Steele: Republicans don't care about the birther issue. The polls that they say do are wrong.

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With his rise in popularity Donald Trump has now started to have to defend himself against Republicans who think that his focus on the birther issue is going to hurt the party. This includes Karl Rove, who recently called Trump a "joke candidate."

Now you can add former RNC chairman Michael Steele, who appeared on Hardball last night and dismissed the birther issue as "silly," to that list.

"Rank and file Republicans don't give a rat's giblet let about the birther issue."

When Chris Matthews brought up a poll saying that over 50% of Republicans were birthers, Steele dismissed it as not being indicative of the entire party.

"I'm a realist about what the polls represent and I'm not going to extrapolate from one poll that shows 51% of any number, good, bad or indifferent and say that that represents everybody."

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-michael-steele-rove-birther-video-2011-4

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