How did they pick Michael Steele?

Michael Steele gives an interview to GQ that is, once again, amazing. He's all over the map, seeming both off the proper seriousness and off message. (Check out the priest section where he talks about his old love life and his belief that homosexuality is nature and he shouldn't challenge that.)

Or this,

Q: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?

Steele: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.

Maybe we should take it as a measure of just how desperate the Republicans are that they are finding these unknowns and thrusting them forward?

Later: Blowback begins over the "choice" statement.

And, (TPM) This interview was actually conducted weeks ago, before Steele talked himself into all his other troubles.