If it means boosting the economy, then I'm never getting married!

[ck4829]

Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.

Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.

“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.”

http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/377137.asp

If not getting married will boost the economy, then count me in!

Who else is in?

P.S. If you want to get married, then you hate America! So sez Michael Steele. Seriously, I ain't putting words in his mouth, That's really what he said. If you get married then you are putting a strain on America's businesses, so don't get married!

[babylonsister]

1. What a lame, convoluted way for him to come to that conclusion.

If that's really what he means, no one should get married, regardless of who they want to marry.

He's getting creepier the longer he's out there spouting.

[lunatica]

2. His logic is very strange, but I must say it's very consistently strange

He always says stuff like this. It doesn't make sense. Actually it's senseless. There is no sense there. With Michael Steele there is no there there. It's like trying to squeeze a peeled banana. It just squirts out between your fingers and just leaves a mess.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Wha—?

As Ned Flanders once said: "As melon-scratchers go, that's a honeydew-dler!" Does the DNC have a site up refuting all Steele's weird quotes (like they have for Michelle Bachmann, the OTHER RP yammering assclown)?

Heavens what an idiot. His quotes have a Yogi Berra-ish quality of special absurdness. I cannot imagine why he is, where he is. His speeches are so bizarre that after a while the audience looks like a dandruff convention, for even members of his own Republic™ Party cannot but scratch their heads.

By all means, Steele, keep talking!