Oi. Whaaaa! Republicans angry that Steele won’t call Obama a ‘socialist.’

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babylonsister  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-23-09 04:36 PM
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Oi. Whaaaa! Republicans angry that Steele won’t call Obama a ‘socialist.’
 Can they get any more assholey? Unreal.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/23/steele-socialist /


Republicans angry that Steele won’t call Obama a ‘socialist.’


State Republican party leaders are incensed that RNC chairman Michael Steele isn't labeling President Obama a "socialist." "We don't see this president so much as a socialist as we see him as a collectivist," Steele said earlier this week. At least 16 state leaders are now backing a resolution that would pressure Steele to adopt their partisan rhetoric by calling on the Democratic party to rename itself the "Democrat Socialist Party":


RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee call on the Democratic Party to be truthful and honest with the American people by acknowledging that they have evolved from a party of tax and spend to a party of tax and nationalize and, therefore, should agree to rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party.


The Washington Times writes, "It is the first time in memory that a sitting national leader of the Republican Party has faced a public challenge over his ideological leadership by conservative members of his own national committee." Both Oliver Willis and Steve Benen see the resolution as "evidence of broader trouble for Steele."
 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5520557

[The Village Idiot]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5520557

Steele is not part of the conservative side, or he is scared of the RINO's who control the party

[thundley4]

Steele is not part of the conservative side, or he is scared of the RINO's who control the party

I think it's the latter, but maybe not.  Regardless , the conservatives need to take back the party. If he is unwilling to call a spade a spade, (pun intended), and label 0Bama as a socialist, then maybe Steele is to much of a centrist.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Steele is a typical GOP-intelligentsia Fiscal Conservative, and has no common ground with the Social Conservative or Libertarian Conservatives, nor any use for them except on election day or for $$$.  As long as the 'Conservative' issues the GOP leadership cares about are limited to fiscal ones, the choice will remain voting for a RINO or staying home.

[The Village Idiot]

Not one of the 'political elite' viewed the tea parties 'very favorably' not one. according to Rasmussen.

I fail to see the fiscal conservatism