UPDATED: The New Face of the GOP

Filed in National by on January 30, 2009

He won.

By my count, former Maryland Lt. Governor Steele needs five more votes, and Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis (considered to be a moderate) just dropped out, with 20 votes on the last ballot. Anuzis didn’t endorse, but I’m willing to bet Steele will pick up at least 5 votes out of Anuzis’ 20.

Another one for the history books.

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  1. jason330 says:

    He beat the guy who became a Republican because he is a racist.

    That’s progress.

  2. liberalgeek says:

    Insert Hillary Clinton reference here…

    Duck as Truth Teller throws something.

  3. xstryker says:

    Congratulations to incoming GOP Chairman Michael Steele. Here’s hoping he wrests some level of control of his shrinking party from Bush Rush Limbaugh.

  4. jason330 says:

    He could not have won without his promise to suck Limbaugh three times a year.

  5. RSmitty says:

    First order of business: tell Fatbaugh and Shamnity to STFU! Oh, sorry, Steele is far more versed in etiquette than I, so make that, “PLEASE, STFU!”

  6. xstryker says:

    Good point, Jason. This is after all the guy who compared stem cell researchers to Nazi human experimenters.

  7. pandora says:

    Time to re-watch the Bill Maher shows. Steele was a frequent guest.

  8. Truth Teller says:

    liberalgeek—- Just can’t leave my gal alone get over it.

  9. nemski says:

    Okay, you guys almost got me with this one. Next time you steal an article from The Onion, could you mark it as Satire?

  10. anonone says:

    He beat the guy who became a Republican because he is a racist.

    He also beat the “Magic Negro CD” racist.

  11. this reminds of seeing a movie release that is very similar to a competing motion picture companies prior release.

  12. jason330 says:

    Funny quote from kos:

    So yet again, the black man kept Dawson down.

  13. So is HE, The Magic Negro?

  14. cassandra_m says:

    Now that’s a funny question!

    And in thinking about how “Magic Negro” is traditionally used, for this current crop of repubs at least, Steele probably is!

    But putting a guy from a blue state who could only win one office in that blue state (one that really, you win if your party wins the Governorship), who was trounced for Senate all along promising to get more black folks in the Red column seems like a strong bet that the GOP will certainly NOT be doing any work to expand beyond their shrinking base.

  15. MJ says:

    Steele is just as right-wing as the schmucks now running the GOP, he just has a darker complexion. This was just a “look, we got us one, too” by the republicraps. He won’t have any power and will be gone in 2 years when the GOP loses even more seats in Congress.

  16. Unstable Isotope says:

    Is Steele the one who had the false story about people throwing oreos at him?

  17. Von Cracker says:

    LOL!

    It’s like Ted Haggard being the spokesman for a GLBT group!

  18. Truth Teller says:

    A supporter of stem cell research. Compares it to Nazi death camps boy this guy is really a REPUK

  19. Miscreant says:

    “Steele is just as right-wing as the schmucks now running the GOP, he just has a darker complexion.”

    Are you implying Steele is not black enough, not unlike John Brady wasn’t gay enough because of party affiliation?

    Apparently, bigotry knows no boundaries. Many of the posts in this thread are verification of that.

  20. Miscreant says:

    “Is Steele the one who had the false story about people throwing oreos at him?”

    Steele himself actually refuted the story as being grossly exaggerated. He said he only saw a few Oreos rolling around on the ground at his feet. Apparently, the liberals who mocked him were only slightly racist.

  21. cassandra_m says:

    If Steele refuted the story, he did so after changing the details of the original story multiple times and not being able to get any additional witnesses to this so-called event. Remember that the media were right there and not far from him that evening, so lots of folks would have seen it. Steele had to backtrack on it because no one was letting him get his victimhood on via a lie.

  22. liz says:

    Isnt Steele the guy who ran for Gov (?) without ever mentioning he was a repuke? And he is going to take out everyone….where’s Rove and his computer vote switcher in Tenn?

    oh , Rove trying to figure out how to take the 5th without taking the 5th.

