Steele: Steele: "Ya'll" Moderates Are Welcome To Join GOP -- But Not To Change It

[SemiCharmedQuark]

From Talking Points Memo:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/steele-moderates-are-welcome-to-join-gop----but-not-to-change-it.php


"Michael Steele has an interesting message for moderates, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. During a news conference at the Wisconsin GOP convention on Friday, Steele said moderates are welcome to join the Republican Party -- but not to change it.

"All you moderates out there, y'all come. I mean, that's the message," Steele said. "The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front."

But, he added: "Understand that when you come into someone's house, you're not looking to change it. You come in because that's the place you want to be."

He also had tough words about Arlen Specter's support for the stimulus. "That vote on the stimulus bill was the effectiveness of a party call," he said. "That was a stand-up moment for every Republican ... And so, you voted yourself out of the party. We didn't kick you out.""

[d_b]

1. They're stuck with the wingnuts

I love it.

[MercutioATC]

4. Exactly. They brought the squirrels out of the woodwork for the last election...

...and now they have to deal with them.

Comeuppance can be a pretty thing :)

[Happyhippychick]

2. Come in to our house and keep you pie hole shut! How's that working for you GOOP?

[Mz Pip]

3. Why would I want to

spend time in a house where the owners are opening hostile to what I believe?

Keep digging that hole Mr. Steele. One of these days it will completely collapse on you and the rest of the reactionaries who are running your party.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. "We've got a big tent, but it is over here."

It's not over there where you are at, it's over here. Now don't go thinking that because we call it a "big tent," that you can pack that tent up and move it over to where you are. No, no.

[zulchzulu]

6. Are there enough Repig Barf Bags produced yet, Mr. Steele?

If you want me at the front, I'll need a few dozen barf bags.

[Cha]

7. I bet some people are wondering how

rush limpbaughs ever took over the republicon party. Not hard for me to see.

When all you have are freakin' lies then rush is your man.

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. If I had my hand up his back I couldn't script this better. nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. LOL

[skeewee08]

9. So what he really meant was

Y'all come on over to the party that don't give a SH**about you.... U Betcha!!!!! Wink.. Wink....

[wileedog]

11. Where did they find this raving imbecile?

And who decided to put him in charge?

[smoochpooch]

12. Their lack of self-awareness is jaw-dropping. How can a major party be this clueless?

:crazy:

[Occam Bandage]

13. So moderates are welcome, as long as they don't mind becoming radical conservatives.

It's like a church putting out a sign saying "People of all faiths welcome, so long as you convert to fundamentalist evangelicalism once you're inside." One or the other, bub.

[ljm2002]

14. "...when you come into someone's house,"...

...", you're not looking to change it."

It's like telling a prospective in-law that they are welcome to come in and join the family at the table -- but they will never really be part of the family, never have anything to say about how things go in the family, never be a "voting member" as it were.

Very inviting, I must say.

By all means, keep it up, Mr. Steele! :evilgrin:

[firedupdem]

15. He acts like a clown. n/t

[Raine]

16. In other-words "we want your vote and your contributions

after that just sit down and STFU!" Hey Steele when someone invites a person to their house they try and accommodate the guest and try to put out something on the table that the person can at least eat!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

17. You gotta dance with the squirrel what brung ya. Or something like that.

[saltpoint]

18. " Y'all moderates are welcome, long as ya ain't TOO moderate."