'Don't ever preach to me again!': Ex-GOP chair tells evangelicals who still support Trump to 'shut t
Source: Raw Story
Dont ever preach to me again!: Ex-GOP chair tells evangelicals who still support Trump to shut the hell up!
Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele blasted Family Research Council president Tony Perkins for giving President Donald Trump a mulligan on paying hush money to former adult film star.
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I have very simple admonition: just shut the hell up and dont preach to me about anything ever again, Steele suggested.
After telling me who to love, what to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes dont matter, the grabbing the you-know-what doesnt matter, the outright behavior and lies dont matter, just shut up! Steele blasted.
They have no voice of authority anymore for me, Steele concluded.
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/dont-ever-preach-ex-gop-chair-tells-evangelicals-still-support-trump-shut-hell/
Video at the link.
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)maryallen
(2,172 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Well, he told them off over Roy Moore also, but I'm mostly guessing he sees a path to a resuscitated career that direction. Good sign if so.
47of74
(18,470 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That's my takeaway, and I agree wholeheartedly.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)so this is not surprising. What IS surprising is the number of formerly deplorable pundits, who have become agreeable since Trump (yes, Wm. Kristol, looking at you).
dubyadiprecession
(5,618 posts)...or this guy .
pangaia
(24,324 posts)is useful... when he is useful... and only when he is useful..
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)During the Bush admin I thought Steele was a bit of a doofus, but since then he seems to have figured out a few things.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)To believe wholeheartedly in Those That Preach, it can take a while to come to your senses.
Personally, I admire Mr. Steele. Takes a lot to deprogram yourself from a cult.
What's the difference between religion and a cult? Cults don't have bingo!
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)that he turns Democrat.
He's certainly a lot better human than when he first got out of the RNC.
LiberalFighter
(50,485 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Or Rockefeller Republican.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)my TV while making dinner.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Didn't see that coming.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)OMGWTF
(3,891 posts)Welcome to the light Michael; there was never really any place for you with the RethugliKKKan party.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)Oh, and Welcome to DU!
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)mwooldri
(10,291 posts)Mr. Steele comes across as a ConservaDem. I know he can't admit his party left him... but that is what has happened. He didn't leave the GOP, the GOP left him.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)And compunction.
Mr. Steele can sit at my table and break bread with me whenever he wants.
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)nt
thegoose
(3,115 posts)I'm tired of seeing these "reformed" Republicans who helped to engender the foul party we see today. They're not becoming liberal, they're just complaining because they long for the good old days when hate and exclusion were simpler...
Sure, we love what they are saying these days. Where the hell were they when the foundation of today's rethug insanity was carefully constructed? Right there, in middle of it, working as hard as they could toward the shit show we have now.
I want to hear them disavow everything they have done since the 1990s.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)The flamboyant actress Tallulah Bankhead said the corrupt Repuke party needed to die. And her father was one of 'em!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If the $130,000 went to Steele, hed be fine with it.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)And I like it!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)But Steele hasnt been on a GOP meal ticket in a long time.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)I just thought you were implying he'd easily be paid off for a similarly stormy figure in order to sing Puke praises again.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)just found a niche to benefit from personally.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)dchill
(38,317 posts)"My dog bit me on the leg today
My cat clawed my eyes
Ma's been thrown out of the social circle
And Dad has to hide
I went to church incognito.
When everybody rose, the Reverend Smith,
He recognized me,
And punched me in the nose, he said..."
No More Mr. Nice Guy
(Alice Cooper)
TomSlick
(11,032 posts)If your moral norms only apply to political enemies, they are neither norms nor moral.
shanny
(6,709 posts)pamdb
(1,331 posts)They never did have authority over you unless you were stupid enough to give it to them.
Hear here!
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Not that I know his sexuality, but thats my take on these holier than thou types
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)in the matter.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)They have condemned everything and tell you how to live you life . Everyone is saying hell nah get your act together fundies
yurbud
(39,405 posts)rpannier
(24,304 posts)followed by their anti-gay marriage.
Falwell and Jim Jones had a long history of opposition to interracial dating and marriage
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)And Steele's sister ( Monica ) is the former wife of boxer Mike Tyson
Steele was born in '58 and was raised in South Carolina
There was opposition in many places around the country, including South Carolina which is the home to Bob Jones University, which had a school policy that did not allow for Interracial dating of any kind.
That is what I am referencing when I wrote that. I do not know if he ever had a girlfriend that wasn't African-American, or if he had interests in a girl that wasn't.
But, he likely heard it many, many times. "Keep to your own kind."
I'm not gay, but I grew up in a time (I was born in 64) where people were quick to say that was wrong -- and they said it to everybody, not just gay people.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Was because W told him no faith-based funds for you if you're publicly racist...
But he's still against interracial relations *privately*...
7962
(11,841 posts)And thats usually followed by a lot of stammering.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)Forget about Ben Carson - he doesn't know if he's been punched, reamed or bored. MS seemed to have at least some self-awareness, and he always struck me as much more of an Olde Tyme Republican who actually believed in "true" conservative values than the pack of rabid wolverines he "led". The kind of opposition with whom you could at least have civil discourse.
