A Republican leader who is pro-choice with regards to both life and liberty? That's what it looked like in Michael Steele's interview with GQ magazine, but good thing I didn't hold my breath...it didn't take long for him to swallow his words (again) when conservative Republican's came a 'knockin.
Steele has been decidedly contradictory on these positions, first campaigning for a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion, then in the GQ interview saying its a woman's choice or really, he said it's the states choice to decide if it's the woman's choice (how's that for circumlocution), and then later retracting that statement to say he is definitely pro-life and it should definitely be a federal matter to ban abortions completely.
In terms of gay rights, he said in the GQ interview that it is not a choice to be gay, in fact it's as much of a choice as being black. But he also argued in another interview that it is crazy to let them marry, or to give them rights via civil unions.
This man clearly has some personal issues to work out before he does any more interviews. He's not said anything lately that he hasn't retracted, even the most agreeable statement that sometimes Rush Limbaugh can be "ugly." I'll ditto that.
Unfortunately Steele's time may be up because of these recent outburts of rationality, and the GOP will be back to the drawing board in its search for a leader. I gotta give it to them, they tried real hard to branch out -- looking to a woman and a minority for leadership roles, but it looks like "old, white, male" may still be the winning combination.
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