Jul 5, 2010 11:44pm
Should RNC’s Michael Steele Resign?
EmailWith mid-term elections bearing down, the Republican party faces a difficult decision regarding RNC chair Michael Steele. Last week, Steele called the American involvement in Afghanistan — which began in 2001 — "a war of Obama's choosing" and said everyone who has waged war there for a thousand years has failed. Republican Sen. John McCain, appearing on "This Week" with Jake Tapper, called the remarks "wildly inaccurate" but stopped short of calling for his resignation. Other prominent Republicans disagree. So tonight, we ask: Should Steele step down for his remarks? Tell us what you think. Embedded below is video of the Steele comments now fueling the controversy.
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DO NOT Resign Mr Steele.
Matter of fact get our Military Home and Protect OUR borders.
Obama, take a flying leap.
You go over there and fight the losing battle.
Posted by: Jim McBride | July 6, 2010, 12:11 am 12:11 am
Yes, Steele should resign.
Posted by: Brenda Stevenson | July 6, 2010, 12:11 am 12:11 am
No way Mr. Steele should resign, he has a right to his own opinion….we have much bigger things at issue than to worry about opinion that happens to have some legs…..
Posted by: cantbreeth | July 6, 2010, 12:11 am 12:11 am
YES, Steele should resign!!
Posted by: Willie Dale | July 6, 2010, 12:13 am 12:13 am
Michael Steele should resign! The Republicans don’t need more embarrassment. First Sarah Palin and now Michael Steele!
Posted by: Karen R. Hundley | July 6, 2010, 12:14 am 12:14 am
We pay this guy ? What a embarrassment to the Republican party ! But what should one suspect anymore. When a nations at war espcially… go figure. Was he drunk ?
Posted by: Toolman | July 6, 2010, 12:14 am 12:14 am
NO…Please stay!! You are the true voice of the Republican party!! Not to worry! Rush will be back on the air tomorrow! he will spin this for you!
Please stay! WE need in in November!
Posted by: skybo | July 6, 2010, 12:14 am 12:14 am
Can’t we just respect a person’s right to their own opinion? Let his constituents decide.
Posted by: Louis Mogel | July 6, 2010, 12:19 am 12:19 am
Absolutely Michael Steele should resign or be fired.
Posted by: HB | July 6, 2010, 12:27 am 12:27 am
No steele should not resign…Sure he didnt back up his party but obuma did promise during his presidential campaign that he would have the troops home in 8 months and were almost at midterm elections so it definitely is a war of obumas choosing even if he wasnt the reason for the inception of the war.
Posted by: TJ | July 6, 2010, 12:37 am 12:37 am
The point here is whether the
Afgan war was of Obama’s choosing? Of course not. He inherited it. What did Steele expect him to do? Drop out of it immediately he took office? Give the President a break. And Mr. Seele, get your facts right before you speak. You should be fired.
Posted by: Jay R | July 6, 2010, 12:44 am 12:44 am
Yes, Steele should be fired! What happened to 9/11? Did the GOP forget why we are in Afghanistan? If “W” had not jumped ship and went back to Iraq on lies, oil and money, we just might already be finished in Afghanistan. Another example of the GOP making it up as they go.
Posted by: George1911 | July 6, 2010, 12:53 am 12:53 am
NO, this is our right TO SAY WHAT WE THINK, even about the people in office. It was not Obama’s choosing it came with the job. But, Mr. Steele should have thought more about what he said. Everyone says something wrong at times.GEE get on to what matter to most of us like putting people back to work…. how my kids are going to feed their kids and keep a roof over their heads. where are the good old reporter, are there any left????
Posted by: vickie | July 6, 2010, 1:35 am 1:35 am
No, he should not resign. He’s stating his opinions. Would that all politicians tell their truth and not be so concerned with backing a party line regardless of the rightness, wrongness, stupidity, or deception of such a line. Maybe we then could have something besides a smoke and mirrors government.
Posted by: MD | July 6, 2010, 3:17 am 3:17 am
We did go to Afghanistan after 9/11, but the fighting there was also put on the back burner. It seems to me that the nation had this discussion about nine years ago. The generals wanted the advantage of choosing the terrain and the Afghan terrain was not favorable to foreign invaders.(We had helped make those tunnels in the mountains.) Am sure many things went into the decision to take the fight to Iraq and make the enemy come to us. As far as I’m concerned Obama did declare this was his war when he insisted on leaving the Iraqi’s to their squabbles and went back to taking on the enemy in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Jeanette "Mitchell" Mullen | July 6, 2010, 3:37 am 3:37 am
No. The Republicans put him in for the wrong reason. They thought he would bring African Americans to the Republican party and away from President Obama. Now they have to live with their foolishness.
Posted by: Dorothy | July 6, 2010, 4:02 am 4:02 am
This “calling for his/her resignation” crap got old a long time ago, and is now crippling any real discussion of the actual issues facing our country.
Steele should say “I got caught up in this stupid national political game that requires me to fiercely oppose every single thing every single politician on the other side of this political game says or does. The stupid game then requires those on the other side to churn up as much comically righteous indignation as possible and call for a solution that has even less grasp with reality than my comments did in the first place.”
“I should have praised President Obama for his political bravery in hiring a General that a destructively partisan groups from his party so fiercely opposed when that General served in a nearly identical capacity under a President from the other party. Perhaps the only reason I would consider resigning would be that in today’s mis-guided spirit of escalated partisanship, I demeaned our nation’s soldiers. There is no war that our young men and women in the military can’t win, and it is to them that I offer my most humble and heartfelt apology. There is NO political battle that should ever question the resolve of those people who put their lives on the line to defend our right to say outageous and stupid things every day. And it is to them that I say ‘I am sorry’ for abusing that right.”
Posted by: Ron | July 6, 2010, 5:13 am 5:13 am
YES_YES_YES!
Posted by: wvason | July 6, 2010, 7:24 am 7:24 am
OK, to begin with , I was receiving solicitations for the Obama Campaign before he became President I have no idea of how he got my e-mail, but he did. His campaign promises then led me to vote for him. As far as I’m concerned, Michael Steel only told it like it is, you can do the homework yourself. The Russians tried, the British tried, and according to the internet, so did Ghengis Kahn, he went home too.
Michael Steele should seek his party’s nomination for president. If he should recieve the nomination and win and Obama is his Opposition, then I’ll stand with the 20% that voted for Obama and then I shall vote REPUBLICAN
Posted by: Jackson | July 6, 2010, 8:18 am 8:18 am
Yes. And, if he doesn’t just resign in disgrace, then he should be impeached.
Posted by: Proud Native American and Angry Independent Voter | July 6, 2010, 11:58 am 11:58 am
Get over it! Steele WON”T resign……. and he shouldn’t. He’s the gift that keeps on giving to the democrats!!
Posted by: wow | July 6, 2010, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
Once again Michael Steele continues to embarrass Republicans and delight the Democrats. By now it is obvious to all that he is a double agent working for the Democratic party. He is doing just what he needs to remind us all that the Republican party is totally out of touch.
Posted by: Mariah | July 6, 2010, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm
Once again Michael Steele embarrasses the Republicans and delights the Democrats. Aren’t we all to assume that Steele is a double agent working for the Democrats?
He is doing such a wonderful job of showing the world just how out of touch the Republicans are.
Posted by: Mariah | July 6, 2010, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm