Posted on 11/05/2006 1:58:00 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I've not come to them as a Republican or a Democrat, as an African-American, or anything other than who I am, and that is someone who believes in public service, who wants to go to Washington to try his best to make a difference in a town that has forgotten where people live and how they live and what they go through every day.
So that's not color. That's not party affiliation. That's real life. And I've been speaking to real life for the last year and a half, and the people of my state are responding to it. ..
...It is absolutely pitiful, and that's nothing more than what the Baltimore Sun said about me four years ago, that I bring nothing to the table but the color of my skin. They were just a little bit more sophisticated in their ignorance.
My conversation with the editorial board didn't go the way they wanted it to go because I wouldn't kowtow and answer the questions the way they wanted me to answer them. I'm my own person. I don't care about the Washington Post. .. not going to get me elected. The Washington Post is not going to prevent me from getting elected.
They're a bunch of folks, as I told them in the interview, who sit in an ivory tower, who have no clue what real life is about out here. It's easy to pontificate when you don't have to put a vote on the line, when you don't have to look a voter in the eye and let them know what you really think, so what — they come after me.
.... So clearly, I must be winning this race, and the Washington Post will have to write that headline, "Steele Wins", and then eat it....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Saluting him with a moment away from the keyboard, bumping in Conga Line..
My wife and I fell on the floor laughing when Steele said that.
Amen, I wish I was in his state. Regardless, I will get out and vote straight Republican. The anti-American media has inspired me.
Good for him!
What ticked off Michael Steele about the Washington Post?
So did we!
DBM Menu for Wednesday, November 8, 2006: Crow Casserole
ROFL- nice to see someone tell the Washington Post what they can do with their pontificating!
STEELE FOR SENATE!!!!
Black republicans get a lot of flak, black democrats get to be on the cover of time and newsweek. No, no bias here.
They wrote an editorial saying that he had no ideas and hadn't accomplished anything.
I wouldn't know...haha
He's going to win!
He's absolutely fantastic!
Oh, how I wish someone would run this headline on Wed. am after Steele wins:
"STEELE TO WAPO: EAT IT!"
I hear the Wednesday edition is a great side dish for this:
Perhaps you can lend that pic to the weakly mags for next week's cover photo.
We need a man like that in the Senate.
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