Steele's New GOP Message: "My Bad"; Bachmann To Steele: "You Be Da Man!"

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Steele's New GOP Message: "My Bad"; Bachmann To Steele: "You Be Da Man!"
By Eric Kleefeld - February 27, 2009, 9:11AM

Michael Steele sure has an interesting idea for how to rebrand the Republican Party: Loudly announcing at CPAC that they messed up, and pledging to do better now.

"Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad," said Steele. "But we go forward in appreciation of the values that brought us to this point."

But Steele rejected the idea that the recent elections meant the ideological ground had shifted. "I am here tonight to reject the idea that defeats of the past are a repudiation of core conservative values and principles," he said. "Nor do I believe that those defeats are a sign of things to come."

And check out this latest development in Steele's campaign to create a hip-hop image for the GOP. Michele Bachmann praised Steele's speech: "Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/steeles-new-gop-message-my-bad-bachmann-to-steele-you-be-da-man.php

[Occam Bandage]

1. Am I the only one who thinks Michael Steele's hip-hop push is looking increasingly minstrel-ish?

I mean, it's like everyone there is giddily playing a rough and uninformed caricature of black culture, simply because they have a real live black man at the center of the show.

[JohnnyBoots]

3. No, I agree. In a couple weeks we will see Mitch Mconnell on the floor in a

hockey jersery and Tupac styled do-rag on his head flashing gang signs. They are so far out there, it is almost pitiful....until you think of the mess thay have gotten us in.

I could totally see them bringing in Tracy Jordan as a guest speaker to CPAC if he were a real person.

[DrDan]

2. so this is supposed to go over well with the NASCAR crowd and the southern evangelicals?????

you gotta be kidding.