’)Some people wear a hat frontwards, others cocked to the left, he explained. Some wear it backwards, he added, echoing a past statement, “because that’s how they roll.” But “the strength of the party is in this: … the fact that you’re willing to put the damn thing on… The problem we’ve had as a party is: too many of our friends, neighbors, colleagues are taking the hat off, because we’ve decided we don’t like the way they wear it… The GOP is not about how you wear the hat, but the fact that you want to wear the hat.”
Literally everything about Steele is the sort of crap they claimed Dean would do, but never did. (via)
Actually, it’s not a bad analogy.
Palin / Steele 2012 !
I’m trying to be supportive here, but I refuse to wear “the Hat”.
Insert asshat joke here.
too many of our friends, neighbors, colleagues are taking the hat off, because we’ve decided we don’t like the way they wear it
Or maybe they took the hat off because the tinfoil was scratchy.
And some people where a hood.
guessing Steele was wearing his Madness hat when he thought of this
I really don’t know what to say about Steele besides the fact that he is so very much not up to the job. Seriously, getting the GOP’s house in order is just a colossal challenge and Michael Steele is just a rather ordinary stupid man.
“Kickin’ that poo-poo doggy chow!” Part LXIII.
Michael Steele is just a rather ordinary stupid man.
I would not call that an “ordinary” degree of stupid.
And up north we wear the hat to the back cauze that’s how we roll…
Man…dude is a tool….
Yeah, pretty stupid. Give the dude credit though, at least he’s trying. He seems to be the one Republican left these days that isn’t trying to position the party to the right of Bush and the left of Attila the Hun.
…and some people just sh!t in their hats.
Michael, don’t put that one on!
Warned ya.
Parthenon: “Yeah, pretty stupid. Give the dude credit though, at least he’s trying. He seems to be the one Republican left these days that isn’t trying to position the party to the right of Bush and the left of Attila the Hun.”
I think what he would define as a GOP hat is pretty narrow.
In other words, I think this is rhetoric without real inclusiveness behind it.
So, Shooting at the Holocaust Museum Oliver…
Wanna blog about the latest in right wing terror of keep shooting fish in a barrel?
I am reminded of one of the greatest movies ever:
Nina Blackburn: So, guys, what’s the deal with the hats?
Ice Cold: That’s what NWH is all about. We got a whole hat philosophy, you know what I’m saying? I mean, see, back in the days when there was slaves and stuff, they would work in the hot sun all day, you know, with the sun beating down them. Hatless. I mean, not even a babushka.
Tone Def: Word. Heads totally exposed to the sun.
Ice Cold: You know, so by the time they got back to the plantation from being in all the heat, they was too tired to rebel against their masters, right? So what we saying with Niggaz With Hats is, “Yo, we got some hats now, muh-fuckers.”
Tasty Taste: And we ain’t too tired to bust a cap in yo ass.
Reminds me of Rene Magritte “C’est n’est pas un chapeau” (to paraphrase).
Also, if anyone has ever read the first few pages of “The Little Prince” by Saint-Exupery, there is an account of his drawing a picture of a snake digesting an elephant (even more irony here), but people mistake it for a picture of a hat.
When the surreal is normal, I marvel.
Not many ways one can wear a dunce cap.
Is that some sort of Zen bullshit? ‘Cuz I don’t think it’s gonna play in the Heartland©.
So, Shooting at the Holocaust Museum Oliver…
Indeed. Less than 6 months into a democrat in office and domestic terror is up 100%.
For all the folks worried about getting their guns taken away? Stop providing a very good reason to.
Duros: Isn’t calling an increase from 1 to 2 an “increase of 100%” a tad misleading?
No, Frank, I don’t think it is. An increase from 1 to 2 is an increase of 100%.
And what would you have called an increase from 0 to 1?
Right winger “Frank ‘Innumerate’ DiSalle” explains Right Wing Math: “Isn’t calling an increase from 1 to 2 an “increase of 100%” a tad misleading?”
“Duros62 ‘The Corrector’”: “Frank,… An increase from 1 to 2 is an increase of 100%.”
Right winger “Amused Observer”: ‘change the subject, change subject!’
LOL. Instant classic.
You have to wonder whether Steele is just out of his depth or whether he knows he’s being used and is just trying to make the best of it.
I don’t even know how to respond to that.
Ooh, how about this.
lol.
Actually, I would need to agree with Caged Lion, it is a good analogy. Whether Michael Steele can accomplish the implied goal of getting more poeple willing to wear the hat is another discussion entirely, and one not directly addressed in the post.
Well, maybe if you spent less time disapproving of people’s personal choices…
Wait. So they’re selling these hats where?
I support this analogy, only because most people today don’t wear hats.
My fellow Americans, we can dance if we want to.
We can leave your friends behind.
‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance
Well they’re no friends of mine.
It’s not a hat, but one of those ghastly [radio edit] cheap toupees. No, worse – one of those weak-ass comb-overs from someone without the self-respect to shave it to the scalp.
If they shaved the comb over (known in Japan as being ‘Barcode bald’), you’d see that they were becoming skinheads. That or the three sixes on their heads
I can’t read the quote, the ad (or whatever it is) is laying over the top of it and I can’t get rid of it.
Did he acutally say “frontwards”? Heh.