I’m Loving Michael Steele

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I mean, I’m not sure how else to put it. This guy has to be about the worst, most embarrassing party chair we’ve seen in recent memory. It’s embarrassing enough that Steele is like, what? … the third Republican to criticize Rush and then make it less than 36 hours before being forced to undergo the 21st century Republican version of a Maoist self-criticism session. It’s sad for the Republican party that no one can criticize Rush without having to be hauled out for this sort of humiliation a day or so later. But for Steele not to have realized that or not to have been sufficiently in control of his mouth to avoid saying this just shows once again that this dude is really, really not ready for prime time.

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