Michael Steele

Touchy Subject: Steele Slammed For Criticizing GOP's Southern Strategy

Zachary Roth | April 23, 2010, 1:16PM

RNC Chairman Michael Steele

Michael Steele's charge this week that the GOP's southern strategy has "alienated" minority voters may not have provoked as many headlines as a trip by young Republicans to a lesbian bondage club. But in the long run it could cause just as much trouble for him.

During a speech at DePaul University, Steele declared:

For the last 40-plus years we had a "Southern Strategy" that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, "Bubba" went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.

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Michael Steele

Behind The GOP.com Re-Launch: Meet The Writer Steele Used To Buff Party's Image

Zachary Roth | October 14, 2009, 6:37PM

Author of GOP.com "Heroes" section, Michael Zak's homepage

The big GOP.com relaunch has been plagued by technical and other snafus, as we've been documenting. But those mishaps may be the least of it.

The new site is at pains to present the party as racially tolerant, and to stress its anti-slavery history. But Michael Steele and Co. have outsourced that task to a writer who has argued that Democrats' "socialist policies have recreated a vile new version of the slave system."

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