Michael Steele Must Be Joking

4:06 am EST June 21st, 2006 | Politics | 11 Comments

The Steele campaign has a video ad up on their website and boy is it a hoot. Steele hangs out on a porch, “reading” the newspaper and lamenting about corruption in Washington. The punchline? Steele says that the way to clean up Washington is to send him there.

That’s right, a rubber-stamp Republican crony who is nothing more than an emissary of George Bush is pledging to “shake up” Washington. If this is satire, Michael Steele is a master of it.

But I think he’s serious. Steele understands that the only way he can hope to get a Hail Mary win in Maryland is by appearing centrist. But the fact of the matter is, Michael Steele is a hardcore right-winger who believes that the extremist policies of a narrow few ideologues should take precedent over the mainstream. Steele is Bush lackey who requires Bush to come to town to raise money for his campaign. This picture isn’t going away:

Should we be unfortunate enough to have him as our senator, he’ll redefine the image of a “yes” man and bow down to the altar of conservatism that has destroyed so much of our national infrastructure whereas someone like Ben Cardin or Kweisi Mfume will honorably represent the mainstream of the electorate in Maryland and fight for a sensible foreign policy, energy security, and fiscal sanity.

Steele’s trying to put on yet another layer of paint, a radical in moderate’s clothing. I don’t think it will work.

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11 Responses to “Michael Steele Must Be Joking”

  1. drpedro says:
    June 21, 2006 at 8:06 am

    truer words have never been spoken……

  2. Marty says:
    June 21, 2006 at 8:06 am

    Smell the fear.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    June 21, 2006 at 11:06 am

    Fear? I’m actually more confident about Dems winning this race than most of the other races around the country. The numbers and the trends just don’t favor Steele.

  4. Frank_D says:
    June 21, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Good one, Cyrus!

  5. Cyrus the Virus says:
    June 21, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Kwesi Mfume and “honorably” don’t belong in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence.

    Maybe if he’s elected he can do something about the fact that roughly 70% of the children born in Baltimore are raised by single mothers. Oh, wait, half of them are his.

  6. scratch says:
    June 21, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Rainlion…

    I may have missed the post where Frank was praising Safavian and…what’s that other guy’s name?

  7. rainlion says:
    June 21, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Not as funny as this Frank…

    Safavian found guilty in lobbyist trial

    and not as pathetic and disgusting as this:

    ” Political consultant and ad producer Carey Lee Cramer is expected to testify today defending himself against charges he sexually molested two young girls.

    Cramer, 44, took the stand shortly before court recessed at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. He will likely continue today before Visiting Judge Homer Salinas in Auxiliary Court A, where his trial began June 7.

    Cramer, who gained national notoriety with an anti-Al Gore commercial in 2000, is facing several counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.”

  8. rainlion says:
    June 21, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Marty and DrP – please… there is nothing to fear from Steele

    Cyrus… funny how all you can come up with is a specious, borderline racist attack on Mfume… not surprising since I can tell you can’t even begin to attempt to address, let alone refute any of his policy stances…

    very juvenile…

  9. Frank_D says:
    June 21, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Safavian found guilty in lobbyist trial
    Actually, I did laugh. Everytime I see an Armenian name I think of this line spoken by Mike Connors (the “Mannix” guy) as an Armenian detective.
    He tells somebody his name, and they say, “What kind of a name is that?”
    He says, “It’s Armenian… You can always tell an Armenian name because it sounds like “Armenian”.

  10. duros62 says:
    June 21, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    “The country is being run by Extremists because Moderates have shit to do.”
    Jon Stewart, last night.

  11. Frank_D says:
    June 23, 2006 at 8:06 am

    Let me try it on for size:

    Sen. Michael Steele (R) MD

    Yesssssss!