TELL ME you did NOT see this coming: "Steele: Reid Should Resign Over Racial Comments, I Shouldn't"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Michael Steele: Harry Reid Should Resign Over Racial Comments, I Shouldn't

Sam Stein

First Posted: 01-10-10 09:37 AM | Updated: 01-10-10 09:59 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/michael-steele-harry-reid_n_417661.html





Michael Steele called on Sunday for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to step down for racially insensitive comments, even as the RNC Chairman brushed aside talk that he should resign for using an epithet of his own.

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday", Steele condemned Reid for calling then-presidential candidate Barack Obama "light-skinned" and "with no Negro dialect" in private conversations during the campaign. The remarks, Steele stressed, were just as contemptuous as those made by former Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who once praised Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential candidacy. And, as such, Reid (like Lott) should be forced to resign from his leadership post.

"I think he should," said Steele. "There is a standard where Democrats think they can say these things and apologize when it comes from the mouth of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it's racism. It's either racist or it's not. And it's inappropriate, absolutely. So if the standard is the one we saw with Trent Lott as leader at the time, then I think this absolutely falls in that category here. ... Remember, this is the same leader who just a few weeks ago was talking about health care in the context of slavery. Clearly he is out of touch."

The follow-up question to Steele's statement was obvious from the onset. The RNC Chairman, this past week, had been chastised by members of both parties for using the phrase "Honest Injun" to tout the Republican party's platform. Combined with other gaffes, was this too grounds for resignation?

"No, absolutely not," he said. "Why should I Chris ? I'm pushing the ball. I'm raising the money. I'm winning elections. I have got the base fired up."

"If the comment is offensive I apologize for it," he added. "I wasn't intending to say a racial slur at all. The reality is that's not the same as what we were talking about before."

[Mz Pip]

1. He's winning elections?

Really? I must have missed that.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Yeah, which ones?

The Virginia and New Jersey GUBERNATORIAL races are the only (local) races they've won recently and the results of both of them were neither unexpected nor surprising. :shrug: Have there been any NATIONAL (i.e. Congressional) elections they've won since 2008?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "The reality is that's not the same..."

The gift that keeps on giving. :rofl:

[KittyWampus]

3. Hello? That's why those butchered partial quotes were released yesterday.To cover Steele's sorry ass

and a lot of DU'ers were perfectly happy to play along with the Republican's playbook yet again.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Typical Republicon - a hypocrite.

Steely Mike is just an

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Bwahahahahaha!!! nt

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Proof that an alternate universe exists

on earth.

Simply not to be believed...these small,ignorant minds.

I call for every single politician who has ever said anything that anyone else in the world thinks might be offensive in any context for any reason...to resign.