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Steele to Moderates: Sit Down and Shut up

Posted by POLIMOM in At TMV.
May 3rd, 2009 | Comments

This is hysterical.

La Crosse – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appealed to the political middle Friday to join his party but added that the party itself wouldn’t moderate.

“All you moderates out there, y’all come. I mean, that’s the message,” Steele said at a news conference. “The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front.

“Understand that when you come into someone’s house, you’re not looking to change it. You come in because that’s the place you want to be.”

Shorter Michael Steele: We don’t care if you gag on red meat. You’re a guest here, and that’s what we’re serving. Just sit down, shut up, and be grateful we left you a chair.

There’s something really wrong with this man’s understanding of parties and big tables.

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Added: Nobody would really care, if the result of his idiocy wasn’t likely to contribute to the extinction of something truly important.

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D. E.Rodriguez

Y'all come in to the "Big Tent," Sit down, Shut up, and Eat--even if you are deadly allergic to it...

DaGoat

I'm getting disappointed in Steele. Initially I thought he would be a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy willing to go against the company line at times and push a big tent approach.

He's now implying you can simultaneously have a seat at the table but not have your views seriously considered.

Polimom

DaGoat, I think he's doing more than implying it.

DaGoat

True, Polimom. Remember when you were a kid at Thanksgiving and the younger relatives all had to sit at the kiddie table since there was no room at the adult table? That's the message - "Steele to moderates, come have a seat at the kiddie table".

archangel

"Steele to moderates, come have a seat at the kiddie table"

that's insightful, and more so, reminds of the way the GOP Episcopalians, Evangelicals and Catholic church hierarchy in the US seem to see the 'big tent' also. Sad for all of us. The aborting of ideas before they can even be spoken outside the womb, well, the Shakers tried it, as did the Dunkards, and others. Not many of them around today, sad to say.

I am hoping for a 'new day' in all.

dr.e

DLS

They still don't know what they want to be, or to do. They cannot obviously let the liberal "moderates" ("we should be nicer, big-government-is-okay kinds of folks") hijack the party and try to make it into more openly the other Democratic Party ("Junior Democratic Party" [snicker]), and good riddance to Specter, and may he be followed by more should-be-Dems. But we're still waiting for them to offer a coherent alternative. Right now they're an unmanaged herd when not just muddling along being a clumsy form of Dems Lite. (It doesn't buy the Dems' respect -- we still hear "far right" lies time after time from so many who don't want the Dems to share power or lose it.) Even a finally-more-honest Arlen Specter (actually, who could be simply self-seeking given the Dems' power growth; there may be more Republican defections that are also more opportunistic than "principled" [sic]) could probably lose his next attempt at re-election. Real Dems and libs won't want anything to do with "former" as well as other-nominal or actual Republicans.

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