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

Here’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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