After a contentious and somewhat clownish leadership battle, the Republican National Committee has finally (after six ballots) chosen its next leader: Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele.
Which gives me an excuse to share a little-known factoid: it was actually Steele—not Sarah Palin, not Newt Gingrich, not Rudy Giuliani—who coined the slogan "drill, baby, drill," which is likely to go down in history as the apotheosis of Republican intellectual achievement in the early 21st century.
I was there—it was the third day of the RNC in St. Paul; Steele was one of the introductory speakers. Prior to this the slogan was "drill here, drill now, pay less," which works for a bumper sticker but is too long and complex for the right’s base. It was Steele who freestyled the somewhat more digestible and catchy version.
It obviously caught Palin’s ear, because she repeated it in her speech, and then it took off.
Congratulations, GOP. You’ve chosen well. Or at least appropriately.
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randino Posted 2:10 am
02 Feb 2009
Sleep easy, Democrats. You have nothing to worry about from the Republicans - only yourselves.
randino
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Pompey Road Posted 2:59 am
02 Feb 2009
If this is a republican counter to Obama they really got a good one and he may cancel out the Limbaugh faction.
This guy is for real and a fiscal conservative who may bring back in the Reagan and Blue Dog democrats to the Republican party.
The deficit spending the republicans let King George run up cost them the fiscal conservative sector of the party. That is what makes their argument against the social parts of the economic recovery bill weak. Where the hell were they when Bush was running up a 12 trillion dollar deficit.
He is intelligent and articulate and it would be a mistake to take him lightly. He will not only go after the white base, blue hair and Lawrence Welk set. He will go after everybody from Sinatra to Hip-Hop.
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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prohb Posted 4:10 am
02 Feb 2009
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Russ Posted 6:19 am
02 Feb 2009
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That's liberal racism for you.
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CR Posted 4:16 am
06 Feb 2009
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