March 2nd, 2009
01:23 PM ET
6 years ago

GOP chairman says he leads party, not Rush Limbaugh

 Steele says he is the leader of the GOP.
Steele says he is the leader of the GOP.



And Steele described Limbaugh as a performer.








But a top Republican in Congress disagreed.






Filed under: Rush Limbaugh
soundoff (1,100 Responses)
  1. Joe

    Rush needs to pop a couple of his favorite pills and mellow out.

    March 2, 2009 12:38 pm at 12:38 pm |
  2. roland

    I'm glad finally someone speack before Rush causes more pain to the party.

  3. WeThePeopleOfVA

    The only people recognizing Limbaugh as the leader of the GOP are the Democrats and Liberal Media. If Limbaugh leads the GOP, then Pelosi, Read, Frank and Dodd are in charge of the Demsocrats. It's all propaganda . . . wake up America.

  4. Jason

    If he's just an entertainer why give him a keynote speech at CPAC?

  5. david

    Limbaugh is a traitor to this country and a self absorbed pig.

  6. RushisRight

    Much better than tax us into oblivion and lead us to socialism Obama. Given a choice, I will take Limbaugh any day.

    Thank you Obama for the Change in the stock market, your wisdom has sent it below 7000! Goodie! I Hope you are booted soon! Thats Change I can believe in!

  7. Chas in Iowa

    Just because you say it's so,...doesn't mean it is so.

    Unfortunetely I believe most of the party is following dopey.

  8. jb

    You are so right Had It. This guy setting himself up as the opposite of Limbaugh/Rove/Coulter is really crafty and you are intelligent enough to see thru this puppet. I really love the way you think, could you post some more.

  9. Big Ed

    Either way, the Republican Party is in a deep, dark hole.

  10. Jim

    Limbaugh is dangerously unpatriotic.

    March 2, 2009 12:39 pm at 12:39 pm |
  11. mel

    the leaders of the GOP may be trying to cleverly craft their image by electing steele, but the actual party members have made clear their choice: the racist, bigoted, misogynist, anti-american one-man lynch mob that is limbaugh. i gave his speech a fair shot. when he called the entire democratic party "the enemy," his status as a traitor was secured.

  12. uncle Tom

    LOL!!! He really believes hes the face of that party. ILMAO!! okay in 2010 when he doesnt succeed in bringing over blacks and latinos, he will be on the outside lookin in again.

  13. yuri

    Voila! Steele has contemplated stealin' our hearts by almost lickin' Limbaugh hollow, for starters. We did watch Limbaugh's loud lashes like lightning strikes at the liberals, but number quotin' was naive, and nihilistically negative. Frankly, a chill crawled up on our spines when a large gathering was clamoring at everything he simply muttered aloud, like a cult figure.

  14. BC

    The GOP had better do something real to distance themselves from people like Limbaugh and the extreme right wing or they will continue to have normal Americans desert their party and find a new home with the Democrats. Not only are normal Americans not overly interested in protecting the rights of rapists' unborn children or owning a machine gun, but they are getting sick of the mean spirited attitude of the right wing.

  15. Patty in CA

    Like one is better than the other?????

  16. Curious George

    I'm curious- that suddenly the GOP chairman is an African American. Would this be the case if the new president was Caucasian? Just like the GOP response to President Obama's speech was given by a man of color. Is the GOP trying to portray a new image with new puppets? But in reality it is still the same GOB network oops.. I mean GOP network. Hmm... Just curious!!!!

  17. if you ask me....

    Rush Limbaugh a leader? PUL-EASE. I love the direction Mr. Steele is leading the Party. I'm not interested in following Rush down the tubes. LEAD ON, Mr. Steele.

  18. David S.

    Well this ticks me off. At least Rush has the courage to depict the evils of the Obama socialist agenda. We are in a war for our country where the Democrats are attempting to infuse government control into every aspect of our lives. Michale needs to recharge conservatism into what it is supposed to be not what Bush and his neocons morphed it into.

  19. Kim

    Wait for it... Michael Steele groveling apology to Rush Limbaugh...3.. .2...1...

  20. Russ

    Limbaugh leads. This steele guy is a joke.

  21. TT

    Steele is just a smoke screen he does not run anything he is
    running in it. Just another face, but we already know who is
    running the side show!

  22. turn the other cheek

    Who cares about any of them. They are all evil anyway. I will never cease to pray for OUR PRESIDENT and his family.

  23. Pete from austin , Tx.

    Steele you may think that you're the head of the republican party but the biggest cheers and applause went to people like Limbaugh and Coulter. You invited those people to the party and now you have to dance with them. Anyone that paid attention to CPAC see's the mindset of the members and it's is downright scairy. It is party first and the heck with anything else. You may be citizens but you're not Americans.

  24. john

    Now you'll have to go apologize on his radio show like that other spineless congressman...

  25. JWMII

    awwwwwwwwwwwwww Michael Steele actually thinks he is running things in the GOP. Man, he has been duped!!!!!

    NEWSFLASH MICHAEL STEELE: All they needed was your face just to combat the notion of GOP ethnic/racial homogeny in light of significant social events involving the election of a black president.
