Monday, October 30, 2006

Michael Steele: Party Pride

Maryland Senate candidate Steele on his party affiliation:

"It's an impediment. It's a hurdle I have to overcome."

"I've got an 'R' here, a scarlet letter."

"For me to pretend I'm not a Republican would be a lie."

"If this race is about Republicans and Democrats, I lose."

And of course, there's the infamous blue "Steele Democrat" sign and bumper sticker, which he told Tim Russert yesterday was conceived as a "cute" idea for his Democrat supporters, a reference to the "Reagan Democrats." Hmmm.

I guess posing as a Democrat might be an honest enough tactic as long as he kept it up for the next six years. But something tells me that won't happen.

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