Fear of an Ass (Backwards) Hat –UPDATED
From the Man Beyond the Cutting Edge:
“You wear your hat one way. You like to wear it, you know, kind of cocked to the left, you know, because that’s cool out West,” Steele said. “In the Midwest, you guys like to wear it a little bit to the right. In the South, you guys like to wear the brim straight ahead. Now, the Northeast, I wear my hat backwards, you know, because that’s how we roll in the Northeast.”
I’m sure that this kind of branding is making the GOP check writers very happy.
UPDATE: Apparently the check writers want a whole lot of oversight on Steele’s ability to spend money:
Randy Pullen, the RNC’s elected treasurer, former RNC General Counsel David Norcross and three other former top RNC officers have presented Mr. Steele with a resolution, calling for a new set of checks and balances on the chairman’s power to dole out money.
The powers include new controls on awarding contracts and spending money on outside legal and other services.
Remember that Steele has outstanding campaign finance issues, one of which is paying his sister’s firm a lot of money when his campaign was done, and after the sister’s company had closed:
The funding fight comes on the heels of another open challenge to Mr. Steele’s authority. Unhappy RNC conservatives secured the signatures to force the committee to convene next month’s special meeting to vote on a resolution labeling Democrats as “socialists,” despite the chairman’s reservations about the political wisdom of the move.
Critics said the “socialist” resolution battle was a sign of Mr. Steele’s rocky start as RNC chairman and his continuing struggle to assert control of the party’s message since his election in January.
And they want to control what he says too. That is a fair bit of leadership humiliation for someone who is supposed to get their beyond cutting edge on.
Tags: Michael Steele, Republican Crazy
so, with steele making “ebonics” acceptable” among GOPers, how long do you think it is before a Repuke,… thinking they are cool, and “down” and allowed, … someone like Mitt Romney (that comes to mind because of his “connecting” to the black community by asking “who let the dogs out)…. how long until, at a GOP convention he introduces “the GOP Home N*gguh M C Steele!!!” i wanna see that so bad, not because i like hearing that word mind you, but because i just know it will happen, and they wont see the problem.. “we’re sorry IF we offended you”
Wearing ur hat backward is sooo Old School . . . Grandmaster Steele must be OG.
I wanted a backwards facing Phillies hat.I don’t know how many sporting-goods stores I went to.Thay only had the kind that faces forward.Where do you get the backwards ones?
I’m convinced that Steele is some kind of avant-garde performance artist and that he’s snickering behind his hand that some people take him seriously.
That’s funny skippertee.
Interesting take UI. Maybe Steele will have a show at my favorite museum in Baltimore, the American Visionary Art Museum.
This is a riff on the “big Tent” aka “Freedom Tent” aka “hat of many orientations” party.
South = straight ahead = lock up teh gays
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Midwest = a little bit to the right = gay sex okay if you happen to be at an out of town conference or on a Church retreat camping trip
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Northeast = backwards = get it on ’til the break of dawn.
It doesn’t matter how you wear your hat. The issues are an economy which is Obama’s now. Record and unsustainable spending, budget shortfalls, job losses etc.
Steele could wear a miners cap and it won’t matter but Obama better get a hard hat so when things fall down on him he lives.
If I was Rebuild the Delaware GOP I’d be wearing a backwards facing ski-mask or a leather mask/ball-gag combo.Repukes have nothing to say yet they keep saying it.
protack, was that a threat against the president’s life?