{"id":193851,"date":"2008-11-12T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/12\/michael-steel-as-head-of-the-rnc\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T11:07:00","slug":"michael-steel-as-head-of-the-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/12\/michael-steel-as-head-of-the-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Steel as Head of the RNC?????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I clean what I was drinking from the screen.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/11\/gingrich_steele_duel_privately_for_rnc_job.html\">former Maryland Lieutenant Governor and US Senate candidate Michael Steele is looking to chair the RNC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no way to put this delicately.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Steele is stupid&#8230;.Mind bogglingly stupid&#8230;.I mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.net\/stories\/021006\/montsta130223_31925.shtml\">comparing stem cell research to the Holocaust in front of the Baltimore Jewish Council stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think in terms of raw brain power, he&#8217;s probably not <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">that<\/span> stupid, but it&#8217;s clear that he is so convinced of his own wit and genius, that he cannot help but make it worse.<\/p>\n<p>He may not actually <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">be<\/span> stupid, but he has a penchant for <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">doing stupid things<\/span> that buggers the mind.<\/p>\n<p>If he gets the post, I&#8217;m going to need to take up a collection for the popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I clean what I was drinking from the screen. It appears that former Maryland Lieutenant Governor and US Senate candidate Michael Steele is looking to chair the RNC. There is no way to put this delicately. Michael Steele is stupid&#8230;.Mind bogglingly stupid&#8230;.I mean comparing stem cell research to the Holocaust in front &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}