This Is Getting Ridiculous

12:29 pm EST September 22nd, 2006 | News | 10 Comments

Michael Steele and his supporters are now holding up signs claiming he’s a Democrat.

No, Maryland voters, the printer did not make an error. Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele’s new campaign signs seem to identify him as a Democrat.

A "Steele Democrat," they read.

The bright blue placards and bumper stickers made their debut yesterday in Baltimore during an event announcing a new coalition of Democrats supporting the lieutenant governor’s U.S. Senate bid. Steele, of course, is the Republican nominee for Senate and a former chairman of the state Republican Party.

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10 Responses to “This Is Getting Ridiculous”

  1. Cyrus The Virus says:
    September 22, 2006 at 1:18 pm

    You must seriously think Maryland voters are the dumbest people on the face of the earth.

    Using your logic, I guess when i had that “Republicans for Rendell” sign in my condo window during the 2002 election, I was trying to trick people into thinking he was a Republican, rather than simply saying I supported him despite being in the other party.

  2. rdale says:
    September 22, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    The chair of the Utah Republican Party is a black man, James Evans. He’s as rabid a Bush-licker as you could want; when he was in the Utah state senate, representing the poorer West side of Salt Lake City, he made it his personal cursade to insult and hurt Salt Lake City’s liberal mayor, Rocky Anderson, at every turn, even withholding state funds for transportation in SLC unless Anderson backed down on something, I forget what. Evans lost his senate seat to a white (i.e. Mormon) republican, but became head of the state party. Recently when Bush came to SLC, Mayor Anderson made a passionate speech at the anti-Bush rally he organized and among other things said that “slavish devotion to a man or a party is not patriotism.” Evans jumped on that, saying that Rocky was being racist for using that term. The funny thing is that Evans makes his living as owner of a number of payday loan places, that charge up to and over 100% interest on loans to the poor. Talk about slavery!

  3. midderpidge says:
    September 22, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    I guess the signs should then read “Democrats for Steele”, Cyrus.

  4. Dugger says:
    September 22, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    Now really. The Virus is right. You’d have to be dumber than a doorknob to buy OW’s line here.

  5. Marty says:
    September 22, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    It gets funnier every day!

  6. Jet says:
    September 22, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    Heh. Good link. I especially liked this quote about Steele:

    “He wants to stay away from any discussion of the issues because that would be to his detriment,” Walters said. “He wants to run instead on his personality.”

    The truth hurts.

  7. Cyrus The Virus says:
    September 22, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    Yeah, I guess they should say that if you, like Oliver, assume that the Maryland electorate is so incredibly stupid they don’t know what party each candidate is with.

    The point of calling people “Reagan Democrats” or “Steele Democrats” is to point out that their appeal crosses party lines.

    Calling oneself a “Steele Republican” is kind of redundant.

  8. midderpidge says:
    September 22, 2006 at 3:13 pm

    How does the sign indicate what you say Cyrus. It has two words, STEELE and DEMOCRAT.

  9. Duros62 says:
    September 22, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    …assume that the Maryland electorate is so incredibly stupid they don’t know what party each candidate is with.

    Well, we are talking about Republicans after all.
    And a candidate about as focused as a sand crab.

  10. pennywit says:
    September 22, 2006 at 5:55 pm

    Hey, have you seen the Steele puppy commercial? It’s kind of amusing, actually.

    “And, for the record, I do like puppies.”

    –|PW|–