Posted on 01/31/2009 12:20:24 PM PST by Salvation
1. Michael Steele, who was adopted as an infant, was born at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Md., on Oct. 19, 1958.
2. He grew up in a family of Democrats. Steele credits his mother, Maebell, and Ronald Reagan with turning him toward the Republican Party.
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3. One of the first in his family to go to college, he earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Steele also spent a few years at the Augustinian Friars Seminary at Villanova University, --snip--
4. After graduating from law school in 1991, Steele joined Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, an international law firm, based in Washington, D.C. In 1997, --snip--
5. Steele rose quickly in the Republican Party, beginning at the local level in Prince George's County as chair of the Prince George's County Republican Central Committee from 1994 to 2000. --snip--.
6. Steele became the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland, taking office as lieutenant governor in January 2003.
7. In 2004, Steele was tapped to speak at the Republican National Convention, --snip--
8. When Sen. Paul Sarbanes, a Democrat, announced he would not seek re-election, several prominent Republicans, --snip-- persuaded Steele to run for the Senate seat. In November 2006, --snip--
9. On Feb. 1, 2007, Steele was named the chairman of GOPAC, a political action committee working to elect Republicans to office --snip--
10. A devout Catholic, Steele is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Landover Hills, Md. He regularly attends services with his wife, Andrea, and their sons, Michael and Drew.
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His statements indicate, plainly, that he thinks that Americans should not own “assault weapons” (which are in reality just semi-auto mag fed firearms”. He also subscribes to the historically ignorant, 2nd Amendment origins denying school of thought that the 2nd is about hunting and skeet shooting. He is an elitist, plain and simple.
I cut and pasted his own words. I hope that Freepers take an hour and read the whole story, i.e. the Federalist Papers, the papers of the anti-Federalists, and the Constitution of our United States. Steele is no friend of the Second Amendment to our Constitution.
They don't have to look very hard. He's already run for office, so he's been "vetted". He failed the bar exam (in DC, I believe). His sister (a physician) was married to Mike Tyson, and those two had a messy divorce.
That's the best his opponents could do in months of looking.
Ok I agree but do you think someone like Sarah Palin needs education on Weapons? Christ first McCain now Steele Why wasn't there some poling or Questioners sent out?
Michael Steele on Roe v. Wade:
“The dance we do is, we put too much pressure and weight on one decision...”
“We have to re-evaluate that.”
“...have to live with the reality of a decision that was made 33 years ago.”
What’s wrong with educating the guy? He’s a city boy, he’s probably never handled a gun, a rifle, or a semi auto, maybe not even a cap gun!
He doesn’t have a predisposed knee jerk reaction, he just thinks he has an opinion based on reading.
When he thinks of assault weapons, he imagines an M60, or a grenade launcher.
Take the guy to a range and have some fun, share our passion, and let him catch it, too.
...related.
The GOP Should Go Upscale
Townhall.com ^ | January 31, 2009 | Michael Barone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175548/posts
I totally agree with him. He is saying that instead of adding new laws, lets enforce the ones we have. What is wrong with that?
He is saying that it is okay to ban semi-auto firearms and that they are not needed for “hunting and skeet shooting”. The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting and skeet shooting.
Do you have the link for that?
Actually, for someone who knows very little about Michael Steele, that was my thought when I read this. I think he only goes on what he knows, and he clearly doesn’t understand the reasons people own guns or the mindset of many of them.
But I think he sounds like a bright guy and if he is going to play on the national stage, especially as a conservative, then he needs to understand gun rights and ownership better than he does.
He must have been a military brat, being born on Andrews AFB, only a mile from the last duty station I lived at as a dependent (at Cheltenham (NAVCOMSTA Washington) so he has that going for him in my mind as well.
Maryland PING!
Ping.
Nice to see at least one post on this thread that isn’t fawning Republican propaganda.
Steele is a squishy Beltway insider lawyer.
I’ve learned two things for sure from his ascension to the leadership of the RNC:
1) The Republicans’ plumbline is still Barack Obama. Like all armies destined to lose, they’re reacting to Obama, who has the initiative and isn’t likely to lose it anytime soon.
2) The Republicans don’t even know what is wrong with them and therefore are locked in on the same course that has marked their efforts for several years now. Anyone who is actually expecting anything out of them except lip service to anything conservative are extremely naive.
Thanks for the ping. I’m glad to see him leading the RNC.
A murderer
I see that you are still your same pessimistic self.
Sadly, I have to agree.
And, where did the conservative Freepers go? It’s like a college campus around here.
*Sigh*... Sadly Gater, they ain't gonna listen to you- Having just overturned the moderates, they're more than content to replace them ...with more moderates.
I can guarantee you that any big "C" Conservative would never have uttered those words. Steele is also soft on the Pro-Life issue, and his ascension heralds nothing new in the direction of the Republican party- It is more of the same.
With Republican registration down to 26% in this country Steele's first concern is to gain a seat in New York and New Jersey, when he should rightly be wondering how to get all the red states comfortably back in his pocket...
I had hopes of a return to Reagan, but it is not gonna happen in the Republican party. Their fate is now sealed.
I heard Tammy Bruce yesterday saying Steele might be a squishy conservative. However, hearing him on Fox Sunday this morning made me feel better. Chris Wallace tried to corner him but Steele put Wallace right back in his box. At least he is somebody who can articulate the difference between policy differences and mean-spiritedness. Bush was never able (and the media never reported it when he did manage to do it).
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