I guess according to Steele, some Americans still don't deserve civil rights. How ironic.

Just keep putting a microphone in front of that guy's face.

And to think people thought electing Obama would put comedians like Stewart and Colbert out of business. Republicans not only don't believe in evolution. They downright defy it.

One armed gay midgets are out then?
Whoever would have guessed that one armed straight midgets were such a desirable demographic? Not that I have anything against one armed midgets, straight or gay. I just don't think they're going to be enough to help the repubs with their image problems.

It is a measure of how out of touch Steele is that he would reference anyone by the term midget.

Steele's some kind of genius. Homophobia is guaranteed to get you in good with the younger generation. Next on the agenda: criminalizing premarital sex.

Just keep putting a microphone in front of that guy's face.
Amen.

"Not that I have anything against one armed midgets, straight or gay. I just don't think they're going to be enough to help the repubs with their image problems."

Sshhhhh. Keep it down. If the Retaliban wants to spend considerable time/money recruiting what I can only guess to be less than .0001% (?) of the population, let's not discourage them.

Steele also might want to check out another "core, founding value" of this country written into the Constitution. It involves the diminishment of his vote, cast by someone else on his behalf.

including one-armed midgets

Why do I get the impression that Steele just lost the disabled little-people demographic with the comment?

Log Cabin Republicans, wouldn't it be simpler to just beat yourself senseless with a cat o' nine tails every night? (Not that I'm judging anyone if he or she is into that; just making a point.)

Will the outreach toward one-armed midgets depend on whether the arm is a left or a right?

Actually, this makes perfect sense. The repubs don't like bisexuals, they don't do bipartisanship, and now they reject bilateralism.

There will be no outreach, however, for midgets without any arms. The repubs won't risk offending the NRA.

Steele is the gift that keeps on giving, the gaffe that keeps on gaffing, the goof that keeps on goofing!
Two more microphones for my man, and his own cable channel!

Very important: Steele isn't simply saying Republicans won't support full marriage rights for gay couples, which position could at least be defended on the basis of preserving a sort of cultural copyright to "marriage" as a concept, and the religious trappings etc. He said, they aren't even supportive of civil unions. Civil unions are effectively "designed" to permit pragmatic relations between gay couples under legal rights, but still attempt to placate social conservatives by avoiding the term (and perhaps non-technical "trappings") of "marriage." There is little excuse to be against CUs, and for Steels to ridicule the idea of CUs - with the "what are you, crazy?" type talk - shows he is a crank. He is on the cutting edge of the 1800s perhaps. For today's Republican Party, I guess that is "cutting edge".
(PS: I dig the term "Retaliban" per palinoscopy, tho' it's been around per Google ...)

Not a big fan of Sean Penn, but to borrow his phrase, Steele's grandchildren are going to be ashamed of him.

God, I'm almost beginning to feel sorry for the Republicans.

Civil unions? Poochie don't play dat.

He's totally in my face! To the extreme!!

Oh, and please, Dude - the correct nomenclature is "Little People".

Steele's comments are wrong on so many levels. It is sad, really. Pathetic.

Loosey-goosey? Who talks like that?

I don't know what he's in, but it's not *my* face.

Opposition to civil unions is a founding value of this country? I must have missed that volume of the Federalist Papers.

Civil unions? Poochie don't play dat.

He's totally in my face! To the extreme!!

LOL. That nickname is perfect.

That is some dull Steele.

James Watt in black face could not have outdone him, when describing his Cabinet employees.

Steele couldn't have been a better pick to head up the Republican Party had the Democrats been able to make the selection. I wonder what the town of Oblivion is like. The Republicans seem to be on the road to visiting it.

One-armed midget is Steele's favorite sexual position.

This confirms the flaw in the recent NY Times OpEd. The right is as opposed to civil unions as they are to gay marriage.

http://www.tips-q.com/content/ny-times-oped-response-separate-and-unequal

In politics, beyond the cutting edge is the abyss. It is politics 101. If you are right, you may become a hero in the history books; in your life, if you are lucky, you are only figuratively burned at the stake. Mr. Steele is beyond himself and beside himself. Like Mr. Button, his view of the trend of history is backasswards.

LOL. That nickname is perfect. -Allan Snyder

Commenter Jon B. deserves the credit. :)

Neil B.

Aside from the cosmetics there is an enormous legal difference; Full Faith and Credit. That remains even if DOMA dies.

Nevertheless, Dosbon, Perkins and Wildmon won't stand for civil unions and they seem to control the GOP at the moment.

That rustling sound you hear is Barry Goldwater rolling over in his grave. They would be calling him a godless, commie, liberal, pro-homosexual, pro-child-killing agent of the devil.

Personally I prefer the term "gravitationally enhanced", but I defer to individual preferences on the subject.

Beyond cutting edge: Marriage is between a man and a woman and the little lady stays home and does the cooking and cleaning.

Personally I prefer the term "gravitationally enhanced"

Vertically challenged? Speaking as someone a tad horizontally challeneged himself . . .

Sorry, LCRs. Still no room in the tent, but please do your jobs and continue to shovel the elephant manure as per our ongoing contract.

-best (well, not really)
Poochie