOP is the party of radical corporatists.
Sadly I predict Dems will ignore all of this. They will continue to lay favors at the feet of radical corporatists just like the GOP and such is our body politic. Meanwhile the other 99% of us would really like to vote for someone to give us good job opportunities, health care, and is it too much to ask for a financial system that's not identical to a rigged card game?
January 31, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Far be it for me to defend Katon Dawson in any way, shape or form. Still...
A powerful argument can be made that Dawson has far more cred with SC's African-American community than Michael Steele with any black constituency anywhere.
Yeah, there's Dawson's whole "got into politics 'cuz of busing thang." And there's the "all-white country club" thang. (Note that SC's Black Legislative Caucaus leader defended him).
But in the (im)plausible deniability dept., the country club's black "guests" policy may have given the perception it was inclusive...Dawson's golfed w/black folks there... Blah...Yak...Blah...Yak.
Dawson did try to get this club to change its charter before his membership became public. He publicly campaigned the change. Publicity stunt? Perhaps, nevertheless a huge risk for a white Republican Southern pol.
He failed. He quit.
I have no clue where the spin ends & truth begins. However, despite these controversies, Dawson's outreach to SC's minority voters has been impressive. He's promoted African-Americans to leadership positions in the state party. He's backed a number of minority candidates too.
Per ABC's The Note, Dawson has recruited the following successful candidates: Nikki Haley, the first Indian-American elected to the SC House of Representatives. Tim Scott, the first African-American elected to the SC since Reconstruction, as well as Glenn McCall, the first African-American to represent SC on the RNC.
In contrast Steele's record is, well, invisible.
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
January 31, 2009 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
To Viva...and others:
The direct line drawn between Steele and Obama (just as between Palin and Obama) has already been drawn, although the comparison should be Kaine/Steele (Palin/Biden).
The most insulting comment I read was written by Ambinder/Atlantic - something about Steele attracting African Americans to the Republican Party - in a couple of years!!!!
The fact that many Black people (I suspect: I don't claim to speak for an entire group) were like everyone else attracted to Obama because of the possibility of new ideas and the complete failure of the Bush administration is evidently lost on Ambinder. We are still a "people apart," as opposed to being a part of a coalition of groups w/connecting interests that now forms the Democratic Party. The complex and varied ways in which African Americans viewed the presidential campaign was reduced to "pride" by media(Jesus: If I saw John Lewis on TV - my congressman - one more time, I was going to SCREAM).
So I'm supposed to be impressed by Steele because he's a "first"???
I don't think so...
Steele feels familiar to me. Kind of like Armstrong and/or Juan Williams: Part snake-oil salesman, inspirational speaker, empty, UGLY suit - (what a disappointment in Juan Williams though) - struggling to be relevant in a Party whose current base/platform is just simply antithetical to most working/middle-class/women's/peoples-of-color/anti-Union/small business-owners interests.
AND...
They have no message. None...
What a mess!
P.S.: "struggling to be relevant" without a healthy critique of the Party (like Colin Powell).
February 1, 2009 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
White, black, or beige, they're all Dittoheads
A Tax Cut Won't Educate Your Child
February 1, 2009 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink