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Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics. Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and ...
Michael Steele's Rap Battle Response | March 19th
Michael Steele's Rap Battle Response | March 19th
colbertnation.com — thumbnail Thursday , March 19, 2009 Bill Posey Alligator Rumors Stephen demands a DNA test to determine... whether Congressman Bill Posey is part alligator. (03:17) thumbnail Thursday , March 19, 2009 Michael Steele's Rap Battle Response In accordance ... (more) Michael Steele's Rap Battle Response | March 19th
Steele's Days May be Numbered
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Has Michael Steele's bumbling reached a critical mass that it will cost him the chairmanship of the... RNC -- or will he just keep on bumbling instead? The latest bad news for Steele is a report that certain Republicans may be plotting a coup against ... (more) Steele's Days May be Numbered
Report: More Questions About Steele's Camapign Payments
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Looks like Michael Steele's got more to worry about than his abject surrender to Rush Limbaugh the... other day. The RNC chair is also facing renewed questions about what looks like irregular campaign spending during his thwarted 2006 Senate bid in ... (more) Report: More Questions About Steele's Camapign Payments
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Huckabee blasts 'troubling' Steele remarks
Ben Smith's Blog — Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee added the highest-profile voice yet to the chorus of conservative criticism of RNC Chairman Michael Steele's suggestion that he supports "individual choice" on abortion: Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics. Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life. We have supported a Constitutional amendment to ...

Steele In Serious Hot Water With Social Conservatives
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics." ...

Steele In Serious Hot Water With Social Conservatives
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics." ...

Huckabee Rips Steele
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — In a statement, Mike Huckabee says the recent comments RNC Chairman Michael Steele made about abortion "are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics."

Huckabee: Steele's Abortion Comments "A Violation Of The Most Basic Of Human Rights"
TPM Election Central — Mike Huckabee is also slamming Michael Steele's comments about abortion in the GQ interview, with this post on his leadership PAC's blog: Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics. Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life. We have supported a Constitutional amendment to ...

Ken Blackwell Comes Out With a Long Knife for Michael Steele; Update: Mike Huckabee is troubled by Steele Abortion Comments
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — +++++Update+++++ Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee expresses his disappointment with Michael Steele Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its ...

STOP EATING YOUR OWN
PoliGazette — This is becoming pathetic. Memo to Republicans: STOP EATING YOUR OWN. Mike Huckabee’s on the blog of his “HuckPac“: Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics. Since 1980, our party has been steadfast and principled in believing in the dignity and worth of every human life. We have supported a Constitutional amendment to protect life and the party has taken the ...

Steele's bad day
Political Animal — ... about gay and abortion rights to GQ . * Mike Huckabee : "For Chairman Steele to even infer that taking a life is totally left up to the individual is not only a reversal of Republican policy and principle, but it's a violation of the most basic of human rights -- the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. His statement today helps, but doesn't explain why he would ever say what he did in the first place." * Former Ohio Secretary of State and former RNC rival ...

Dwayne Horner: Huckabee Responds to Michael Steele
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has come out denouncing comments made by GOP Chairman Michael Steele to GQ Magazine. Governor Huckabee's Statement : For reference, Steele said: Huckabee joins Ken Blackwell in being critical of the comments as well. For full disclosure, I know both Gov. Huckabee and Gov. Steele personally and consider them both friends. That being said, I simply cannot understand how someone who is pro-life can make these kind of statements...especially a national figure and the face of the Republican Party. There really is no excuse for an answer to be so simplistic. Hindsight is 20/20, true, but ...

Another flip-flop for Steele - a ‘clarification’ on abortion remarks
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding Tony Perkins on Michael Steele’s statement in an interview in GQ about abortion that it is an individual choice. “I expressed my concerns to the chairman earlier this week about previous statements that were very similar in nature. He assured me as chairman his views did not matter and that he would be upholding and promoting the Party platform, which is very clear on these issues,” Perkins said. “It is very difficult to reconcile the GQ interview with the chairman’s pledge.” Apperently, according to the article, Perkins, who paid former ...

Huckabee's Play?
Riehl World View — ... Or you could simply assume he's doing it based upon principle. That's not something I'm prepared to do after watching him in the primaries. ...

Huckabee attacks Steele
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — It's looking more and more like African-Americans aren't welcome in the big tent unless they're really really conservative. I say this, jokingly, but it's a sign of something far more serious. As former Republicans like me know all too well, the only people welcome in the GOP's big tent are people who shut up and embrace the far right. To wit, here's Huckabee piling on: ...

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Steele's Ex-Rivals Step Up Criticism
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/6/2009 — GOP criticism of Michael Steele is now intensifying, with his former rival for the chairmanship now going on the record in badmouthing his performance. "I have a very different management philosophy and style," said Katon Dawson, the South ...
Michael Steele's Unwarranted, Unprovoked Attack On Ebonics
ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com 2/27/2009 — You'd think I of, all people, would be sympathetic to Michael Steele's effort to bring some slanguage to the GOP. You know how I do--if at least a third of my readers, at any given time, aren't headed to google then I'm doing something wrong. I've got ...