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July 26, 2006
Nerve of steele
Apparently Michael Steele, the Republican candidate for Senate in Maryland made some anonymous, critical comments about the national Republican Party as well as President Bush.
Now that he admits being the source, a number of bloggers have commented on his indiscretion.
Bullwinkle Blog diverts attention away from Steele's comments and focuses it instead on the offensive campaign being directed towards him.
Before Lt. Gov. Steele admitted that he made the comments, Rhymes with Right criticized the then anonymous candidate for being cowardly. After Steele owned up to the comments RwR notes that the comments were taken out of context and concludes
We know that with Michael Steele we will get a moderate-conservative -- not a liberal like certain New England senators, but not a hard-right ideologue.
But I think there's more here that people are missing. This has been a regular strategy of Steele. Robert Novak noted a few months ago that Steele was purposely distancing himself from national Republicans. It certainly seems that he's trying to establish his independence or possibly he's saying whatever he needs to get elected.
Needless to say, I don't think that these recent comments should be dismissed or excused so quickly.
Technorati tags: Michael Steele, Maryland Politics.
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I see this as a bigger issue. It's one thing to privately recognize that Bush might hurt his numbers in Maryland, but to go to the MSM and lay out this type of red meat for them really throws his whole party under the Bus. They use this as another attempt to try to report to the country how awful the GOP is and how even their own people don't like them. I think we realty need to question this guys character, that he is willing to throw his whole party under the bus, just to get elected. I mean, who does he think he is, a Democrat? :-)
Posted by: Chaim at July 26, 2006 8:50 AMI see this as a bigger issue. It's one thing to privately recognize that Bush might hurt his numbers in Maryland, but to go to the MSM and lay out this type of red meat for them really throws his whole party under the Bus. They use this as another attempt to try to report to the country how awful the GOP is and how even their own people don't like them. I think we realty need to question this guys character, that he is willing to throw his whole party under the bus, just to get elected. I mean, who does he think he is, a Democrat? :-)
Posted by: Chaim at July 26, 2006 8:52 AMEllen Sauerbrey lost by 6000 votes in 1994 running as a conservative and was trounced in 1998 running as a moderate. You make the call.
Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at July 26, 2006 4:32 PM