Steele in Lock-Step with RNC Chair Limpballs On Specter: "Good riddance...I'm not weeping here" (CBS

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Steele, Rush In Lock-Step On Specter
Posted by Daniel Carty

(CBS)After backtracking last month from comments that conservative talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh was "incendiary" and a mere "entertainer," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is following the firebrand host's lead on the latest issue dogging the GOP.

When asked on CBS' The Early Show Thursday whether his view of Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats mirrored Sen. Olympia Snowe's (regret) or Limbaugh's (good riddance), Steele was quick to side with the controversial radio host.

"Rush (is right)," Steele said. "I'm sorry, I'm not weeping here."

Steele called Specter's maneuver a "cold, crass political calculation by a senator who could not get reelected through a nominating process in the Republican party."

"This has nothing to do with philosophy and principle and all those wonderful-sounding words."

Specter announced his switch to the Democrats Tuesday, saying he had become "increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy."

But Steele sees the move as political opportunism.

Steele said that Specter "whined and moaned and groaned" to the White House and party officials to save his seat in 2004, when he faced a primary challenge from former congressman Pat Toomey.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. You kick ass steele

I'm sure your boss limbaugh wants you to start running off all those damned moderates from the grand ole party. Whats a political party if its not pure. You can be the token Aryan.

[high density]

2. Specter himself said it was political opportunism

I am very glad to see Steele is continuing to follow the extremist path that Limbaugh is paving. It seems the Repukes will need a few more election cycles worth of losses before they realize their massive problems.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I guess Steele and the Party didn't analyze what happened in November.

On Letterman last nite the top ten was "Top Ten Reasons Arlen Specter Switched Parties"

#4 was
Same reason 10 million other Republicans did in November.

I wonder how many Republicans in Pennsylvania voted for Obama and will vote for Specter as a Democrat? Probably more than Steele wants to believe.

The last statement provided by Steele "What the voters rejected was our failure to lead" indicates that Steele doesn't understand the meaning of leading. They sure as hell didn't lead when Bush was President and they sure as hell aren't leading when they do everything they can to block legislation.

[Cha]

7. "failure to lead" "failure to tell the truth"

"failure to have a foundation" "failure to have a brain between them", ect ect ect ad infinitum.

[firedupdem]

4. Rush is clearly the leader of the GOP. It seems as if they have

gotten the message and will follow his lead instead of crossing him and having to apologize.

[LynnTheDem]

5. And THAT is exactly why so many are leaving the (R) party.

The spiteful sullen little baby attitude.

[Cha]

6. Yeah, so it makes Arlen feel even

better about leaving, YAY.

Imagine what Obama and Team would say if someone left like evan bayh..Sorry to see you go and we wish you the best, ev-an.

[Inuca]

8. Steele is wrong (surprise!)

Specter's leaving may not have to do much with principle (depends how you define it), but has a lot to do with political philosophy, that's what made him and others like him (Hagel and Chaffee come first to mind, but they are quite a few others) unwanted and unable to survive in the republican system. It must not feel good to be Olympia Snowe these days... The feeling I got is that she really does NOT want to leave the party, she IS a republican, just not what being a republican has come to mean these last few years.

[ClarkUSA]

9. Steele is the best RNC chairman evah (for Democrats, that is). Long live his tenure!