Friday, January 30th, 2009...2:40 pm
It Doesn’t Totally Ruin Our Fun
Well, the RNC has elected Michael Steele their new chairman. Chip Saltzman (he of “Barack the Magic Negro” fame) didn’t even make a race of it after his support evaporated, but Katon Dawson made a good run at it, even leading on the fourth ballot.
You’d think that someone like Dawson would have made good fodder for someone like me. I mean, the guy was a member, until he wanted to run, of a whites-only country club and says that his political awakening was in opposition to civil rights laws. Steele, on the other hand, is African American. Gosh, except for the fact that he shares a name with a woman who used to be in the Bangles and the Runaways, what is a blogger to do?
Well…
He’s Mike Tyson’s ex-brother in law.
Look it up; I kid you not. Y’all have fun with that one.
3 Comments
January 30th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
For some reason, the term copy cat keeps popping up in my head.
I have not idea why.
January 31st, 2009 at 9:06 am
You probably got that idea from someone else.
February 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
It will be interesting to see what happens though.
Personally, I believe that Steele is the best choice for Republicans if they are serious about fixing what is wrong with their party. He’s somewhat of a moderate, and raised some hackles with his totally honest and forthright assessment of the Republican brand when he ran for office in 2006 (saying he was stuck with a scarlet letter ‘R’ next to his name.)
However, the conservatives who still dominate the GOP won’t let him move the needle back to the center that easy. What will be interesting is to watch the infighting that ensues. My prediction is that in the end the conservatives will win since they’ve already driven too many moderates out of the party, and Steele will either become irrelvant or will submerge his own ideas to run with the herd and give in to the conservatives.
Maybe he can make some ground with conservatives by playing a round of golf with Dawson to talk about it– oh, yeah. He can’t.