Steele welcomes moderates to GOP, just not their ideas

Politico:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appealed to the political middle Friday to join his party but added that the party itself wouldn't moderate.

"All you moderates out there, y'all come. I mean, that's the message," Steele said at a news conference. "The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front.

"Understand that when you come into someone's house, you're not looking to change it. You come in because that's the place you want to be."

Steele's line reminds me of the usual refrain you hear from gay Republicans who tell you that their Republican coworkers are really nice to them, but their gay friends, less so. Of course, that's because they've betrayed their gay friends for their Republican coworkers. Similar issue here. Steele loves moderate Republicans, provided they betray their principles and work for people, for politics, for ideas they don't endorse or even like. Hell of a bargain.