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RPV Chairman Pat Mullins Supports Steele, Changes He’s Brought to the RNC Were Essential
While many Republicans are calling for the resignation of Michael Steele, after revelations arouse about his profligate spending of party funds on a trip to a lesbian bondage-themed strip club, Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins wants everyone to know that he fully supports him.
Mullins supports him because “he was very helpful in Virginia throughout our campaign [last year], and I don’t think we need to get into a divisive intraparty thing like that in the middle of congressional elections.” Mullins would prefer to just sweep things under the rug, what a leader! This seems like a very compelling argument, I wonder what Virginia social conservatives think?
The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins weighed in on this controversy last week. To say he wasn’t happy with the RNC would be an understatement.
Perkins said the RNC — and its spending and the flap over a staffer expensing a trip to a bondage-themed nightclub — is “tone deaf” to social conservatives.
“The RNC is indifferent at best to the concerns of many social conservatives. The RNC does not reflect the values of the folks we represent across the country,” Perkins said.
Perkins went on to urge social conservatives to not give any money to the RNC. He concluded, “If you can’t run a party, you can’t run a country.” Doesn’t sound like vote of support for Steele.
Today Mullins joined 30 other state Republican party chairs in signing a letter supporting Steele. Here’s a notable excerpt from the letter (full letter is here):
The RNC under Chairman Michael Steele is a full partner with state committees, responsive to our needs, and intensely interested in providing the support necessary for victory. That process is not an easy process. Technology has had a great impact on the art of politics. That impact has required the RNC to adapt and change to work effectively in this modern environment. Change can sometimes be difficult. But the changes Michael Steele has brought to the RNC were essential for our party to adapt, and win, when we do not, for the moment, hold the White House or Congress.
I think they may be on to something here. In order “to adapt, and win” in New Jersey and Massachusetts, Steele obviously needed to change things up. An expenditure on a trip to a lesbian bondage-themed strip club was just the change that was needed. Heck, he was only trying to prove his street cred to those northeast liberals (snark).
Although a lifelong Democrat, Louisiana-born porn star Stormy Daniels is so impressed by the “change” Steele is bringing to the Republican party that she will run as a Republican against Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to be the nominee, if she decides to run on April 15. She issued a statement basically saying that Republicans best “espouse her ‘libertarian’ views about sex and money.” Imagine what a huge asset a porn star could be for Steele!
All kidding aside, Mullins has some explaining to do to social conservatives in Virginia. His idea of leadership is to just sweep things under the rug. I’m thinking social conservatives don’t quite see things the same way.
It’s been a tough two weeks, if you’re a Virginia Republican. Keep up the great work!
In Response to Steele Playing the Race Card, Allen Doesn’t “Care What His Skin Pigmentation Is”
As I’ve previously written, RNC Chairman Michael Steele is embroiled in a heavy wave of criticism, from fellow Republicans, over his profligate spending of party funds. This includes an expenditure for a well-publicized trip to a lesbian bondage-themed strip club.
What’s Steele’s excuse for all of this criticism? The race card. Yes, the same race card he has repeatedly “accused Democrats of using.” You have to love hypocrites!
Quick, when race is involved who’s the first person that you would seek an opinion from? Naturally, George Allen.
So what does George Allen (R-VA) think about all of this?
WARREN: “He [Steele] says he gets extra scrutiny because of the color of his skin, that there is less room for error because he’s black. Do you buy that?”
ALLEN: “I don’t care what his skin pigmentation is. Understand that I grew up in football families. You don’t care about someone’s race or religion or ethnicity. You care about can they do the job. I think Michael, I like Michael. When I was chair of the Senate Campaign, I’d have Michael speak because I think he’s a good, enthusiastic leader regardless of his race.”
So, Allen learned how to be colorblind by playing football. Allen recently explained, “In sports, what you have is a level playing field…you don’t care about race, all you care about is who can help you win.”
So what Allen is trying to say is that he learned to overlook a person’s color for the sake of winning. If only Macawitz would have followed this winning game plan in 2006, he may have still been Senator. I know, scary thought.
What’s worse is that several of his former college football teammates painted a different picture of him back in 2006. These former teammates say that he “repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks.”
Allen’s race problems have been well documented.
Here’s some advice: if you want to learn how to be tolerant, don’t ask or follow George Allen. If only someone would have told Bob McDonnell that, before deciding to follow Allen’s lead in omitting any mention of slavery when recognizing Confederate History Month.
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I’m guessing expenditures on faux lesbian bondage-themed strip clubs by the Republican National Committee will not sit well with social conservatives and potential Republican donors. What’s most surprising is the “lack of vocal opposition to Steele” amongst Republicans, notes the Washington Post.
Steele has come under fire recently for a recent expenditure used to take several donors to an adult-themed strip club, to the tune of $2K. Steele is also under fire for other “lavish” spending — $17K for private planes, $13K for limos and car service and $9K for a trip to a Beverly Hills Hotel. A former Republican opponent of Steele had a warning for Republicans:
Katon Dawson, a South Carolina Republican who lost to Steele in the contest for the RNC chairmanship, said in an interview that the committee needs to demonstrate fiscal responsibility at a time when the party is attacking Democrats on spending issues.
It’s funny how Republicans are so concerned with out of control spending in Washington. If this proves anything, it is that Republicans are still being Republicans. After all, wasn’t it the Democrats who handed the Republicans a $900 billion budget surplus only to have it squandered, through out of control deficit spending, and turned it into an $11 trillion deficit? They also voted against a health care reform bill that will reduce the deficit by over $1 trillion over the next 20-years.
Regardless of the extravagant spending by Steele, including a trip to a bondage-themed strip club, Republicans appear to have his back.
“Republicans are sticking together to get back the majority and are willing to sweep family problems under the rug,” said Ron Bonjean, a former top House GOP staffer.
This is the same attitude that Republicans had when they got us into our current fiscal mess, which President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been fixing ever since regaining control. The Republicans haven’t seemed to learn their lesson. Haven’t Republicans swept enough “problems under the rug” and on the backs of future generations of Americans? Americans have a choice come November: vote for Republicans who will continue to “sweep problems under the rug” and hope that they go away or vote for Democrats who will deal directly with the problems our nation faces, while continuing to fight for middle-class families and small businesses.
My vote goes to the Democrats!
UPDATE: According to CNN, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, issued the following statement on the RNCs strip club expenditure:
I’ve hinted at this before, but now I am saying it – don’t give money to the RNC.
Penny Nance, the head of Conservative Women for America, also issued the following statement:
If the RNC wants to represent conservatives and the Republican Party, then they have to act like conservatives – in a moral, fiscal and ethical manner. When RNC officials seem to think it wise to spend a grandmother’s monthly donation on wooing the younger generation by taking them to a bondage-themed sex club instead of helping to elect a conservative, a real problem exists.
I’d say all of this doesn’t bold well for Republicans and presents serious challenges in their efforts to win back control of Congress in November. All I can say is “Go Steele!”
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