RNC Reince Preibus, "GOP Autopsy" - Full Video, March 18, 2013

The below is the full video from the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. RNC Reince Preibus' paid report which he calls the "GOP Autopsy". In other words, why the GOP continue to lose national presidential elections and can't figure out why. In all honesty, he could have called me and got this information for FREE. It is a stark, realistic evaluation of the Republican Party and how the public perceives them. At the end of the day though, unless the Republican Party's policies change to the mainstream view, this party will continue to LOSE, and continue to be Stuffy Old White Men.

Read the full report, here.

Michael Steele predicts GOP losses for 2010 (Video)

A couple of things on the GOP and Steele. First, Steele is releasing a book without the knowledge of the RNC, GOP. Yes, they are shocked. He has planned paid speeches, also without their knowledge and now the GOP can not control him.

Micheal Steele is all about MICHAEL STEELE. The GOP, RNC needs to get over it. It was their membership that put him in the chairmanship. Instead of the Republicans thinking through what they wanted in a leader of the RNC, they reacted to the election of Barack Obama and put the first black man in the seat. Bad move, horrible decision, now he is telling them to "shut up" or "fire him". If they do, you know the next set of statements is all about the GOP and RNC not being inclusive to minorities. And this is their biggest problem.

Steele is right about one thing in this interview with ABC, the Republicans are an antique party. They have not found their way to move forward and kudos to Steele for stating that out loud and acknowledging that the GOP will not recapture the House in 2010.

Lastly, with unemployment 10%, job losses continuing, the Republicans have a ripe opportunity to move forward with vision and populist themes, but as long as you have those in leadership who are still pumping 80s, Reagan themes, they will never move ahead. For this, the Democrats should be thankful in a year that the economy is taking a huge toll for many families.



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When you thought you heard it all from Michael Steele, now from the Roland Martin interview (Video)

Steele: Whites are scared of me.....

Is this what the Republicans what for leadership? Continue on....



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DNC goes after GOP in video, starting with Rep. Steve King (R-IA)

This is a very good ad.



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GOP getting tired of Michael Steele

Well, the GOP dooes not like Steele dabbling in policy, since he continues to put his foot in his mouth, now the ultimatum. Stick with state issues, get out of POLICY.

GOP leaders, in a private meeting last month, delivered a blunt and at times heated message to RNC Chairman Michael Steele: quit meddling in policy.

The plea was made during what was supposed to be a routine discussion about polling matters and other priorities in House Minority Leader John Boehner’s office. But the session devolved into a heated discussion about the roles of congressional leadership and Steele, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting.

The congressional leaders were particularly miffed that Steele had in late August unveiled a seniors’ “health care bill of rights” without consulting with them. The statement of health care principles, outlined in a Washington Post op-ed, began with a robust defense of Medicare that puzzled some in a party not known for its attachment to entitlements.

Elected Republicans urged Steele to focus on the governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia and other political matters, such as fundraising, rather than on attempting to establish party policy.

Steele was taken aback by the comments from Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Senate GOP conference Chairman Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Senate GOP policy Chairman John Thune of South Dakota and grew defensive during the 10-minute discussion, according to two people in the room.

Well, the GOP jumped on having a "black figure head" or minority if you wish and they ended up with one who continues to gaffe, not stay on their pages and does what he wants. Now the GOP attempt to reel him in, but I know they would prefer to have someone else in Steele's position, but when you play the "race card" as the RNC did, they have no choice but to DEAL WITH HIM.

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The RNC Seniors' Health Care Bill of Rights (Video)

Again, the GOP operatives have been good to keep the pressure and SCARE on the seniors. Why? Seniors, VOTE and if you are sniffing around their Medicare and Social Security, believe me, you will hear from them. This Health Care Bill of Rights is full of bullshit. Period. The Republican Party has NEVER cared about any health care reform. Any real reform has always been pushed by the Democratic Party. The Republicans have been trying to cut Medicare for years, they have NO intention nor will they VOTE for any health care reform.

Amazing how lies, when continued to be repeated, takes a life of its own and people actually BELIEVE IT.



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RNC launches television ad against health care (Video)

Starting today in Arkansas, Nevada and North Dakota targeting the senators in those states.



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RNC Chairman, Michael Steele's speech at the National Press Club (Video)

Think Progress, Michael Steele's Quotes

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Chris Matthews, "RNC=Rush, Newt, Cheney" (Video)

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Here comes GOP token, Michael Steele, weighing in on Judge Sotomayor (Video)

Again, the token has spoken.....

"And God help you if you’re a white male coming before her bench."

That from RNC Chairman, Michael Steele.



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Chris Matthews on Hardball goes off on the Republicans and their "pissant" criticism of the Obamas going to NYC (Video)

He nails Michael Steele to the wall. Pissant? Indeed. And all those trips to Crawford, Texas from Bush? On the big jumbo 747, everytime? Please. Another whine fest, for the GOP. This argument is moot.

