Romney spokesman on Steele: ‘Sometimes when you shoot from the hip, you miss the target.’

Last week, ThinkProgress reported that while guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show on Friday, RNC chair Michael Steele appeared to call the GOP base bigoted, saying that Republican voters rejected Mitt Romney’s presidential bid because he is Mormon:

But remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life. It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism.

Listen here:

Today, Romney’s team fired back. “Sometimes when you shoot from the hip, you miss the target,” said spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom. “This is one of those times.” At RealClearPolitics, Jay Cost also said that Steele should resign, and RedState’s Erick Erickson responded, “I vote ‘no confidence’ in Michael Steele.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/romney-responds-steele/

Audio tape at link.

Michael Steele would greatly improve his odds of avoiding gaffes if he were to simply keep his mouth shut.

Well, they're right. Steele should know his place. He's just a token minority put into power by the rich, old men who really run the party because they were stupid enough to think that would appeal to minorities. He's not supposed to talk or come up with ideas or anything. He's just supposed to sit there and look black. The lame brains deserve what they get.