{"id":7025,"date":"2009-03-11T19:07:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2009-03-11T19:07:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:27:18","slug":"blue-steele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7025","title":{"rendered":"Blue Steele"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, I’m really glad that the Republican party picked a pro-choice Republican to serve as RNC chair<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Michael Steele: The choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life, or you can choose abortion. You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think the power of the argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other.<\/p>\n

Lisa DePaulo: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?<\/p>\n

Steele: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that\u2019s an individual choice.<\/p>\n

DePaulo:You do?<\/p>\n

Steele: Yeah. Absolutely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I agree with this wholeheartedly, but that’s because I’m a pro-choice Democrat. The Republican Party is not, last I checked, a pro-choice party. That’s one of the reasons I’m not a part of it. Steele later in the interview seemed to try to walk his statement back (he believes abortion is a right, but that right should be left up to the states, or something), but my guess is that the damage is done here.<\/p>\n

Up to this point, I’ve tended to think that Steele would survive this current rough spot; no matter how incompetent he is, I can’t see the GOP firing its first African-American chair. Easing him out after a year or so? Sure. But firing him? No way.<\/p>\n

After this, though, I think Steele’s days are numbered. No matter how Steele tries to walk this back, he’s on record saying a woman should have a right to choose — a right that the GOP strongly wants to deny women (except, of course, women they know). I think that we’re going to see open rebellion in the anti-choice wing, and I think Steele is probably done for.<\/p>\n

And it’s too bad. Because I think he’s been doing a great job. But again, I’m a Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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