I think I would love this.
Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R), who came up just short yesterday in his Senate race against Rep. Ben Cardin (D), is mulling a bid for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, according to an informed GOP source.
And one of his primary floggers in the blogosphere is championing this. Michael Steele got shellacked by double digits in the only race he’s ever run his own for high office, using the most deplorable electoral tricks in Maryland history, in the state with the highest percentage of black voters, and they want to make him the RNC chair?
YES!
I’m wondering when the ceremony for the presidential medal of freedom is planned for.
Is it just me or does he suddenly look ten years older and wider in that picture?
It’s in the Philadelphia Daily News article, but in case you missed it, here’s an interview with one of the guys Steele duped into working for him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIx9H7hdMuA
Oliver,
I’ve been a semi regular reader since before the ‘04 travesty. Congratulations and thank you for all your great writing and insights.
Rob A
Galveston, TX
I want to stick my neck out here and go on the record in strong support of this. I believe Michael Steele as RNC Chair would take the GOP to a place that …. they only dream of today.
I’m reading this tidbit for the first time today, and it’s deju vu or something. My spouse and I were discussing the “Maryland Obituary” piece in the WSJ, and I said that he cannot win against Mikulski in 2 years if he ran again.
Where else does he have to go? RNC. Regarding the comment about his disingenuous campaign, I cannot argue with that point, but that’s never stopped the RNC from hiring someone that isn’t transparent with the citizens. Steele is very articulate and handles interviews very well, so I can see a future up in the RNC ranks for him–and maybe he will truly show his stripes then as a hard core, non-mainstream type.
Benny (Benny’s World)
Didn’t you say something similar about Howard Dean?
Name a Maryland Republican Senatorial candidate who came closer to winning? Especially in a bad year for Republicans. If this was 1994 instead of 2006, Steele would have won by double digits.
Now, also think about who the DNC chairman is. A guy who bled through all his money before the first 2004 primary. And a guy who bled through all the party’s money before the peak of the election campaign of 2006.
Somehow I think the Republicans are being a little more rational here about what makes a good party chairman.
If this was 1994 instead of 2006, Steele would have won by double digits.
And if grandma had the equipment…
Maybe Michael Steele is on the “down low” like Kenny Melman?
Maybe Michael Steele is on the “down low” like Kenny Melman?
Adam, if ifs and ands were pots and pans, we’d have no need for tinkers.
My mother says that. I think it means shut up.
Dean bet all the chips, to be sure…but he also understood that you cannot win if you do not play…and that if you do not win, it becomes harder to try again the next time.
But campaign finances didn’t win Congress for the Dems or lose it for the Repubs–the GOP could have blown all of its capital on negative advertising and it still wouldn’t have changed the American rejection of Bush Doctrine.
“Adam, if ifs and ands were pots and pans, we’d have no need for tinkers.”
Well, I’m just making the point that Steele did very well and is a guy with a bright future in the Republican party. And the RNC chairman position is often a stepping stone. Just ask Haley Barbour.
“Michael Steele got shellacked by double digits in the only race he’s ever run [on] his own for high office”
‘Scuse me, how many primaries did Howard Dean win in 2004?
Winning 45% of the vote in a state where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 2 to 1 is nothing to be ashamed of.
Neither is appointing a black man to be party chairman, something the Democrats — despite their persistent self congratulatory rhetoric about how they are the only political choice for blacks — have never managed to do.
Is it just me or does he suddenly look ten years older and wider in that picture?
Posted by: Nimrod Gently | Nov 9, 2006 3:42:21 PM
Well, the camera adds 10 pounds. (and apparently subtracts 40 IQ points, if George Allen is a typical example)
I agree, Steele would be the candidate the Republicans deserve, since Blackwell and Harris appear to be busy….
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