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elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
03/12/09

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AUUUGHHHH!!!

(That's my head asploding, because the "Republicans support limited government SO WTF DO THEY WANT A FEDERAL BAN ON ABORTION/GAY MARRIAGE/ETC FOR????" thing has been eating at me for YEARS. And I do give my Republican friends immense shit for it.)
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Tart of Darkness
03/12/09

@elitza is the liver: They mostly just support limited government when it comes to raking in the dough by corporations who exploit every possible loophole in the regulations that the government tries to impose.
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
03/12/09

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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
03/12/09

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You know, it's hard out there for a token.
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Sister Toldja
03/12/09

@ceejeemcbeegee: Bachelor at Large: LOL!
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Sister Toldja
03/12/09

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He gets what he gets for being the lawn jockey of the Republican Party. He is their old go to boy when they feel the Negroes hate them more than usual, but he fails to deliver results...EVER! Any Black man who was offered this position post-election 08 should have said no because it was quite obvious what they were doing. As Janene Garafalo said, any woman or POC who joins the GOP has Stockholm Syndrome.
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ArtfulSlinger
03/12/09

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I am beyond confused as to how the Republicans have decided to go along with the idiocracy that comes with following the Christian Right. Barack Obama changed the game and they are still thinking like its 1980. I dont have the time to care if others are getting abortions. I have to worry about things like healthcare, money, job security, transit, groceries, salmonella in my peanut butter, dangerous toys, global warming, my car getting stolen, my company folding, my 401K disappearing, paying into SS and never receiving benefits, my bank closing, my rent going up, my bills going up, my credit card companies fucking me over, oh right - THESE ARE A LOT MORE IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US!

These assholes need to get a grip and get real.
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niaray
03/12/09

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Oh please replace him with, Alan Keyes, which should lead to the implosion of the party in 3...2...1.
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Tart of Darkness
03/12/09

@niaray: EXCELLENT suggestion!! How can we make this happen????
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randomnessish
03/12/09

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Remember when what political party you belonged to depended on things like the power of government and fiscal issues, and not so called "moral" issues like abortion and what religion you were?

I hate political parties. I WOULD consider myself Republican, seeing as I would like the government to be thrifty and somewhat laissez faire, but I can't because the party is completely backwards and morally fundamentalist. Haters.
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SomeAuthorGirl
03/12/09

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Steele's pandering is now what I'd consider to be unseemly. He's not long for that position. More's the pity, because the replacement is bound to be an even bigger shit-nosed crazy.
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Schm
03/12/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: Hey, you know who they should pick to re-energize the party? A jowly white guy!
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Lou
03/12/09

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The guy is having the typical confusion between pro-choice vs. anti-choice, which Sarah Palin also seemed to have. In my mind, he is pro-choice, but all for counseling women to choose life. He also said this:

"The strength of the pro-life movement lies in choosing life and sharing the wisdom of that choice with those who face difficult circumstances. They did that for my mother and I am here today because they did."

Unfortunately, the strength of the pro-life movement has been power to police morality and to tell women what to do by passing sneaky legislation and screaming in women's faces at clinics. What he described is something else entirely.
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Schm
03/12/09

@Lou: Well said.

It seems like every time this guy opens his mouth, it shows he's realizing he's maybe not a Republican.
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greengrey
03/12/09

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I wonder how long it's going to take republicans to realize the religious right is BAD for their party, and there's a REASON the religious right is totally disenfranchised, and why no other political party will touch those people.

It's almost comical, watching the religious right tying to grasp onto power and stay relevant. Someone needs to tell them they're not useful.

I wish republicans would like, be republicans. Dump the RR! They're no good for you!
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Scoithniamh
03/12/09

@greengrey: I certainly agree that they're no good for the Republican party, not to mention often totally antithetical to the original Republican stance. But I think that they are useful. Their numbers are large, and they wield a lot of money. In addition, getting tagged with an anti-religion or anti-God stamp is like being tagged with soft on crime. It's really hard to fight your way out of it; there is just enough religious traditionalism amongst all sects of life to make it worth any politician's while to pander a little to God people- well, Christians, mostly (sigh).
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SarahMC
03/12/09

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The Rs got their asses handed to them last year, partly because a lot of Americans woke up to the fact that they're ruled by theocrats. Now they have a new chairperson and what does he do? He (and everyone else!) grovels to the extremists of the party. They say jump he says how high. Unbelievable.
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
03/12/09

@SarahMC: The extremists of the party are the ones who hold the levers of power. He never could've gotten elected Chair of the RNC without their stamp of approval. He'll be either retracting these remarks or explaining how he was "misquoted" or "taken out of context" in a day or so, mark my words. And if not, they'll toss him overboard.
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samethingwedoeverynightpinky
03/12/09

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This whole Michael Steele/Rush Limbaugh/ Crazy Christian Right debacle is making "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," aphorism really confusing.
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Treeless
03/12/09

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I don't like him, or agree with his stances on most things, but even I must admit that Michael Steele is too smart and too principled for this job.
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SarahMC
03/12/09

@Treeless: He's not principled though! Look what he's doing!
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J.D.Regent
03/12/09

@Treeless: nor do i detect an overabundance of smartness.
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
03/12/09

@Treeless: He certainly showed a lot of principle by racing to join the apologize-to-Rush-for-being-"misinterpreted" parade. If, of course, you see political expediency as a grounding principle.
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Treeless
03/12/09

@SarahMC: I'm not saying he's particularly principled, just that he has too many even for this job. It's like he can't stop himself from speaking the truth. And it's funny.
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Schm
03/12/09

@Treeless: I agree, he does appear to be a halfway decent fellow when he's not backtracking. He just doesn't have the level of amoral maliciousness needed for this job.
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whatsername
03/12/09

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Deep in the darkest days of W when questioning foreign policy meant you were a traitor, I thought "shit, the Democrats are never going to ever get their shit straight enough to mount a concerted challenge to the neocons. Then people started asking real questions that demanded real answers, and while politicians will always be politicians, there really is some hope in the world now (I say this as a non-American). The point for the GOP is that do they want to provide real answers to the real questions right about now, or do they want to lose their ideals to factions that have usurped the guts of the party for their own, often non strategic, ends.
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Cicada
03/12/09

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What is amazing about this is that Steele appeared to waffle on both the choice and gay rights issues in this GQ interview, but he has given completely different statements elsewhere.

The guy has proclaimed himself as completely anti-abortion in other interviews, citing his Catholic faith as a reason. WTF?

Maybe this entire GQ interview is an elaborate April Fools prank that got published too early.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
03/12/09

@Cicada: i think he is personally pro-life, doesn't think roe v wade is right, and wants each state to ban abortion
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J.D.Regent
03/12/09

@Cicada: yeah i have to say I don't think it is as easy to read as Megan is making out. The man sure doesn't go out of his way to be clear and make sense.
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samethingwedoeverynightpinky
03/12/09

@J.D.Regent: Yeah. If I were a Republican, I'd probably be more concerned with the fact that my leader couldn't really be coherent and make sense. But then, if I were a republican, it probably wouldn't be because I wanted to be all up in other people's uteri, so who knows how that kind of logic works.
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Cicada
03/12/09

@samethingwedoeverynightpinky: Exactly! You kind of get the idea that he got caught flat-footed by the questions. The other weird part of the interview was when he sort of sounds like he supports civil unions for gays. In a different interview with Mike Gallagher he came out flatly against them.

Maybe the GQ interview was being conducted by a big, burly gay man and Steele was afraid of offending him (which would be fantastic, BTW).
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