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Sockless Joe says:

Anybody who read the Gentry Collins memo (no relation, unfortunately) should want Steele gone.

I initially favored Steele when he ran for chair, but soured on him as of July.

Hermit Dave says:

In the future, any “conservative” that tries to play the race card should be locked in a room for 15 minutes with a tribunal of Clarence Thomas, Alan West, and Thomas Sowell wielding baseball bats.

Steamboat McGoo says:

And – unlike when someone criticizes a Dem black…

This is NOT racism. It is an assertion of lack of competence. Steele is a fuckup which most folk figured out the first month he was in business as NRC leader, and his melanin content has nothing to do with it. He could be a glossy-skinned albino, and he’s still be a galactic numbnutted douchbag.

Incompetence and total fuckuppityiness has no color…as we’ve learned repeatedly in the past. Why, melanin can inhabit the greatest of geniuses just as easily as it can your typical, run-of-the-mill, garden variety liberal goat fucking asshole or average Massachusetts dweller.

Veeshir says:

That’s the thing, everybody supported him for that post and then he immediately starting screwing it up.
He seemed so good when he was in MD too.

Mark E says:

“He did preside over a huge change in seats – you can always argue that he could have gotten more, but the GOP definitely did very well in the last election”

There is a big difference between — leading the way during a huge change vs. being around when a huge change is going on (either by being oblivious to what is happening, or by working quietly and “facilitating change”).

Those situations can be considered admirable and are appropriate for the leader of a major organization

I would put Steele in a third category — getting in the way of the huge change and doing almost everything possible to prevent it.