Really, Michael?

For the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up file:

I’m the first one to say that the party, for political expedience and convenience, quite frankly, didn’t do the hard, steady work of building a ground game and a relationship with the voters.

So along comes Barack Obama, he sounds good, he looks great, it’s a beautiful package, and then we had no filler. We had nothing to fall back on.

We couldn’t even argue the basics of the economy in the last election effectively, and it took a happenstance conversation with a plumber before we could really begin to get that groove.

Comedy. Michael Steele is telling us that the Republican Party was adrift, lost, and unable to connect with the voters until they hooked up with a dishonest, uninformed, hypocritic, who attacked the patriotism of others, spewed homophobic garbage, all while admitting how horny he was.

And then they lost another election.

Of course, you can appreciate why Mr. Steele would think such qualities are major selling points - after all, it's like looking into the mirror of today's Republican Party.