Michael Steele Caught Up with Strippers

(Guardian UK) A lot of senior people in the Republican party don’t like Michael Steele, who became the party’s national committee chairman in 2009. And not because he’s African American, either. They don’t like him because he gives the impression of being an idiot in interviews such as this:

Under Mr Steele’s helm, the “old” may seem inappropriate in the Grand Old Party’s affectionate nickname. He said he is putting a new public relations team into place to update the party’s image.

“It will be avant garde, technically,” he said. “It will come to table with things that will surprise everyone – off the hook.”

Does that mean cutting-edge?

“I don’t do ‘cutting-edge,’ ” he said. “That’s what Democrats are doing. We’re going beyond cutting-edge.”