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Steele in Serious Condition

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<font size="3">Speaking at a Connecticut fundraiser, Steele said of the war in Afghanistan:</font size>

<font size="4">"This was a war of Obama's choosing," Michael Steele said at the event. "This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."


It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that's the one thing you don't do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan."</font size>​


<font size="3">Some conservatives fumed and Democrats pounced:</font size>

  • <font size="3">William Kristol, editor of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, wrote, in a piece on his magazine's Web site: "There are, of course, those who think we should pull out of Afghanistan, and they're certainly entitled to make their case. But one of them shouldn't be the chairman of the Republican party."

    "The war in Afghanistan was not 'a war of Obama's choosing,' " he added. "It has been prosecuted by the United States under Presidents Bush and Obama. Republicans have consistently supported the effort."</font size>


  • <font size="3">Brad Woodhouse, Democratic National Committee spokesman: "Michael Steele would do well to remember that we are not in Afghanistan by our own choosing, that we were attacked and his words have consequences." </font size>


  • <font size="3">Erick Erickson, who runs the influential conservative blog Red State said: "Michael Steele must resign. He has lost all moral authority to lead the GOP." </font size>


  • <font size="3">Former South Carolina GOP chair Katon Dawson, who finished second to Steele in the race for the chairman's post early last year, said: "Steele should now be ousted." "The RNC should do the responsible thing and show Steele the door," Dawson told CNN. "Enough is enough."</font size>


  • <font size="3">Senator Lindsey Graham,R-South Carolina, when asked for his reaction to Steele's comments stated: "Dismayed, angry, upset. It was an uninformed, unnecessary, unwise, untimely comment. If you’re a student of history, you would know that America cannot afford to allow Afghanistan to go back into Taliban control. We’re not here fighting a ground war to occupy this country. We’re here to help Afghans who could live in peace with us. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">This is not President Obama’s war. This is America’s war.</span> The deadline of July 2011 in terms of withdrawal has to be clarified but I want to separate myself from that statement. And the good news is Michael Steele is backtracking so fast, he’s going to be in Kabul fighting here pretty soon."</font size>


  • <font size="3">Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) said on ABC's This Week: <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"I think those statements are wildly inaccurate</span>, and there's no excuse for them," “I think that Mr. Steele is going to have to assess as to whether he can still lead the Republican Party as chairman of the Republican National Committee,”</font size>
 
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But, Ron Paul says the patient is stable
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<font size="3">Known for going against the party grain, Rep. Ron Paul has emerged as just about the only elected Republican sticking up for Michael Steele after the GOP chairman made controversial comments about Afghanistan last week.

The Texas Republican and former presidential candidate, who opposes the Afghanistan war, issued a statement congratulating Steele as hordes of Paul's colleagues condemned the chairman for calling Afghanistan a "war of Obama's choosing" and suggesting it was not winnable.

<font size="3">"He is absolutely right -- Afghanistan is now Obama's war," Paul said in a written statement. "During the 2008 campaign, Obama was out in front in insisting that more troops be sent to Afghanistan. Obama called for expanding the war even as he pretended to be a peace candidate.

"Michael Steele should not resign. Smart policies make smart politics. ... Michael Steele has it right and Republicans should stick by him," Paul said.</font size>​

He urged Steele not to "back off" as he "speaks truth about this war."

Unfortunately for Steele, Paul -- the consummate party outsider -- may not have a lot of sway with the Republican brass on the issue. Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said Paul has not spoken personally with Steele about his remarks.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/rep-ron-paul-steeles-corner-afghanistan-remarks/
 
thoughtone said:
Seems like you have problem with Black people in power.
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It seems as if you are more interested in providing cover for yourself and you're lack of rebuttal skills than debating our community issues in an above board manner.

It's not about color it's about competence. No one is perfect but I think we should expect more from our Representatives. Is there something wrong with that? Is it always about color with you. When all else fails throw out the race card. I'm suppose to shut up?:lol: You know me better than that.

Steele said something stupid and he should step down. I don't accept mediocrity out of the party I support. You can't blame the man for a war he had absolutely no part of. But don't let the facts get in the way of ignorance!

For kicks and giggles my favorite conservatives and men of color are MLK, Booker T. Washington, Fredrick Douglas, JC Watts and the cat out of S. Carolina Tim Scott is promising.
 
thoughtone said:
That settles it! Lamarr, Steele is approved by the boss man himself.
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:D

Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney and John McCain all contributed to Barack Obama getting elected. It was their failed policies Republicans followed to defeat; perhaps, it’s time to follow Steele’s or Ron Paul’s lead and ask some tough questions about the war. Maybe even define our mission there or better yet — come home. After all, it is President Obama who is escalating our troop deployments across the world. If "REAL" conservatives don’t keep Obama in check, who will?
 
thoughtone said:
Seems like you have problem with Black people in power.
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To be fair he doesn't like Republicans and even more so black Republicans. If we are going to attack the person we have to at least get it right.

Funny how the Democrats always want to tell the Republicans what they should do and who should lead their party which is kinda stupid on their part because they should want the worse leadership in place so that they can continually beat them in elections.

So it seems Steele's problem was that he didn't back up what he said properly. It's not that he said anything wrong.

The thing with saying something controversial is one must be prepared with valid argument to defend it.
 
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