  23. cassandra_m says:

    He ran for Senate and lost to Cardin.

    Towards the end of his campaign he was definitely running away from being a Repub. Prretty much as he was falling behind in the polls, he was trying to erase his R identity. He or his supporters had signs made up indicating that Steele was a Dem and for Election Day, Steele’s people hired a busload of folks from Philly to come to MD to distribute flyers. The flyers claimed that Steele had been endorsed by a bunch of MD Democratic leadership when he certainly had not gotten those endorsements.

  24. Miscreant says:

    You sound as if you were on scene, Cassandra. If I recall, a reporter from The Washington Times reported it as Steele being “pelted with Oreos”. Some reporters didn’t see anything, others reported cookies being distributed. Steele neither didn’t report it, but stated it was exaggerated.

    Feel free to revise to your own taste.

    Were you there when Steny Hoyer stated Steele “slavishly supported the Republican Party.”?

  25. washington times? uh-huh, might as well have been Sean hannity

  26. cassandra_m says:

    The Washington Times did no reporting (as in actually asking the folks who were there), just a repeat of the story that Steele’s people were peddling. The Baltimore Sun did do some reporting, via Andrew Green who couldn’t find anyone who saw oreos at the event.

    No reporters, no moderators reported seeing the cookies. Feel free to cite any reporter eyewitness reports of cookies. There are plenty on the real raucousness of the crowd — but none of them include cookie throwing.

    Reports of cookies being thrown came from the Steele came 4 or 5 days after the event.

    And while I was not there, my father was. And very close supporting the organizers If there had been cookies thrown, heads would have been busted and put on a pike at the corner of Cold Spring Lane and Hillen Road.

  27. cassandra_m says:

    I’d forgotten about this one — Steele in his distancing from Republicans mode. .

    Scarlet letter is prescient, I think.

  28. MJ says:

    Miscreant, I could give a shit what color he is. As usual, you totally twist things around to satisfy your warped mind. The GOP is going to run hard to the right to try and win elections and it won’t work. Steele paid himself out of campaign funds when he was running for LG (much like Alan Keyes did when he ran for office in MD and IL and for President). He was a failure as a candidate (when running on his own) and is a wing-nut. He’s window dressing for the GOP to claim they have a big tent. The Party of Lincoln is and will always be the party of racists, whether they’re open about it or not (and Sussex’s very own Sam Wilson will be leading the Klan march).

  29. MJ says:

    Miscreant, the MD GOP is infamous for flooding PG County and Baltimore with flyers on Election Day advising people that they can either vote on another day, that they cannot vote if their rent is overdue (and will be arrested if they try) and cannot vote if they have unpaid bills. And before you get on your high-horse and ask how I know this, I saw the flyers and ripped them down from telephone polls. Also, numerous articles about the practice were published in the Washington Post. Also, the GOP is infamous for hiring homeless people to hold up candidate signs on Election Day and then stiffing them on the money. Yeah, a great party to support.

  30. David says:

    The Republican party has a great new conservative leader who doesn’t think the moderates are stupid. He is someone who can bring the best out of the party. Today is a new beginning for the GOP.

  31. anonone says:

    The Republican party has a great new conservative leader who doesn’t think the moderates are stupid…Today is a new beginning for the GOP.

    No, but he thinks repubs are smart…Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…

  32. cassandra_m says:

    David’s endorsement @31 sounds like one of those tightly controlled and manufactured for maximum happy talk that you get from the Communist Chinese government whenever they announce a new Premier.

  33. Andy says:

    He was most recently Head of GOPAC organized by DE own Pierre S duPont IV Headed after that by Newt Gringrich among others
    http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/coinop_congress/eye_on_newt/GOPAC.html

  34. anon says:

    No reporters, no moderators reported seeing the cookies.

    Well just to be on the safe side, if Steele comes to speak in Delaware, I’m bringing a large glass of milk.

  35. MJ says:

    Anon – you bring the milk and I’ll bring the Chips Ahoy.

  36. nemski says:

    Do you think that Southern White Republicans are going to take marching orders from a black man? That’s laughable.