did the repugs ever think that this guy was actually good for their party?

Steele: Americans don’t trust the GOP because we were ‘getting high’ ‘drinking that Potomac River water.’

Yesterday, RNC Chairman Michael Steele spoke to his party faithful in LaCrosse, WI. Steele tried to claim that moderates were welcome to his “big table” party, but said that in order to join him for dinner, they had to first silence their own opinions and agree with him and other far-right Republicans:

“All you moderates out there, y’all come. I mean, that’s the message,” Steele said at a news conference. “The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front.

“Understand that when you come into someone’s house, you’re not looking to change it. You come in because that’s the place you want to be.“

Steele also talked about why the GOP had fallen out of favor with the American public. It’s not that the country is “less conservative,” he said. “It’s that our credibility with them is shot. It’s that we left them along the side of the road on our way to drinking that Potomac River water, getting high on power and influence and forgetting how we got where we are.”

(Think Progress)

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I mean, I know they made him head of the party after Obama won just because he's black, but do they really think that skin color is all that matters and the only reason anyone liked Obama? It does help that Obama is sane, intelligent, logical, and has good ideas.