What a dolt!

I just saw the comments made by Michael Steele, chairman of the RNC about Rand Paul and his comments on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I have been a supporter of Steele for a long time. I helped in his campaign for governor of Maryland and I supported his election as chair of the RNC, but this is just the last straw as far as I am concerned. Steele is a dolt!

There have been a number of things done by the RNC under Steele's leadership that have been, shall we say, deficient. Steele always seems to have something to say or do that embarrasses the party. To be fair, the media is waiting constantly to point out anything bad that Steele does. After all, it ruins the media narrative to have a black Republican, so they clearly want to destory him. Unfortunately, Steel is cooperating all too well in this effort.

Steele's comments criticizing Rand Paul for his views about the civil rights act are another foot in mouth exercise by Steele. Paul engaged in a philosophical discussion about the underpinnings of part of the civil rights act and expressed the libertarian viewpoint that the government needs to stay out of individual decisions. When the media portrayed that as Paul being in favor of repealing the civil rights act, he corrected this and made clear that he was not in favor of repeal. Still, the media danced a jig of glee because they now had a candidate supported by the tea party who was a "racist" since he wanted to repeal the civil rights act. The truth made no difference; the liberal blogosphere went crazy and the media went along with it.

So what does Steele do? Instead of saying just that Paul has made clear that he does not support repeal of the civil rights act and leaving it at that, Steele first has to criticize Paul for the initial comment and then point out the correction. Sadly, Steele still has not learned that his job is not meant to make himself look good. His job is to elect Republicans. So, for Steele to jump on the ambush bandwagon to try to get Paul is idiotic in the extreme. He ought to be removed from his office in my opinion. the upcoming elections are too important for the RNC to be led by someone like Steele.