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Michael Steele: I Was Against Sarah Palin Before I Was For Her

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Picture 2Here’s a great way to get people to change their minds about you: pen a smash-hit memoir, sell out your national, campaign-like book tour, and flood the media with big interviews and soundbites. It’s hard to argue with that kind of success. Or at least it’s hard to argue against it.

Michael Steele, the current chairman of the GOP who continues to threaten to deal harshly with any member who does not toe the Right line, appears to be suffering with the same malady affecting much of the Republican party: what to do about Sarah Palin. The current answer apparently involves some flip-flopping and a**-kissing.

Courtesy of Daily Kos, here’s video of Steele from back in July saying 2012 was not an option for Palin, and again last week criticizing people for dismissing her so easily.

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  • MikeLI631

    Can you belive this Joker, is the representative of a “political party” ?

    I guess he is a Modern Man…overly cautious, very sensitive to “hurting feelings” of ANYTHING, always with one eye, on the polling.

    He would make a perfect, TV Host, wouldn’t he…maybe he can pick something up, at PMS-NBC, after this “gig”.

    Or end up on “K” Street, in a lobbying firm…THIS MAN HAS A FUTURE…PLEASE FIND ANOTHER JOB FOR HIM !

  • TfT

    Kind of like Obama was for a military trial of KSM before he was against it?

    In 06, Obama said: KSM would get a full military trial because he is guilty of a war crime”, but in 09 Obama said something completely different.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Not surprising that Steele would flip/flop on Palin – he’s displayed no principles at all. But at least he was showing some judgment in not being for Palin. Now he’s demolished that delusion.

  • TfT

    Interesting, having just listened to the clip, no where are the words “not an option” mentioned. Steele said “from his standpoint he would take 2012 off the table…..”. He never said 2012 was not an option. Much ado about nothing, imho.

  • SWWT

    Oh no, a politician flip-flopped on an issue! What are we ever to do?! Aaaahh….

  • tjl

    TfT holding strong. You go girl! Fighting tooth and nail. To the grave. As blatantly wrong as you are you stand up for da’ man. Talking points included! Niiiiice.

  • http://the-w.com/ CRZ

    by Glynnis MacNicol

    Check.

    Sarah Palin

    Check.

    Courtesy of Daily Kos

    Oh no.

  • MikeLI631

    SWWT, it’s not that surprising, but he MAKES IT AN ART FORM !

  • ImNotBlue

    TfT says:
    November 27, 2009 at 9:24 am

    Or how Afghanistan was a “war of necessity,” before it took 3 months to think about…

    CRZ says:
    November 27, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    The only thing she’s missing is her obligatory reference to Glenn Beck. But then again, we already know that Glynnis doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and is simply a hack for the left. There’s a reason why she never comments on the responses to her posts…

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