Memo to Steele: Using the words “little cock” is never a good idea unless you’re trying to make people laugh.

HOST: A lot of House Republicans and others in the party are sort of unhappy with him, what are your thoughts on that?

STEELE: Well, I think, I watched Newt respond to that since that interview. . . . And, you know, you could quibble with the words or whatever and I understand that, but what I think Newt was trying to say is that there are a broad range of budget plans and neither the right nor the left in extreme measures will be able to move with the American people in a new direction. That’s part of the debate.

And keep in mind about the Ryan budget, a lot of the people that are sort of running around and trying to stir up a little cock fight about what Newt Gingrich said, a year a go were saying that the Ryan plan was not their plan. That it was Paul Ryan’s plan, not their plan. … What people don’t endorse today, they’ll endorse tomorrow.