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RNC web ad on "Government Motors" (Video)

From RNC Chairman Michael Steele:

"No matter how much the President spins GM's bankruptcy as good for the economy, it is nothing more than another government grab of a private company and another handout to the union cronies who helped bankroll his presidential campaign. President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent. And what do the taxpayers get? They'll get stuck with up to a $50 billion tab for the taxpayer dollars Obama is using to pay for his takeover of GM. Americans shouldn't be fooled. This is the real 'change' President Obama has in mind for America - government ownership of our economy financed with irresponsible and reckless government spending and debt and no jobs to show for it. This is a very sad day for the autoworkers and their families whose financial well-being will be directly affected by this clear act of an overreaching UAW and overbearing government."

This coming after the RNC acted like concern trolls as President Obama took his wife to a dinner and a play in NYC. Rolleyes, time.

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Are you holding your breath yet? Guess what?

The GOP will not rename the Democratic Party, "The Democrat Socialist Party".

Are you shocked? Were you waiting for their lovely attacks?

Whomever thought this one up, if he is on the payroll, needs to be fired.

Republicans on Wednesday abandoned an effort to label their opponents the "Democrat Socialist Party," ending a fight within the GOP ranks that reflected the divide between those who want a more centrist message and those seeking a more aggressive, conservative voice.

Two Republican National Committee members who backed a resolution to ask the Democratic Party to change its name said supporters agreed to changing the measure's language to urge Americans to oppose what the GOP is calling the Democrats' "socialist" agenda.

The name-changing resolution supported by Jim Bopp of Indiana and David Norcross of New Jersey had drawn criticism from GOP Chairman Michael Steele. Other party leaders called the move "stupid" and "absurd," saying it made Republicans look petty during a troubling time for the nation.

This idea was beyond absurd. Again, whomever thought this brilliant idea up, should be fired. Republicans you win with ideas, not with attacks and definitely not with petty antics. Sheesh!!!

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Michael Steele? Chairman? Quit? RNC? Really?

Again, I wrote that the minute the RNC PTB (powers that be) stepped in to take control of the checkbook, Steele is nothing but a Token.

And I am right.

Remember, taking the realm of the checkbook removes the power from Chairman Steele. Another thing, this is an inside way to push him out or give him an out to leave the post. It is not like Republicans are jumping for joy over Michael Steele. The man equates himself on the same stage as President Barack Obama and sorry, he not only lacks the gravitas, Steele can't even lick the boots of the man. for real. So, the Republicans took a gamble and made a dumb choice. This post is about grassroots, organizing, building the party and strengthening it in the states, not about all the glory road television gigs that Steele has had.

"They can contemplate all they want to, but the reality is if they want a figurehead chairman you can have a figurehead chairman, but it won't be Michael Steele," he said.

Ooooooooh.......

The Republicans so want this man to leave, so want him off the television, so want him to shut up, so want him to GO AWAY. Me, I would so love Steele to stay!!! His daily antics are to die for!!!

Then of course, the minute Steele drops a verbal viagra bomb, here comes the clean up crew:

Steele aides insist the chairman was not threatening to quit, but merely to fight over retaining his authority. But his comments reflect the persistent tension within the Republican National Committee over his chairmanship.

I don't care what anyone says, the RNC, GOP, Republicans have a pot of continuous hot mess stirring, I mean continuous.

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Michael Steele says, "Obama's bankrupting the country" (Video)

Steele also says, the "GOP is BACK!!!"

From BarbinMD over at Daily Kos:

"We are going to take this President on with class, we are going to take this President on with dignity," Steele will say. "This will be a very sharp and marked contrast to the shabby and classless way that the Democrats and the far left spoke of the last President."

The RNC meeting wraps up on Wednesday with a scheduled vote on a controversial resolution that calls on Democrats to rename their party the "Democrat Socialist Party."

Damn, class and dignity? What a joke!!! Did King Rush, Hannity, Michael Savage get the memo? I doubt it.

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Meet the Press with RNC Chair Michael Steele and DNC Chair Governor Tim Kaine, (Video and Transcript)

Exclusive! In their first Sunday showdown as Party Chairs, the DNC's Tim Kaine and the RNC's Michael Steele square off on the many issues that divide their two parties including health care reform, foreign policy and the economy. Plus, how does each leader plan to steer his side to victory in 2010 and beyond? We'll find out, only on "Meet the Press." And, insights and analysis from our political roundtable: Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass, Newsweek's Jon Meacham, The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, and National Journal's Ron Brownstein.

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Michael Steele, the gaffe master that keeps on giving....

The gaffe master, Steele of the RNC had the audacity to make this statement:

Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.

Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.

"Now all of a sudden I've got someone who wasn't a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for," Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. "So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money."

He is blaming gay marriage as a financial burder for taxpayers? WTF? And I hope Keith Olbermann is listening and reading this shit because it is truly a WTF in all realms of possiblity.

Of course, someone on Steele's staff, on his behalf will soon trot out and clarify his statements, but we all know what it is.

If the Republican Party wants to broaden its base, it needs to stop the hate rhetoric and be real on trying to reach all the folks they lost like the independents, the young voters, the new voters, the women, the gays, the hispanics, moderate republicans and what it had of the african-american vote. Statements like Steele's don't give the view of the Republic Party as a big tent but one that is a narrow and bigoted group.

