Michael Steele is completely f**king nutz.....

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Steele Forces College Republicans To Participate In A 10-Minute Demonstration Of His Infamous Hat Metaphor

Appearing on MSNBC in April, RNC Chairman Michael Steele unveiled a strange metaphor to highlight his view of Republican Party regional inclusiveness. Steele asked Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan to pretend they were all wearing hats that said “GOP” and for the purposes of the demonstration, they all hailed from different parts of the country. Steele then explained:

STEELE: In the Midwest, you guys like to wear it a little bit to the right. In the South, you guys wear the brim straight ahead. Now the Northeast, I wear my hat backwards, you know, ’cause that’s how we roll in the Northeast.

At the College Republican annual conference this past weekend, Steele again deployed the same exercise to teach students about embracing Republicans, regardless of “how they wear their hat.” Steele asked four College Republicans to stand up and simulate wearing a hat “that very boldly says GOP.” After lecturing on how each imaginary hat would could be worn differently, Steele proclaimed, “The problem we had is that too many of our friends, neighbors, colleagues, family members, are taking the hat off because we have decided we don’t like the way they wear it.” While the bewildered students stood in front of the crowd obediently for nearly ten minutes, Steele eventually concluded:

STEELE: Let me ask you, what do they have in common? They’re all wearing the same hat. (…) The difference is, Barack Obama has asked your generation to wear his hat, his hat - the hat of one man. I’m asking you to go out and ask your friends to wear our hat – the hat of an idea.

ThinkProgress attended the conference and caught the demonstration on video. Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/09/steele-gop-hat/


Unconvinced by Steele’s unified hat theory, several College Republicans expressed their concern that the GOP establishment was moving to shut out fellow Republican Marco Rubio in favor Charlie Crist in the Florida Senate primary. Asked by one attendee about how to deal with RINOs (Republicans in name only), Steele replied, “I don’t know what that is. I’m just being honest with you.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/09/steele-gop-hat/

[FSogol]

1. Poor little College Repugs, they need someone to tell them who to hate.

Steele only offers them confusing metaphors and asks them to like each another.

[tridim]

2. He's an ass-hat. nt

[thereismore]

3. The Mad Hatter. nt

[AndyA]

4. Note to Michael Steele:

America has seen "your hat." We saw it for 8 years.

It was rather cheaply made, imported no doubt from a communist country that uses child slavery to make cheap things for Americans.

The dye used to color your hat was toxic, and made people sick and killed our pets.

Your hat didn't fit very well, either. We were told that's the way hats are supposed to fit, but some of us had better sense and knew that wasn't true.

If anyone chose to wear your hat in a manner different than what we were told was the correct way, they were labeled anti-American or terrorists.

Your hat cost a lot more than it was worth.

Thanks, but no thanks, Mr. Steele. You can keep your hat. :puke:

[busybl]

13. wonderful post AndyA nt

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Damn, I really miss Steve Gilliard at times like this. . .

The late legendary blogger pegged Steele for an assclown years ago:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/2/20/83122/7770

[mikeytherat]

6. "Hat Too Flat"

"Hat too Flat" by Walter Becker

We come in on the morning scan
All the way from far Arcturus
Bringing with us peace and good will
From the margins of space and time
Our women are slung down low to the ground
They're very good you've probably had one
Our men are brave, studly and wise,
A pleasure to behold
Right away we walk the walk
More or less we talk the talk
But every time we make our play
Their eyes get wide they run away

'Cause the hat stays too flat
My hat is way too flat
My English she is much better now
But my hat remains too flat
The man smells a rat
And that's the end of that
My English it is more better now
But my hat is still too flat

Fair Arcturus Fashion forecast:
Skirts will be shorter
Legs stay long
Virtual raincoats are coming back
Hats as always continued flat

Back at home the machines work hard
We folk like to take it easy
Honing our awareness of
The finer things of life
Here when I go down to my job
I work hard for what seems like a long time
I look at my watch: fifteen minutes
It felt like half a day!
Soon enough we break for lunch
Me and the boys now I'm one of the bunch
But no one wants to sit with me
So tell me what can the matter be?

The hat stays too flat
My hat is way too flat
My English she is much better now
But the hat is just too flat
A little thing like that
They don't get past the hat
My English it is more better now
But my hat remains too flat

mikey_the_rat

[Ganja Ninja]

7. "what do they have in common? They’re all wearing the same hat."

And that hat is an ass hat. And the heads that fill them are shit heads.

[Iris]

8. yes, I want to wear the hat of failed ideas!

that sounds great! yo!yo! Michael Steele.

what a dumb ass.

[MisterP]

9. he's turning into Michael Scott: "I AM HERE TO SCARE YOU STRAAAAIGHT!" n/t

[lxlxlxl]

10. "A hat of ideas"? ?? HAHAHAHAHAH

oh lol

i almost choked

[hootinholler]

11. Obviously they don't have a sorting hat.

Mike, I thought I'd never say that I'm loving that voodoo that you do so well.

Did his hat have a scarlet R on it?

-Hoot

[TZ]

12. He's so clueless

Hasn't changed a bit from when he was lieutenant governor of Maryland and tried to convince a true blue state that he was "different" from other republicans..:eyes:

[Swamp Rat]

14. good-goobiddy doowap zipzap!

[Orsino]

15. I'd like to see Joe & Mika pretend they *aren't* wearing GOP hats. n/t