Perhaps that impression wasn't so far off as it sometimes appeared.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)he always has known what the GOP was, and what he was to them, and was OK with it, because he found a niche to benefit from personally.
I have felt that way all along with him, going back to when he first came to the national stage as the Lt Gov of Maryland.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)you have expressed my feelings about these charlatans exactly
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)cilla4progress
(24,585 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:35 AM - Edit history (1)
Why does it take some people so long?
canetoad
(17,088 posts)The longer they hold out defending and supporting Trump, the more they are trying to cover up.
The ones we're seeing now, (Steele, Schmidt, M. Joe etc) are just the early wave. There will be a torrent soon. Then there will be the really, really guilty ones who hold out till they go to jail.
WestIndianArchie
(386 posts)thegoose
(3,115 posts)Initech
(99,909 posts)They really need to shut the hell up!
cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)So don't come at me like you are from some high moral mountain.
Peace
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)Not sure where my brain was. For some reason I always associate him with that period. Time condenses when you get to be an old fart like me.
Peace
highplainsdem
(48,720 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Response to highplainsdem (Original post)
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KWR65
(1,098 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(23,812 posts)Guess he's reached the end of the line...today's Republican Party doesn't need his services anymore.
NCDem777
(458 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)But gawd Tweety is annoying. He couldn't just let the power of that statement, coming from the former GOP chair no less, stand there for a moment. He had to rush in and try and make a "funny joke" "but if you're a baker, you do not have to bake a cake for a gay wedding" What a twit.
happy feet
(856 posts)Tweety talks too much and always has to be the center/star on his show.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)That was several weeks ago.
When one youngster asked him about the GOP's moral authority, clearly hoping Steele could tell them how to bolster it and use it, he burst out, "Oh HELL no!" Then he went on a righteous rant saying pretty much what you just quoted here.
Michael Steele has zero fucks left to give that morally bankrupt party.
He is truly small-c conservative. When talking about his political and social philosophy, he gave a bit of his autobiography. Straight out of college he went into Roman Catholic seminary to study for the priesthood (Governor Jerry Brown also studied for the priesthood). He talked about what the vows he took really meant in relationship to other human beings, and it was all about that relationship and compassion toward others. How he ended up a Republican I do not know, but he sure is not one any more.
He and others who have given up on the GOP in the past several years have not only earned my respect, but have taught me something about myself, and that is a recognition that I may judge too quickly and without enough information.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Charlatans and hypocrites - all they care about is money and power (and sex with other people's spouses)
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Sex with gay masseusses whilst using meth and wearing latex.
Ah, the joy of watching the hypocrisy of it all...
susanna
(5,231 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)who they can love and they don't have a choice with what to do with THEIR BODIES.. BUT..
trumphuck can do anything the damn hell he pleases and the evangelicals give him a FUCKING PASS.
nightwing1240
(1,996 posts)Just a bunch of phony Christians that support Drumpf and I've been calling out "friends" even during the repub primaries to name me a single thing that's even remotely Christian about him. Just like the empty suit that he is, there is absolutely nothing. The word friends is in quotation marks because they aren't friends any longer, I don't wish to be associated with a pack of hypocrites.
JDC
(10,081 posts)Response to highplainsdem (Original post)
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kentuck
(110,950 posts)ABSOLUTELY NONE.
lark
(23,002 posts)They don't give a shit about God, Jesus or morality, it's all about political power to them. They have done more to destroy religion in this country than anything that's ever happened in my long life. I'm glad my evangalistic mom and dad aren't around to see this, I know my mom would be totally appalled.
Stardust1
(123 posts)marble falls
(56,358 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Michael, you are a dollar short of a dime, so little, so late. The Republican Party, under IT, has lost its marbles (Peter Pan).
Bucky
(53,795 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)Guilt aangst result of gross stupidity
paulkienitz
(1,295 posts)robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)In this version, Steele is Joseph Welch and Perkins is Senator Joseph McCarthy. Perkins, of course, is just the face for an entire movement that has officially jumped the shark. Never again should the Xtian Right have any credibility with mainstream America when they speak.
To which I say, "Good riddance!" and "About fucking time!"
sandensea
(21,526 posts)It's like having one of the Marsalises or Ramsey Lewis play for a Duck Dynasty wedding.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And control.
Me and just about every other liberal I know, knew for decades.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)How the hell can he be a republican????
Anyway, love him.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)perfect.
Neema
(1,151 posts)suddenly so indignant. Evangelicals have had the GOP's balls in their hands for years. Why suddenly now is he noticing? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm glad. It just seems like "well, duh."
KG
(28,749 posts)intheflow
(28,403 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Like when he pretended Sacajawea leading Lewis & Clark was a political act.
czarjak
(11,191 posts)You could be putting your special exemption status in jeopardy.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Most high-profile Trump supporters, Christian or otherwise, are not intellectually honest. If they were, we'd see them explaining what's really behind all this cynical piety: that they want a white man in the White House, that they want conservative Christian values to be codified into law, that they want to hang onto their cash, and that everybody else can go to hell. Perhaps literally.
maxrandb
(15,188 posts)Go Fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit!!!
You built this shitshow. Your deathbed conversion won't save you when the blue 🌊 crashes down on you and your fucking corrupt party.
If you're lucky, we may let you escape jail time