Steve M finds that not every wing nut disagrees with Steele, and that it will take 2/3 of the RNC to dump him. I'm guessing an FBI raid might be the tipping point. Until then the Hill needs pest control.

Oh for g-ds sake Steve you are a cock eyed optimist. Steele has a hundred percent chance of being terminated as fast as they can find the next sacrificial stooge. He was always a placeholder a be I daresay he knew it. My guess is that they will be forced to pay him to go away and looking at his work history I doubt it will be the first time.
Aimai

Oh for g-ds sake Steve you are a cock eyed optimist. Steele has a hundred percent chance of being terminated as fast as they can find the next sacrificial stooge. He was always a placeholder a be I daresay he knew it. My guess is that they will be forced to pay him to go away and looking at his work history I doubt it will be the first time.
Aimai

Now, I'd put his odds at 50-50.

Hmmm. 50 - 50 equals zero, I believe.

My recollection is that Steele engaged in similar have-it-both-ways double-talk about abortion rights when he campaigned for Lt. Governor and Senator in Maryland, which is an overwhelmingly pro-choice state. So this should not surprise anyone.

And it probably doesn't surprise the anti-abortion people that Steve quoted -- they are just pretending to be surprised, much as they pretended to be surprised at Obama's decision on stem cell research and his appointment of Sebelius.

My bad, baby. This is the 'beyond cutting edge Hip Hop GOP' of the future, ya dig?

I hope he can hang on. Steele provides us with some much-needed comic relief. But on the bright side, his replacement might be even funnier.

As I said in that post, these guys picked Steele because they thought what would impress America was his skin color. That's their simple-minded understanding of what happened in November. They also pretend to have a "big tent" (yes, while simultaneously talking about "sticking to core principles," which, obviously, is a contradiction in terms). So they may not rush to get rid of Steele for this set of remarks because they'll think it makes them seem narrow-minded and intolerant. (Of course, they are narrow-minded and intolerant, but they don't want to seem so, and they really think we can be fooled.)

If they do bounce Steele, they have to have another excuse. Losing Kirsten Gillibrand's House seat might be that excuse.

"...I'd put [Steele's] odds at 50-50".

I'd put them at 100%.

Maybe the GOP would have a higher opinion of Steele after the rap battle with Stephen Colbert.

But of course it's the Democratic party that is really intolerant on abortion issues while the Republicans have a big tent, because if you don't pay attention to the details sixteen years ago Bob Casey wasn't allowed to speak at the conention.

As usual, you progressive idiots totally miss the point!

Our position on the right to life is that old, white men should be the arbiters of whether a woman is allowed to abort a living being AND our definitive answer is NO. From our Christian perspective, it is never acceptable to take the life of another - except for the death penalty & wars & assassinations directed by the vice president.

As for the gay issue, we have nothing against people being gay - unless they are homosexual. Obviously, the answer to the gay issue is to have the vice president direct that they be assassinated.

In closing, let me reemphasize that our country needs to adhere to the 'original intent' of the Constitution. Only white, male landowners should be allowed the right to vote. Women should not have the right to vote & blacks should count for 3/5th of a person for census purposes.

"Chairman Steele, as the leader of America's Pro-Life conservative party". . .

Funny, Mr. Blackwell, I thought he was the head of the REPUBLICAN party.

Or has the party of Nixon, Reagan, and er, Lincoln, been hijacked by the snakehandling Know Nothings of the 19th Century? Men- and they are mostly men, more interested, as William Jennings Bryan said, 'more interested in the Rock of Ages than the age of rocks'. . .

I'm absolutely shocked that Ken Blackwell even suggested that Chairman Steele read the Constitution. Didn't these guys flush it all away over the past 8 years and replace it with Mein Kampf?

-And another thing: If Steele is bounced will he be replaced by the RNC candidate who sent out the 'Barak the magic negro' CD?

Here's hoping. . .

Dear Mike Huckabee:

Please learn the difference between "infer" and "imply".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater

"By the 1980s, the increasing influence of the Christian Right on the Republican Party so conflicted with Goldwater's libertarian views that he became a vocal opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the role of religion in public life."

Sigh, I guess "conservatism" will forever more be burdened with the Pope and televangelists thanks to the Irish Catholics of the Nat. Review, George Bush, and Karl Rove.

The Whigs! Hah! Off the CHAIN! Or is that the rails?

I think he has a 95% chance of being gone, not so much for the constant foot-in-mouth disease, but because he seems to think his job is to talk to the media as often as humanly possible instead of handling fund-raising and organization-building like a party chairman is supposed to do. I swear we have seen more of Steele in a month than we saw of Dean in the last 4+ years. And did anyone even know who the prior Republican party chairman was before he decided to run for re-election?

needs to re-read the Bible, the U.S. Constitution,

Is abortion mentioned in either of those? Until the late 1800s, "life" (or perhaps the infusion of the soul) was thought to begin with "quickening", i.e. when the baby started to move in the womb. While that's not relevant to us today, it's likely that Blackwell would have had no one agreeing with him at the time that the Constitution was adopted.

If the Republican Party tries to remain dedicated to outlawing abortion, then it will remain a minority party. That's pretty much the case in California, which has a Republican governor only because the recall process permitted Schwarzenegger to run for governor as a Republican without first winning a Republican primary.

I've always wondered what a Republican version of the Burning Man festival would look like. If it doesn't take place by this Friday though I'm out of the pool. I should have picked next Wednesday.

If the Republican Party tries to remain dedicated to intellectually dishonest anti-tax jackasses like me, then it will remain a minority party.

Fixed.