Michael Steele on MSNBC: 'Abhorrent' That GOP Declined MLK Invitations

[Tx4obama]

Michael Steele on MSNBC: ‘Abhorrent’ That GOP Declined MLK Invitations

Chris Matthews opened his 7pm show Thursday evening by looking at the lack of Republican representation at yesterday’s March on Washington 50th anniversary event. Contrary to popular belief, all Republican members of Congress, including Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), were invited to at least attend the commemoration. All declined.

“The reason the Republican Party wasn’t represented yesterday at the King reunion at the Lincoln Memorial,” Matthews said, “is that the Republican Party no more longer represents Abraham Lincoln.” For more insight on the matter, Matthews welcomed former RNC chairman Michael Steele and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) to discuss how the “old segregationist” Democrats have been replaced by “Dixiecrats pretending to be Republicans.”

“Quite frankly,” Steele said, “not showing up to that event yesterday to me was abhorrent.” He described how disappointing it was for Republicans “to not be there in that moment, to look America in the eye and complete that leap, that forward progress for the American people, and to say to the African-American community, that we have made missteps in the last 50 years, but we stand here united with you in the journey forward in the life and times of Dr. King.”

Speaking about the generational shift in the GOP, Edwards said “when the party changed, blacks decided we needed to go to a place where we were welcome and where we were at home; where somebody spoke to the agenda of things that were of concern to us. And right now the Republican Party just doesn’t.”

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Full article and VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/michael-steele-on-msnbc-abhorrent-that-gop-declined-mlk-invitations/

[NightWatcher]

1. Psst Michael. The repukes dont like black people, they were using you.

[spanone]

2. he's in denial.

[SidDithers]

5. Exactly...

"Hey buddy, we've got a good job for you."

Sid

[NightWatcher]

6. His name is even Token.

Hey Token, give me a smooth baseline.
I don't know how to play the bass.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Yep. n/t

[radicalliberal]

12. But he's far better than that race traitor Clarence Thomas.

At least he's speaking out now.

Of course, as a 63-year-old white guy who grew up in one of the stauchest Republican congressional districts in the country (the one in Texas that once was represented by Bush The First, whom I now detest for appointing Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court), I could have told him some truth; namely, that this district of "good" Republicans was a hotbed of racial hatred. I was a junior in high school when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Most of my classmates were either conservative Republicans or Wallace supporters. I knew of only two liberals among them. To this day I remember their reaction to his death. There was more jubilation then than there was when school let out for the summer. No wonder I'm not a conservative!

[Thinkingabout]

3. It is a sad day in America when the GOP has been taken control by the TP and Dixiecrats who

Hate people of color. They do not have anything to offer but have a base they play to which displays so much hate they are unable to see any good. I am disappointed they hide behind Christianity, my Jesus did not teach this hate, he taught love and compassion for all.

[Cha]

4. K&R! thanks Tx. Steele was right.. it was abhorrent.. they've thrown Abraham

Lincoln and themselves under the bus.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. I'm trying to imagine the letters & phone calls he gets from closet Republicans begging him to stay.

As bad as it is for progressives, sane conservatives must be in a living hell.

[freshwest]

13. Nah, the pay is great. I'll listen to Steele when he turns into a Democrat.

[Left Coast2020]

9. They didn't show up because the're too busy rigging the voting laws.

Plus, Boner was probably busy playing golf somewhere.

[mbperrin]

10. It's easy - current Republicans are the worst people who ever lived.

Period.

[Mira]

11. I really like how you summed that up. n't

[freshwest]

14. Tweety nails it: '...the Republican Party no more longer represents Abraham Lincoln.' n/t