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Michael Steele is a TOKEN!!!!

RNC Chairman Michael Steele gives up the purse strings at the RNC to the powers that be of the RNC. In other words, Steele is just a token chairman.

Capitulating to critics on the Republican National Committee, embattled Republican Party Chairman Michael S. Steele has signed a secret pact agreeing to controls and restraints on how he spends hundreds of millions of dollars in party funds and contracts, The Washington Times has learned.

The "good governance" agreement revives checks and balances Mr. Steele resisted implementing for RNC contracts, fees for legal work and other expenditures that were not renewed after the 2008 presidential nominating contest.

The agreement, proposed by several current and former RNC officials, goes further, making 33-year RNC veteran Jay Banning, who was fired by Mr. Steele along with his deputy last month, an on-call adviser to the RNC treasurer. Mr. Banning was seen as a trusted liaison to RNC members critical of Mr. Steele's tenure and financial management.

"I regard them - the Steele administration - bound by it," former Republican National Committee General Counsel David Norcross told The Times on Tuesday.

Mr. Norcross, RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, and former party budget chiefs Ron Kaufman and Alec Poitevint had fought with Mr. Steele over having the 168-member committee vote on restoring the "good governance" guidelines created in 2004 at a special May 20 meeting.

Trevor Francis, the RNC's new communications director, would not comment on the agreement that several of the dissident members said was reached.

"Everything was already in place," Mr. Francis said.

To be honest, Steele was already a shaky figure when it comes to his own financing of his various elections. Whatever the issue, this is unprecedented and makes Michael Steele nothing more and nothing less than a TOKEN HEAD FIGURE at the RNC.

My thing is this, "How long will he last?" My answer to myself, "I don't think very long."

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Michael Steele still can not keep his mouth shut

From the mouth of Michael Steele, RNC Chairman:

“Could you help a brother out? No more national conventions with 36 people of color in the room,” Steele told fellow Republicans on Monday, according to the Miami Herald.

Well, the problem is not helping a brother out, the problem is the Republican Party's platform and policies.

The platform and policies of the Republican Party were rejected in November, and not by a slither of a margin but resounding.

Jim Greer, the state's party chairman, added that the party would focus on increasing its use of technology to invigorate a younger generation of the GOP.

''We will not praise President Obama,'' Greer said, ``but we will learn from him.''

Steele said he wants to refocus the Republican Party's core message.

''A lot of people are losing their jobs right now and losing their homes,'' he said. ``What does the Republican Party have to say about that? That's what the people of Florida are waiting to hear.''

He added: ``We're beginning to set up an argument between creating wealth and creating opportunities versus what we feel the administration is doing, which is redistributing wealth and suppressing opportunities and relying more on government solutions as opposed to small business solutions.''

We will not praise him but learn from him? How dumb of a statement is that? The issue is that the GOP thinks they can throw a black man or a hispanic man on the stage and all of a sudden it is ok. The GOP thinks that they need that minority face to change the face of its party, that is not the problem with the GOP. The problem is their constant side of pro-business, especially Wall Street. Their problem is that they don't care about public education, but touts "No Child Left Behind", but damn sure did not fund it under their watch. It is not Barack Obama that is a problem, which they believe the country has just fallen under his spell, it is that the Republican Party policies are shitty.

Leadership means something these days. The Republican Party had it and got lost by their own personal greed. The divide in this country of rich vs. poor is staggering. Wages have not kept up and those who were rich, got mega richer. This country under the past 8 years have been starved of the basics, because the Republican Party did not feel it was necessary.

If the Republican Party really want to turn around, start with your message and be real about it. Folks are hurting now, but you are silent. People are losing jobs at rapid rates, but you have nothing to say. Folks are being thrown out of their homes, but you don't have a plan. Until you can convince folks that you actually care about THEIR ISSUES, you will continue to be a moot point.

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Need a morning laugh? Michael Steele, "I am done" with Obama (Video)

Michael Steele, "HELLO", you are only the RNC Chairman for the GOP and that is barely. President Barack Obama does not need to reach out to you for anything. I think you have more issues pending, like keeping your job. And this whine fest, about Obama not paying attention to him? GOP, I think you got a problem here. h/t Huffington Post

STEELE: Look, I like the president personally, even though I think he has got a little thing about me, that I haven't quite figured out what that is.

CNN: You haven't spoken to him?
STEELE: No.

CNN: You've reach out?
STEELE: Several times, and I'm done.

CNN: So there is no bipartisanship going on there?
STEELE: Not, not that I know of.

CNN: Is there any professional jealousy?
STEELE: Not on my part. What would I be jealous of?

CNN: He's the president of the United States.
STEELE: I'm chairman of the RNC, so, what's your point? We both have leadership responsibilities and roles. I'm not equating the two. My point is: you are on your track. I'm on my track. You do your thing. I do my thing.

Full interview about Steele and the GOP below


Part One


Part Two

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