Further controversy has emerged over the past 2 days because in an interview with GQ he suggested that abortion is an “individual choice” and that he doesn’t think a constitutional amendment is the right avenue for conservatives to take. He’s been on damage control trying to walk that comment back ever since, but it’s a bit too late to prevent Mike Huckabee, several pro-life groups, and Ken Blackwell, one of his competitors for the RNC job, from harshly criticizing him.

As for the 20th congressional district race, if anyone is interested in helping the Democrats hold that seat, they should join NYU Students Organizing for America’s Facebook group, because we’ll soon announce our finalized plans to phone bank for and then travel up to canvass for Scott Murphy, the Democrat running to replace Gillibrand.

The weird thing about Steele’s CQ comments is that he didn’t seem to be entirely clear on what he was saying. In the same interview, he suggested that abortion was both an individual choice and a decision best left up to the states. Sure both of those ideas are in opposition to a pro-life constitutional amendment, but paired together they don’t make a whit of sense.

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Midterm election!
I am an independent .
Beings we do not have a viable candidate i usually vote republican.
We need an electable republican candidate for president for the 2012 election.
I think this will aide candidates in the midterm election to see where we are going.

In the 2008 Election my friends in Utah, Arizona and Missouri who are ind., rep. and demo. either voted straight demo. or voted against Paylin.
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Mr. Steele stepped into a hornets nest of a party whose future is quickly fading. This once great party has become little more than a group old white people whose ideas are tied to an America that no longer exists. It lost most of its credibility over the past 8-years. It can no longer boast that it is fiscally conservative after it voted to allow its leaders to spend this country into trillion dollar deficits. Yet it has not been honest with the American people about that fact and instead tries to portray the current president as the culprit and as a Socialist. If it spent half of its time apologizing and then rolling up its sleeves and working with the new president to help get this country back on the right track instead of being the party of ‘NO’.

It has in effect casting tiself as the anti American party full of bs and double speak something the country has no need of and can see through the facade. It must rid itslf of the fanatics and fringe right wing groups that has seized it by the throat and is killing itself and the party in a perilous death grip. It must reinvent itself with honesty, sincerety and rid itself of the perception of the party that is home to racist and kick out the Rush Limbaughs and others who espouse racism and hatred to once again be considered main stream.. It must rid itself of being considered the surrogate of all things right wing such as the NRA and the rich. Its option otherwise is to become irrelevant and insignificant in the eyes of main stream political thought.

Those old worn out slogans of the past no longer draws the attention of the greater American public but only the irrational, uneducated fringe of society. In many cases this party will not, can not draw the segments of our society who is now educated and more sophisticated than ever before, people who SEE, READ and vote with common sense and looks for fairness from its leaders. We don’t want a leader who is one of the boys or girls that we go out and drink with we want educated leaders who aren’t bullies or braggarts who can work with not intimidate all he or she comes into contact.

We also know that Michael Steele is only window dressing and this party is not ready to embrace real diversity, equality and fairness.