Steele actually run a pretty good campaign in MD (before he turned idiot in running RNC). He run in a bad year, but I think in the environment of 2004 or 2010, Steele would have won.
If he runs a good Senate campaign in 2012 and the mood of the country is equal or better for conservatives, he has a fighting chance.
I disagree. Steele was trying to blur the lines between being a Republican and a Democrat, trying to trick the leftists infesting Maryland into believing he was actually a Democrat. He ran an abysmal campaign and lost to the guy who turned Baltimore into a total hell-hole.
I hope you’re right, but I’ve spent a bit of time in Maryland. Great people in the panhandle and eastern shore, but get a little east of Frederick and on the west side of the Chesepeake Bay (where most of the population is concentrated) and it is a totally different mindset; all that seems to matter is what they can suckle off the government teat.
before he turned idiot in running RNC”
That was one of the stranger meltdowns in recent years, wasn’t it?
I had not personally thought of him as an idiot when he ran for Senate in MD, and when he was in charge of GOPAC.
Then, out of nowhere, he really did turn into one at the RNC. Now I see Steele’s picture next to the dictionary definition of idiot.
Amazing, really.