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Limbaugh Keeps RNC’s Michael Steele in his Place

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Limbaugh wasn’t amused:

“So I am an entertainer and I have 20 million listeners because of my great song and dance routine,” Limbaugh said. “Michael Steele, you are head of the Republican National Committee. You are not head of the Republican party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the Republican National Committee…and when you call them asking for money, they hang up on you…

I’m not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don’t want to be. I would be embarrassed to say that I’m in charge of the Republican Party in a sad-sack state that it’s in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it’s in, I would quit. I might get out the hari-kari knife because I would have presided over a failure that is embarrassing to the Republicans and conservatives who have supported it and invested in it all these years.

No matter, the RNC appointed a man of quality who can lead.  Look how he boldly grovelled stood his ground this afternoon!

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”

“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”

…”He brings a very important message to the American people to wake up and pay attention to what the administration is doing,” Steele said. “Number two, there are those out there who want to look at what he’s saying as incendiary and divisive and ugly. That’s what I was trying to say. It didn’t come out that way. … He does what he does best, which is provoke: He provokes thought, he provokes the left. And they’re clearly the ones who are most excited about him.”

“You be da man” Michael!  If it all wasn’t so sad and pathetic, it would be riotously funny.  Goodbye, GOP.

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  1. From CPAC to the creepy Krohn kid to Joe the Tax-Evading Not-a-Plumber, the Republicans are on a roll.  I hope they don’t ever change.  

  2. Kaine Statement: Steele Apology to Rush Limbaugh Proves the Point:
    Limbaugh is Leading Force behind Republican Party

    Washington, DC – On the same day GOP Chairman Michael Steele apologized to conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh for courageously challenging Limbaugh’s role as leader of the Republican Party calling his show “incendiary” and “ugly,” Governor Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, issued the following statement calling on Republicans in Washington to stop following Rush Limbaugh’s lead:

    “I was briefly encouraged by the courageous comments made my counterpart in the Republican Party over the weekend challenging Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party and referring to his show as ‘incendiary’ and ‘ugly.’ However, Chairman Steele’s reversal this evening and his apology to Limbaugh proves the unfortunate point that Limbaugh is the leading force behind the Republican Party, its politics and its obstruction of President Obama’s agenda in Washington. Just this weekend, Rush Limbaugh repeated his claim that he is rooting for the President to fail. The last time Rush Limbaugh said he wanted the President to fail, virtually every single Republican in Congress followed his lead and voted against the President’s plan to create or save 3.5 million jobs.

    “As Congress works to pass the President’s budget, Republicans need to stop following divisive figures like Rush Limbaugh, stop apologizing to him and put aside the failed politics of the past so we can put our economy back on track, reform our health care system, break our dependence on foreign oil, improve our schools, and lay the foundation for long-term growth in the 21st Century.”

    • from the ever creepy BNCordeiro

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      Limbaugh never claimed to be the head of the Republican Party, he has always put conservative ideology ahead of political party apparatus.

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      Yup, I’m a Rush Baby!  I remember being in the 8th grade or so when his TV show first started and I would stay up late every night to watch.  I devoured his books and while my family & friends would spend their summers outside in the backyard pool… well, I was sitting in from noon to 3 pm listening to Rush Limbaugh.  During school, I’d be Rush redux while in the lunch room.  Yes, who else but a Rush Baby would occasionally wear a suit & tie to a public school?  While Ronald Reagan was my foundation & inspiration, in many ways Rush Limbaugh was my motivation as a wee young conservative proto-Republican.

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      p>Michael J. Fox would be spinning in his grave, if he had one.

      • if kids like him are part of the reason young people are overwhelmingly not Republican.

  4. The paranoid fantasies about Minnesota are beginning to destabilize Republicans:

    [W]e’ve got to stop liberal Democrat comedian Al Franken
    from stealing Norm Coleman’s U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota.

    As you may know, Norm Coleman won re-election on November 4th by 215 votes. But a subsequent recount — tainted with inconsistencies and improperly counted ballots — awarded a temporary 225-vote margin to Franken.

    As I write to you, Franken and his allies are working feverishly to persuade a panel of judges in Minnesota that certain un-counted ballots must remain un-counted… and deny the one-person, one-vote principle which is the very foundation of our democratic process.

    Your immediate financial support of the Coleman for Senate Recount Fund will help us stop this tragic injustice, and I urge you to click here now to help.

    As the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and candidate for the U.S. Senate.  I’m no stranger to the gutter campaign tactics and shady legal maneuverings of the Left Wing. They don’t fight fair, and they’ll stop at nothing to consolidate  the power they crave.

    This outrageous power grab by Al Franken and Harry Reid must not stand. With Norm Coleman in the Senate protecting taxpayers, it would have been much more difficult for Obama and Reid to get the 60 votes they needed to pass their outrageous, pork-laden stimulus package. And with Norm in the Senate protecting workers, it will be much more difficult for the Democrats to pass “Card-Check” legislation that will prevent the right of workers to cast secret ballots in union elections.

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      The court contest so far, while Coleman’s team had the helm, has resulted in several changes to the actual election count, but wiht a shift in favor of Franken instead of Coleman. It seems that part of the Franken strategy is to demonstrate how relatively easy it would be to increase the Franken lead even more … by a couple of hundred votes, perhpas. The other outcome of the Coleman effort has been to throw the entire election into doubt suggesting that it be thrown out. However, this claim seems to be without merit, and the Franken team now has the chance (and responsibility) to demonstrate this.

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      … The plaintiff, Coleman, also claimed in a written statement to the court that since the number of illegal votes cast in this election exceeds the narrow margin of difference between the two candidates (which has Franken as the winner), the election needs to be set aside. However, Coleman has failed to show that any votes were actually cast illegally, or to make any compelling legal argument that this extraordinary request be honored.

    • Dear Rush,

      AB
      an opportunistic brick thrower.
      I’m sorry that I called youugly.
      an idiot.

       

      inarticulate.
      My comments werestupid.
      not even about you.

       

      inspiring.
      What I meant to say is that you are thought-provoking
      worthy of enormous respect.
       
      You and I both know that in reality, you simply want President Obama to fail in this time of economic collapse. How can I disagree with that? Please accept my sincere apologies, oh great leader of the Republican Party.
       
      Can’t wait to be on your show soon! XOXO
       
      Sincerely,
      RNC Chairman Michael Steele
      Congressman Phil Gingrey
      Governor Mark Sanford
      Congressman Eric Cantor

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