Nickname for Michael Steele: Zelig
I hate to say it, but this post on the shifting positions of Michael Steele is pretty much on the mark.
You know what? “I’m tired,” too.
President Obama isn’t the only one who is tired these days. Many of us regular folk are, too, for both similar and differing reasons.
Quote of the day
At the Fox Forum, Peter Roff – ‘Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberty/former Senior Political Writer, United Press International’ – writes a scathing piece on the WH’s efforts to demonize Rush Limbaugh – and via extension the GOP. The money quotes:
Is Steele really prepared to lead the GOP? PLUS: More on the efforts to demonize Rush
Ed Morrissey has a thoughtful analysis on the topic of Steele here, which leads me more and more to thinking that Steele isn’t ready for showtime at all. He’s gone from GOP rising star to one of the most despised in the GOP in the timespan of about a week, and as Ed details in his post, a lot of it has to do not just with Steele’s mocking of Rush Limbaugh’s speech from this past weekend in which Rush made the case for a government that runs based on conservative principles – which are good not just for conservatives but for everyone, but also his failure to repudiate D.L. Hughley when he compared the GOP convention to “Nazis.”
Thought of the day
Nicole Wallace, a senior advisor to the McCain-Palin campaign last year and former assistant to President Bush, makes a great point in response to all the back and forth drama going on over Rush Limbaugh’s Saturday CPAC speech:
Michael Steele goes from massive support to massive outrage in just a few seconds
I can’t really find too much to argue with what Michelle Malkin said here regarding RNC Chair Michael Steele’s recent comments (audio and video here of Steele’s comments and Rush’s response) about Rush Limbaugh and how Steele fed right into the mainstream media/lefty (but I repeat myself) playbook in agreeing with their over-simplistic characterizations of Rush Limbaugh – and of the convention goers at the GOP National Convention. For the last comment, where he didn’t speak up and protest when the interviewer (CNN’s D.L. Hughley) said that the GOP convention looked like “Nazi Germany,” Steele owes every single conservative an apology. You’ve got to stand up for your party, Michael!