Hey, ain't nobody perfect.

For another, Steele has said, repeatedly, that he's offended by attempts to play the "race card." Is that no longer operative?

The word "retard" comes to mind. And I can say that only because Rush Limbaugh approves.

Leave it to the party of old white bigots to hire a token black man who's completely incompetent.

Man, this is fun stuff! It just gets better and better every day.

Some will recall the tagline -- "Diana Ross IS Billie Holiday" -- from the 1970s movie, Lady Sings the Blues.

Michael Steele IS the race card.

"It's unclear exactly who Steele is accusing of racism."

The media, or his 'Republican colleagues'?

Wrong, and wrong: It's Obama; half white, foreign born, and jealous as hell of a REAL African-American. . .

Shorter Michael Steele: Pay attention to meeeee!

I am going to be as restrained as I can be... but this is the most mindless, ignorant, uninformed, comment that we have seen from Michael Steele so far and there's been a lot of competition for that prize."

If Michael Steele didn't exist, the DNC would have to invent him.

Steele could be green with pink polka dots and he'd still be the same dim-witted clown he is. I'm surprised that he's even aware that he "sometimes" needs "checking"...

Does Tim Kaine do anything? Not just anything newsworthy, but anything at all?

I completely understand why the GOP hates Affirmative Action.

They are terrible at it.

Palin = Hillary
Steele = Obama

Any wonder why they think minorities just aren't qualified.

Jamobey, @ 14:37,

My guess would be that he spends a lot of time improving his harmonica playing in hopes of getting a job with a bluegrass group soon. I don't much like Warner as my Senator but, at least, he had been a good Governor and as full of energy as could get. Kaine... Waste of skin. I really don't know what Obama et al could have been thinking of, when they replaced Dean (Dean!) with this nothing.

Steele has apparently forgotten that, at this point in Howard Dean's tenure as DNC chair, every mention of his name was an opportunity for the cable shows to replay the "Dean scream" video. But then Dean helped engineer back-to-back electoral victories for his party. If Steele accomplishes the same for his party, everyone will forget all the stupid things he's done.

Talk of his ouster has been quite common, especially after Democrats went five-for-five in winning congressional special elections in 2009.
Interesting how talk of those special elections wasn't seen as any big deal, but as soon as Republicans win a few - all hell breaks loose that it means some big Move by an angry public is afoot. Interesting, isn't it?

Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman

It's good that you provide a forum where Mr. Steele can come to read and answer to his plaint:

It is because an idiot is chairman--an idiot who can't shut up.

Just because you're black doesn't mean we can't call you an idiot - and Mr. Steele, you're an idiot.

Rule #137, The Matthews Gambit - Say incredibly stupid things. Then accuse the media of being soft on your opponent. As a result the media will rightly be afraid to press you on anything, and will trash your opponent, even if they have to fabricate a story.

If Steele's mother put him check when he was a boy, my question is who's his mama now?

What the hell is going on with the superfluous use of the word 'retard' lately? I've seen it all day in blog comments, and even heard Stephanie Miller use it this morning.

Best I can gather is Rush Limbaugh said it and Palin somehow absolved his use, as if she's the arbiter of language. I'm just wondering how in the world this has spurred so called liberals and progressives into frequent and inappropriate use of an offensive term.

Do we take our cues from Rush and Palin now? Surely the offenders think they're being ironic, but they're not. They're just being ugly and offensive.

Let's cool it. We're better than they are, right?

Steele has been making a fool out of himself for years. I used to live in Maryland when he was in a few elections. He wasn't any better at it then. He put his foot in his mouth all the time. Why any one can take this man seriously is beyond me.

My attention to an individual pretty much stops as soon as they start referring to themselves in third person.

Speaking of Maryland elections, Steele also accused attendees at a debate at Morgan State in Baltimore (an African-American state college) for throwing Oreo cookies at him. There is no actual evidence that this actually happened.

This from a guy who also used bumper stickers with "Steele Democrat" on them and bussed in homeless people from Philadelphia to hand out misleading flyers in Prince George's County along the same lines when he ran for Senate in 2006.

The man does not know what the truth is - he makes it up as he goes along - and the GOP and the media enable him.

...stops as soon as they start referring to themselves in third person. -terraformer

doubtful completely agrees.

I remember the late Steve Gilliard's complaints about Steele. It always seemed so excessive back then, to keep talking about this voluble boob from Maryland, such as the faked Oreo incident, especially when he couldn't even elected twice in his own state.

Now I see once again just how prescient Steve was. Some people, like Paris Hilton, are whores for fame, and they will do anything to stay in the spotlight, forever.

The major contrast between Steele and Kaine isn't skin color, it's approach. Steele has chosen a high visibility approach, in part because of his personality and in part because there's not clear elected party leader (vs. Obama on the Democratic side.)

Steele's approach has it's advantages - I know a lot of what he's been up too, and he's gotten a lot of visibility. What Kaine's been up to besides being one of the ball fumblers in MA I have no idea, and I like to follow politics.

You go for visibility, you typically get the upsides and the downsides.

Understanding Michael Steele is a little easier when you find out who's coaching him:

http://bit.ly/3ppyiu

(satire)

I knew he was an idiot back when he was running for Senate and addressing a Jewish organization in Montgomery County. He referred to abortion as a "holocaust."

I grew up in MoCo, and I knew that'd go over like a lead balloon, and I'm a shiksa!

When Steele stops behaving lie the court jester - then we will get to judge whether his own party is beign rasists toward him.

Where is his response the the Tea Party's call for reinstitution of Jim Crow Laws?