Steele: Sanford, Ensign affairs 'old news, old school'

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele dismissed recent extramarital affairs by two prominent members of his party as "old news, old school" at a GOP dinner in Indianapolis on Wednesday night.

Steele was referring to headline grabbing stories like admissions of infidelity by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Nevada Sen. John Ensign, and suggested he has moved on.

"That's not the generation of candidates I'm trying to groom," Steele said, according to the Indianapolis Star.

Steele said the Republican Party should get back to its small-government roots and listed Republican governors like Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Mitch Daniels of Indiana of Indiana as "laboratories for the ideas we believe in."

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[dethl]

1. Republican's throwing their own under the bus

Grab the popcorn folks, 2010 is going to be a doozy for the 'Pubs.

[Bette Noir]

2. Bobby Jindal? Volcano monitoring?

He's gonna have to do better than that.

[Metta]

3. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Duck and run, eh, Michael?

Talk about having no courage or sense of responsibility.

[Cha]

4. Shouldn't steele be concerned about

"grooming" himself, first?

[Demit]

5. Old School: Mark Sanford, 49. John Ensign, 51. New generation: Haley Barbour, 61; Mitch Daniels, 60

Hahahahahahahaaa! Michael Steele, pathetic idiot whatever age he is.

[No Elephants]

6. For the love of heaven, why must you insist on confusing Steele with facts?

[monmouth]

7. Oh lord, Mikey is going to "groom" people now??? That should

turn out well.

[zbdent]

8. Sanford & Ensign affairs old news ...

now ... here's breaking news about Chappaquiddick, and Marilyn Monroe double-doing JFK & RFK ...

[ananda]

9. Reeps get a free pass, not Dems.

nt

[Wizard777]

10. So married men should be getting their freaky nasty on the DL with some strange.

You've come a long way baby! :rofl:

[AlinPA]

11. I am hoping for Haley Barbour. Please let him run with Palin.

[mitchum]

12. "Groom"...wow...he really is a houseboy