Michael Steele has never been elected to an office on his own. He’s a right-wing Republican in a moderate Democratic state, and he needs to fool as many people as he can in order to win Sen. Sarbanes’ senate seat. As such, the Maryland GOP and their allies at the Washington Times are trying to create a Michael Steele exception to politics. They don’t want anyone to say anything bad about their candidate, and will decry as “mean” any attempts to do so (their first salvo was the made-up Oreo story). This Times story is funny because they’ve got a “Democrat” warning that attacking Steele is a bad thing to do, of course buried in the story is that this “Democrat”, Wayne K. Curry, is on the short list to replace Steele as the lower half of Republican governor Bob Ehrlich’s ticket.
Michael Steele is ashamed of his connection to the Bush team.
Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele defended himself yesterday against critics who have tried to tie him to the Bush administration – distancing his U.S. Senate campaign from a lame duck president with sagging poll numbers.
Steele’s comments, made outside a high school in Northeast Baltimore, came as his campaign prepares to host Vice President Dick Cheney at a $1,000-per-person fundraiser tonight, timing that did not escape his foes.
“When people start talking about linking me to the president I have one question for them: Who’s running for the U.S. Senate? Michael Steele, not George Bush,” the Republican said, answering a question about his stance on education.
It’s simply part of the game for Democrats to point out how out of touch Steele and his pals George Bush and Dick Cheney are with mainstream Maryland values. If he doesn’t want to defend his record and his positions, he should get out of the race.
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Are you talking about the special rules that would open up selected Maryland polling places early in heavily Democratic areas to give people more time rally their friends and neighbors and improve turnout among Democrats?
Yeah- I heard about that. Some legislature you have there in Maryland.
redistricting (doh!)
The GOP could have been involved in the haggling over early voting if they hadn’t walked out.
We’re not “linking” Steele to Bush. Steele, as the picture above shows, is clearly linked to Bush. If he wants to embrace Bush’s policies and take the money Bush and Cheney raise for him — he can’t run away from the connection.
It’s very simple, Oliver. Linking Steele to Bush is “part of the game for Democrats.” Running on a positive, Bush-free message is part of the game for Steele and his Republican team. But I know that you know this.
“The GOP could have been involved in the haggling over early voting if they hadn t walked out. ”
Funny- you could say the same thing about redistricing in Texas.
Smell the fear.
We re not linking Steele to Bush.
Read any and all statements/releases/etc. from Democrats regarding Steele, and see how many mention Bush in the same sentence. You just did it yourself.
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Right now McCain is being bitchslapped on his ‘compromise’ immigration bill.
No, illegally STEAL his credit report, then release it.
It’s a culture of corruption I tell ya….!
… or we will release his credit record.
BD…
The President does indeed link Saddam with 9/11, in terms of how the latter showed us the need to deal with threats before they culminate in deadly attacks. This is very different from saying that Saddam is RESPONSIBLE for 9/11–a claim that I never heard the President make but which is nevertheless attributed to him endlessly by the left.
Read any and all statements/releases/etc. from Democrats regarding Steele, and see how many mention Bush in the same sentence. You just did it yourself.
Is this the same way that Bush mentioning Iraq, Saddam, and 9/11 in the same sentences doesn’t mean that the President meant to link Saddam to 9/11?
Steele’s credit record was improperly obtained. It was not released. The people responsible were fired and sent into the legal system. Again, if Steele supports Bush’s policies, if he’s taking money Bush and Cheney raise for him, does he get to absolve himself of Bush simply by saying so? No.
Redistricting in Texas was so abnormal that it was worthy of a Supreme court challenge. I don’t think you’ll see the MD GOP in the Supreme court.
BD…
“There’s no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties,” the president said. But he also said, “We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11″ attacks. -George Bush, 9/17/2003
Maybe you call 6 months “long after,” but now it’s been over three years and the charge is still being made.
The only consistent point made by Bush regarding 9/11 and Saddam is that the former suggested to us that we should deal decisively with the latter…and we have.
fine OW, then why not pound him on his stance on the ISSUES, instead of trying to paint him as a Bushbot.
The man is trying to run an issues based campaign, and the democrats are trying to run a mud-slinging campaign based on innuendo..
Like I said though, a culture of corruption those democrats….
Actually, scratch, the claim is not that Bush said that Saddam caused 9/11, the claim is that Bush linked Saddam and 9/11, and then did nothing to discredit the American assumption that Saddam was in some way responsible until long after we’d gone to war. A not insignificant number of troops over in Iraq still believe that going into the country was payback for 9/11.
As for the tired canard that we went into Iraq to handle a “deadly threat”–I’m sure this explains why we had to invade a hostile country with no nuclear weapons and why we still feel we can negotiate with North Korea.
“Redistricting in Texas was so abnormal that it was worthy of a Supreme court challenge. I don t think you ll see the MD GOP in the Supreme court. ”
HAH!
So you’re saying that having polls open longer only in predominantly Democratic districts isn’t abnormal?
You’re flippin’ hilarious. But hey keep trying to come up with a good talking point for that one.
By the way- I wouldn’t be surprised if that little piece of work isn’t slapped down by a court somewhere. Equal access- not extra equal access for Democrats. Either give everybody the same opportunity for a few extra days to vote or nobody. (Imagine how you would howl if it were the other way around.)