Say Good-Bye To Steele
Michael Steele is pro-choice.
M (Michael Steele): The choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life or you can choose abortion. You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think the power of the argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other.
L: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?
M: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.
L: You do?
M: Yeah. Absolutely.
I can’t imagine the Pro-Life storm heading his way. Read the interview. He’s a discombobulated mess on one of the Republicans most clear-cut positions – abortion. I really don’t see how he survives this latest slip of the tongue.
Tags: Michael Steele, Republicans
I’ve been reading about Steele today and there seems to be a bunch of speculation that he doesn’t last much past May or so. With Katon Dawson queued up to take over.
From Steele to Dawson? Oh, the irony!
I can bet that Katon Dawson does not plan to do a “hip hop” outreach.
Oh my. He won’t survive the night. You simply cannot lead the Republican Party today if you are anything but vehemently anti-choice. It is not forgivable to them.
Steele was to face a No Confidence vote at the end of the month, no matter if the GOP won the special election in NY-20, Gilibrand’s old seat.
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I think I would be rich now if I had invested in popcorn stocks. Is it too late to get in? Has Steele always been pro-choice?
I remember Conservatives questioning his pro-life stance, but I thought he came out stating that they had no reason to question his position.
In the same interview, Steele also says that homosexuality is not a choice, that they are born that way. WHOA. Steele just signed his “death warrant” with respect to the far Reich.
And Joe the Plumber is not down with those funky, fresh beats of the Steele-era GOP.
Steele wants the hip hop bunch to join up with the repukes….next he will be offering to legalize pot? oh does he actually believe that will drag em over to the dark side.
Did the Grand Ole Perverts actually believe putting him up would bring them votes…the guys elections in the past are frought with fraud. There is an allegation of a consultant he hired that really wasnt a registered political consultant? The man is as much of a buffoon as is Vitter.
Are you f***ing kidding me, Liz? Buffoon Steele may be, but at least he doesn’t wear diapers. Vitter is the ultimate buffoon, and by the way, is there any better metaphor for the Republican party than a temper-tantrum throwing man who wets his pants and wants other people to clean up his sh** for him and then gently wipe his ass?
Then Vitter releases his “no cost stimulus plan”. The comparison is obvious – Obama offers Change You Can Believe In, and the only kind of change Vitter wants involves something that is full of sh**.
I read an extended excerpt of Steele’s interview over at TPM and Steele contradicts himself later in the interview. He says that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and that it should be left up to the states, which is a Republican position.
I’m thinking that “left up to the states” use to be an allowed Republican position, not so much anymore, and especially not when teamed with “Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.”
…actually, that “left up to the states” line only surfaced as a Repub talking point as a response to the progressive/liberal question: why didn’t Bush and his Congress do anything to stop abortion in the U.S. when they controlled the agenda and the votes? Suddenly, abortion became the purview of the states, not the feds.
Some excuse was needed to keep Catholic votes in the Repub party last fall, and that’s the best the RNC could come up with.
We haven’t heard the line as much now that Democrats are in charge of the federal government. Steele must have missed that meeting…
“why didn’t Bush and his Congress do anything to stop abortion in the U.S. when they controlled the agenda and the votes?”
Remember partial-birth abortion? Yeah, that isn’t legal anymore.
Barry promised to re-legalize it but Barry promises lots of things.
Tom,
You’re completely wrong. Late-term abortions are still allowed. Only “head first” abortion is outlawed, which means some women face a greater risk of uterine damage. (The “direction” of the late-term abortion depends on the position of the fetus.)
So really, late-term abortions still occur but some women face greater risks. Anti-abortion activists admitted that they think this is a good thing.