Posted on 06/04/2013 7:50:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Michael Steele, a former Republican National Committee chairman and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, is weighing a 2014 gubernatorial bid, he said Monday.
“We’re looking at it,” Steele, who is now an MSNBC contributor, told host Chuck Todd on his program “The Daily Rundown” on the network. Steele said he doesn’t feel that he needs to make a decision until the end of the year.
His comments came on the same day that Harford County Executive David R. Craig (R) became the first major Republican candidate to announce his bid to succeed Gov. Martin O’Malley (D). Also Monday, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D), who announced his gubernatorial bid last month, publicly unveiled Howard County Executive Ken Ulman (D) as his running mate.
Steele, who lost a U.S. Senate bid in 2006, acknowledged that Maryland is “a tough state” for a Republican, but he suggested there may be an opening because residents have been “taxed to the hilt.”
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I noticed the terms “real Black dude” and “a righteous bro”, not some poser.
I’m not put off by these terms, but it does strike me that Blacks today use nearly these identical terms when talking about any Black that gets an education, comports themselves in a Conservative reserved manner, and obtains a great job. It’s as if success somehow disqualified them from being a member of the “genuine” Black race.
I try to veer away from sounding as if I agree with that mindset.
I certainly agree.
My suggestion is to move more Conservatives in.
You gain a lot more by flipping a state than by abandoning it.
Why are we as a group so eager to flee instead of stand our ground and turn things around?
I’m not singling you out, because this is a common suggestion you have made here.
Having “lived” in MD for 30 years until moving to UT last year, moving to MD and changing it is unfortunately beyond reality. It is LIB central on many fronts, including urban ferals, government employees, the mentally challenged and other hanger-ons. I don’t mean to be negative, just realistic.
Agreed. I lived in Maryland for the first 39 years of my life and moved north to PA, which is less liberal...especially in Southern York County.
I still love my O’s and Ravens, but the state politics are just WAY too left for my tastes.
For those bashing Michael Steele let me get this off my chest. He did not vote for Obama
He was head of the Party in which we picked up 60+ House seats numerous Senate and Governors
While Chairman of the MD State Party he lead the Party to big wins in the State Legislature and the Governors Mansion for the first time in 40 years.
He ran an impressive Senate race in 2006 in a very bad year for Republicans.
That being said as a Marylander I would not vote for him, his time has come and gone, but I cant stand people bashing him when he has done a lot of good for the Party. If we keep bashing people in our party there won’t be many of us left.
Steele isn’t all that bad. Not saying he is anywhere near perfect, but Marylanders could do much worse and probably will.
oh. him again.
Okey-dokey . . .
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The party will probably run him. They know he can’t win here with the Rats’ well-oiled fraud machine, but he will be good for the bottom line. With all of the TV face time he has had, he is recognizable and will therefore bring in campaign donations.
It's a structural issue in Maryland. The major employer is the Federal government; none of those folks believe that taking money from the taxpayers to live large is any sort of a moral failure. There's no way you'll get enough conservatives to move in. It's been a one-party state since the 50s, except for a brief fling with a dastardly RINO a few years back.
Thanks Albion Wilde. I appreciate the point.
That's a cogent theory. I'll try to keep an open mind. I do have to say, ten years ago when he was running for Senate, I put a Michael Steele sign on my front lawn, and one of my black neighbors picked a fight with me over it and stomped off, ending our formerly very friendly family relationship.
I followed the Ehrlich/Steele campaign very closely and traveled pretty extensively to attend some small campaign gatherings. I was quite smitten with Steele and continued to be until he started talking like a RINO a few years ago.
I helped out a fair amount with low-level grunt work during the campaign, including making calls, driving to Annapolis to work on mailings, taking literature door-to-door, manning a campaign booth at a county fair, and freezing my head off all day and all evening at the fire hall polling place on election day (I was the only volunteer).
My conclusion, just based on my exchanges with various black people, is that there were many blacks in the big voting districts who voted for him just because of race. Which was fine with me. It got Ehrlich in, and many of the black people who crossed over to vote R would do so again once they saw how a Republican straightened out $pendenning’s mess. That was my thinking, but we saw how that went....
When Ehrlich ran a second time, the wind was out of my sails. I could not believe how poorly his campaign was run. I never even got a follow-up to my online application to help. One of my sons, who wanted to donate considerable time, talent, and effort to the campaign for advertising, never had his phone call returned.
Hate to be a cynic, but I got the impression that Bobby was just going through the motions, did not really care about winning the race, and was just content to maintain the networking and the lifestyle. After I kept getting all sorts of post-election solicitations for groups started by him and/or his wife, I got really disgusted.
Sorry to make this so long....
No, quite all right. I, too, spent many hours/days, trying to help a conservative state delegate. The ignorance — appalling.
It’s all so sad. The whole slide into anti-Constitutionalism, anti-Federalism, all of it. The ginned-up racial hatred, after all the years of effort by Abolitionists and Civil Rights activists. The reversion to serfdom. Just a mess.
If I did not have my faith, I would be very depressed about the whole mess.
Yes, my dear; I am living in that space between this fallen world and the elusiveness of the next.
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