First of all, we don't "roll" in the Northeast. Second we don't wear our hats "assbackwards" or talk out of the side of our mouths, as he does. Forever, Steele has a problem with confusion, as does his party of teabaggers.

And back in 2004, when it looked like the idiots had really taken over, and the GOP was talking about a permanent majority, he had a really, really fake white accent, the kind the late, great Richard Pryor used to do in his standup act. He'd show up on Bill Maher's show and I'd be like, "he's got to be kidding. A fake white accent? Does he actually believe it's not obvious?" Apparently not.

As a native New England Yankee, I can safely say, we don't take kindly to folks from as Far south as Maryland claiming to be from the Northeast... especially goons like Steelt

This is another of Steele's attempts to frame an issue. In this case the issue is the image and the viability of the Republican party.

He could just as well be saying, "Imagine the Republican party as a gigantic golden chariot, waiting to take Americans to the promised land."

And, I would reply, "Imagine the Republican party as a star, a very old and not very bright star--one that is dying and just about to implode."

Anyone can frame. It's fun.

My spider-sense keeps telling me that this cannot be real. Somewhere, in a secret fortress, the League of Extraordinary Republican Gentlemen (and a token woman or two), are crafting a brilliant strategy to retake power in D.C., and they are using Steele as their useful idiot to act as a diversion. He will lower expectations for the Republican party far lower than what even Bush was able to achieve, and then, when Democrats are lulled into thinking that Republicans are no longer a threat to freedom, they will strike.

He often sounds like a middle-aged man attempting to talk to his kids and sound cool, and not exactly being successful at it.

Now THAT gets the understatement of the year award. It's like saying:

"George W. Bush often sounded like a middle-aged man, trying to talk to the American people and sound like a president, and not exactly being successful at it."

What a buffoon.

I take Steel more seriously than most of you. His phrasing might not be great, but he is basically right: his party is uncompetitive in large parts of the country. I blow off this "regional party" nonsense since there's clearly a functional part in every state, but Steele is trying to say they don't compete in cities and suburbs. He's right about cities, where Republicans really have become a fringe. They're quite competitive in suburbs, but they used to dominate and the trend is Democratic.

The important point is that for all the goofiness, for all the lack of solutions, Steele has essentially diagnosed the problem which puts him ahead of most Republicans. Most Republicans are almost proud of having no connection to urban areas, but Steele gets that they can't keep writing off big chunks of the country.

If this sounds familiar, it's exactly the message Howard Dean had for Democrats: there were areas Democrats didn't compete for, and that refusal doomed Democrats to losing elections. Dean was proved right, and let's hope Steel can't replicate the 50-state strategy.

First the GOP got a woman like Palin to try and out do Hillary, except Palin represents nothing that Hillary represents and now they got an African American to try and make them look cool and change their southern white image.....but sadly it's kinda like marketing Kentucky Fried Chicken as organic health food. The harder they try, the more stupid they look. But by all means,....keep trying! The longer they try and pretend that elections don't have consequences and that their image has more to do with their positions on war, climate change, healthcare, and the economy... the longer they will become irrelevant.

Wearing the GOP hat backwards would be appropriate, because that's where he is taking them!