As usual, a warning: Politics be here!

So beware!

I’m old enough, and have perhaps wasted far too much time on following the ebbs and flows of politics, to recall when Michael Steele was chair of the Republican Party.  When he was in that capacity, he would come on TV and often make what to me were incredibly asinine comments in defense of the Republican Party.

To put it bluntly: He made my blood boil.

Now, I should have taken those comments that so inflamed me back then with the proverbial grain of salt.  While chair of the RNC, it was his job to defend the Republican Party and therefore some of those crazy (again, IMHO) statements were probably made for the cameras but which he may well not have believed in.

Now that he’s no longer the chair of the RNC, he’s become one of my favorite pundits on TV.  His comments/opinions have been, it would seem now, to come from a far more honest place.  He’s willing to criticize both sides equally and, at least whenever I catch him, talks with a combination of wit, humor, and refreshing bluntness.

His latest comments given toward the end of this segment of MSNBC’s Hardball, regarding evangelical leaders, is particularly right on target (sorry for the stupid add for a CNN clip that hides his face):

Preach, brother.

Preach.