Steele Website's Image Gallery Hints At Long Re-Election Campaign

As you no doubt already know, RNC Chair Michael Steele has decided to buck the conventional wisdom (that he is a terrible chair of the RNC) and run for a second term. To that end, he has launched a "Re-elect Chairman Steele" website aiming to emphasize an RNC that is "Better, Stronger, and Prouder" as opposed to "Poorer, Tainted by Scandalous Debt, All But Replaced By American Crossroads, and Constantly Laughed At By Everybody."

Liz Mair today reports on an interesting thing about this website: Its images directory is viewable online. Says Mair:

Ooh, the temptation of finding secret pictures of Michael Steele himself partying in a lesbian-bondage-themed Hollywood night club!

Not so fast... the thousands (I'm guessing-- review the screenshots way, way below and judge for yourself) of images are actually interesting in a rather different way, namely insofar as they seem to rebut an assertion being made by Steele and his folks prior to the election. That whole Fire Pelosi! bus tour was supposed to be solely about helping Republican candidates across the country, right? It wasn't at all supposed to a stealth Steele re-election tour, right?

Wrong... or at least its purpose as between then and now has morphed. Pretty much every picture I opened (and I didn't open them all because I have work to do and things) is of Steele on the tour. And, of course, they're sitting in the images directory of his re-election website.

Here's what I think is extraordinary about this. It's easy enough to document the moments over the past two years that have caused many, many hundreds of people to call for Steele's resignation. But now Steele counters with a coffee table book's worth of images that depict himself doing things that cause no discernible harm to the RNC. It really rebuts the contention that the naked eye of human beings never captured such a thing, so points to Steele.

Anyway, if you've ever wanted to start a blog called "Pictures Of Michael Steele Looking At Stuff," it's your time to shine. (If you'd just like to take a tour through the images, click here.)

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What's in Michael Steele's images directory for his re-elect site? [Liz Mair]

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Comments

[ObamAtomic]

10:17 PM on 12/15/2010

Where is the love Steele.

[freedomsxm]

01:01 PM on 12/15/2010

This is going to be bigger than Saturday Night live....The GOP will be on full display...I bet Mike will end up even playing the race card as he turns on his master's....the sad part is this should have taken place before the recent election....however, it's still going to make for interesting television...

[jsgaetano]

12:30 PM on 12/15/2010

You stay the course, Hiphop Mike!

[kareemachan]

11:18 AM on 12/15/2010

I imagine his re-election plans will involve more money to the Marianas and Guam...

Oops! He already did grease that wheel:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/22/rnc-sends-15000-to-guam_n_772227.html

[polkarde]

07:15 AM on 12/15/2010

Running for election for the GOP Chairmanship, is just like re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic...either way, this ship is going...down...down!!

[chanook106]

07:05 AM on 12/15/2010

Steele will undoubtedly use the fact that the Republicans made huge gains this year as proof that he's been an effective chair. I say that they won in spite of him not because of him. His many gaffes and financial improprieties nearly crippled the RNC ability to raise funds from individuals. Maybe he can be the next Wayne Brady and move into the entertainment biz.

[chanook106]

07:06 AM on 12/15/2010

Fanned and faved. A lot of people have forgotten about King's rap sheet.

[Califishing]

02:48 AM on 12/15/2010

GOP,,,RNC,,,RNC,,we all we got. Mike Steele....Your services are no longer required. Get to steppin..

[Peanut Santiago]

01:34 AM on 12/15/2010

Steele is a fool. Doesn't he get it that he is NOT wanted?

Personally, I don't care. He is a Republican problem.

However, it is kind of sickening to watch him debase himself when it is obvious his party wants him gone.

[LogicalMathMan]

12:10 AM on 12/15/2010

Nothing sells better than having your pic taken with Don King.

[astroblower]

12:32 AM on 12/15/2010

Just think if Steele did a sex tape with Michele Bachman.

I know I'd pay to download it.

[LogicalMathMan]

12:43 AM on 12/15/2010

LMAO and ewwww! Don't know who repulsed me more.

[kareemachan]

11:20 AM on 12/15/2010

You should be ashamed for putting images like that in my head!

;-)

[blackhole2008]

11:23 PM on 12/14/2010

They sent Steele to Guam, and toPueblo, CO; and he thinks he can be re-elected.

[henrypapillon]

10:09 PM on 12/14/2010

He led them to an astounding victory and THEY want to replace him?

[Green Knight]

03:10 AM on 12/15/2010

It was Karl Rove's 501c groups that won the elections. The RNC is no longer a power in fundraising because the money that goes through there is regulated and subject to disclosure laws.

[henrypapillon]

09:19 AM on 12/15/2010

Now, you can SAY that it was Karl Rove, but you cannot prove that.

[only livin boy in NY]

09:59 PM on 12/14/2010

oh please go to the mats mikey

[kaptaintripps]

09:40 PM on 12/14/2010

The dumb@$$ actually thinks all that foreign and corporate money flooding in to elect all these ReThugs makes HIM look good! Lol.

[henrypapillon]

10:12 PM on 12/14/2010

Hey, they won big on HIS watch. You can't argue with success.

[kaptaintripps]

10:15 PM on 12/14/2010

You are really dense, henry. Sorry to say it...but you are really, REALLY DENSE.