Party chief(Steele): Republicans 'screwed up' after Reagan

[RamboLiberal]

Source: USA Today/AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the party all too often lost touch with typical Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: "We screwed up," he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party's resurgence.

That "we" includes the last two Republican presidents, George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, and the most recent Republican candidate for president, Sen. John McCain.

In Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda, released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the conservative party should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

"We must support Republican officials who assert these principles," he writes. "When elected Republicans vote against Republican principles, the voters must withhold their support — withhold it vigorously and consistently."



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-01-05-steele-gop-book_N.htm

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Surprise, surprise, more Regnery toilet paper.

[Brickbat]

1. Well, let's see, what exactly is he talking about?

Is it the disastrous tax-cuts that stalled economic progress and job creation? Was it the blatant corruption of the Bush administration? Was it the preoccupation with what people were fiddling while the country burns? Huh, Michael, maybe you could just narrow it down a little bit how the Republican Party lost touch with typical Americans? I wonder...

[robo50]

2. Yes, I noticed that publisher, that's the best he can get?

WOW, so the head of the Republican Party is now engaging in a campaign AGAINST some elected Republicans?

It would be silly even if it were not laughable. That man has his head screwed tightly up his...

[Historic NY]

3. What has the Republican Party done for you?

[robo50]

4. The book goes after Bush I Bush II and McCain, nothing is

sacred, except that he never mentioned Palin in the book.

What a self-serving butt head he is!

[burning rain]

5. They royally screwed up under Reagan.

The one time they recently showed themselves at all capable of being part of responsible government was when they held a congressional majority under Bill Clinton from 1995-2001. That relative success, however, was contingent: it did not flow from their principles. Bubba was there to keep them from enacting their hearts' desire of budget-busting supply-side tax-cuts and mammoth "defense" spending. What tax cuts there were, were sane, like the $500-per-child tax credit. Despite the GOP's mad zeal to launch persecutorial "investigations" of anything and everything Clinton, and the rest of their follies, they can at least claim a share in getting us to a budget surplus in the Clinton years, but that was contingent on having a Democratic president over them to keep their worst fiscal impulses in check, as their disastrous fiscal performance under George W. Bush showed.

[Democrats_win]

11. Yet they impeached Clinton and didn't impeach war criminal bush!

The Repuke party is such an evil disaster for America that it goes beyond treason. There is NOTHING ever good about a Republican! They can do nothing but evil.

[burning rain]

13. All I'm saying is the dynamic between them & Bubba helped lead to a balanced budget.

It wasn't due to any virtue on the congressional GOP's part; they had and have no virtue.

[Xipe Totec]

6. The biggest screw-up, so-far, was making Michael Steele chairman n/t

[Fearless]

7. Rethugs do need a 12 step program... I'll give him that...

As long as those 12 steps takes them to the nearest exit and / or short pier.

[hatrack]

8. Today's True Scotsman Fallacy brought to you by the RNC!

Thanks, Chairman Assclown.

[rfranklin]

9. Steele: THE ONLY GOOD REPUBLICAN IS A DEAD REPUBLICAN!

Don't blame me, he said it.

[high density]

10. Defeating the Obama agenda

of economic recovery, jobs, health insurance reform, and keeping the country safe from terrorism

Yeah, you guys go run on that anti-American and anti-America plan.

[closeupready]

12. This treachery is really emblematic of the GOP, IMO

"Give me 30 shekels and I'll give you a book skewering the Republicans you hate most!"

And this guy is their chairman.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Jefferson23]

14. Your freaking party has done only a small percent of Americans any good, asshole.

And the Democrats are not doing a hell of a lot better for this country. Corporate America, hooray!

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I'd take it back farther than that

to McCarthy or maybe Goldwater.