Somebody Please Help Out Michael Steele With This Metaphor

By Bob Benenson | June 9, 2009 5:14 PM | | Comments (1)

OK, readers, we need your help making heads or tails of this one.

The Minnesota Independent reports that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, during an appearance at the College Republicans' national convention was reaching for a better metaphor to describe today's Republican Party than "big tent." And what Steele came up with was... a hat.

Yes, a hat.

As the Web site reported (with a link to a YouTube video): "Some people wear a hat frontwards, others cocked to the left, he explained. Some wear it backwards, he added, echoing a past statement, 'because that's how they roll.' But 'the strength of the party is in this: ... the fact that you're willing to put the damn thing on... The problem we've had as a party is: too many of our friends, neighbors, colleagues are taking the hat off, because we've decided we don't like the way they wear it... The GOP is not about how you wear the hat, but the fact that you want to wear the hat.'"

So please, hit that comment button and answer any of the following three questions. Only rules are keep it clean and play nice.

1) What the heck is Steele talking about?

2) In the style of Barbara Walters, if the Republican Party were a hat, what kind of hat would it be?

3) Is there a better metaphor for the GOP circa 2009 than either a "big tent" or a "hat?" Really, there has to be. (We're looking here for a metaphor that the Republicans would want to apply to themselves, though I suspect we'll get some that aren't.)

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  1. It's always fun to kick a man when he's down, I know. For #2, I'd say a dunce cap, for the Bush years. As for #3, it would help if we knew what the party stood for, really, that is.

    Posted by: NObama Author Profile Page | June 9, 2009 6:30 PM

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