Candidates for RNC chairman reject marriage equality

Each of the candidates running to lead the Republican National Committee say they favor restricting legal marriage to opposite-sex couples. "I don't believe anybody should be denied dignity in this discussion, everyone should be loved. But at the end of the day, I believe that marriage -- through the sanctity of marriage -- should be between one man and one woman," said Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman, who is considered a front-runner for the national position. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele earlier promised the National Organization for Marriage that the GOP would work to stop marriage equality.

Michael Steele accuses Obama administration of planning to "rig the Census"

In an official statement today from Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, he says that "it seems the Obama Administration has plans to rig the Census results," because the group ACORN has been chosen to partner with the Census Bureau to help determine population counts.

Accusing the Obama administration of rigging the Census? That really seems beyond the pale, doesn't it?

Michael Steele's had a history of gaffes in his short tenure as RNC chairman but this is just really out there.