Michael Steele - average white Republican?
Posted by Moonage on 30 May 2006 | Tagged as: 2006 US Senate Races
Michael Steele is running for the US Senate in Maryland. He’s Republican. And, he’s black. That’s not a typically good thing to be seeking political office in Maryland. They tend to elect white Democrats historically. However, what ANY candidate of any race, party affiliation, gender, or any potential victim of bias hopes for is to be taken seriously by the opposition. Namely, you DREAM of something like this being exposed:
“Can turn Steele into a typical Republican“. In other words, an average white Republican. Don’t fret it Michael, from what I’ve read on this guy, he’s not average by any stretch of the imagination. My feeling so far is the Democrats in Maryland definitely have something to be worried about. If it’s not scary enough that he’s a very popular state-wide elected black Republican, he has a blog AND podcasts too. I’ll be watching this race. My only hope is Steele doesn’t over-react to the “typical Republican” comment and go too far proving he’s black enough to represent the minority ( read alienating the majority ). So far he’s been successful not having to. What he’s doing now he just needs to keep doing. He’s that good.
No sooner than I post this, I get this link:
Thats how the Lt. Governor of Maryland and the GOP€™s Great Black Hope plans to gin up turnout this fall - bashing gay Americans. He announced that he would be a different kind of Republican, but it€™s the same old swill in a slightly darker casing.
>> Then again, maybe Steele ought to go over to Iraq.
Predictable, on cue, and as directed. Since the Democrats can’t play the race card, they’ll play everything else. When you see crap like this, you KNOW they are scared. Bob Novak predicted a smear campaign, he’s right.
2 Comments »
on 04 Jun 2006 at 6:49 am 1.Soccer Dad said …
Missing steele
The Hedgehog Report asks why it’s so significant that Lt. Gov. (and Senate candidate) Michael Steele avoided a GOP fundraiser recently. Good lord Mosk. Steele has held fundraisers with Karl Rove, Andy Card and President Bush himself in the past….
on 04 Jun 2006 at 6:51 am 2.soccer dad said …
My guess is that the charge about Steele hating gays has to do with his Catholicism that also leads him to oppose the death penalty *AND* abortion.