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For One Senate Candidate the "R" is a Scarlet Letter
washingtonpost.com ^ | July 25, 2006 | Dana Millbank

Posted on 07/25/2006 7:40:53 AM PDT by MurryMom

The candidate, immersed in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country, said down for lunch with reporters yesterday and had this to say on the Iraq war: "It didn't work. . . . We didn't prepare for the peace."

On the response to Hurricane Katrina: "A monumental failure of government."

On the national mood: "There's a palpable frustration right now in the country."

It's all fairly standard Democratic boilerplate -- except the candidate is a Republican .

"For me to pretend I'm not a Republican would be a lie," he reasoned. But to run as a proud Republican? "That's going to be tough, it's going to be tough to do," he said. "If this race is about Republicans and Democrats, I lose."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: blabbermouths; election2006; electioncongress; girlymen; metrosexuals; michaelsteele; nancyboys; rino; scarletletterrs
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To: MurryMom
The compost can't keep a national secret, but it will protect it's sources and keep a secret when it comes to a dem mole in the republican party! Is this made up or what? I hate ambiguous journalism (if ya want to call this waste of words journalism)
61 posted on 07/25/2006 8:57:43 AM PDT by Edgerunner (The WOT will not be won without Iran and Syria going down)
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To: Grendel9

Is it logical that NINE reporters
would answer a summons from the
Lt. Governor of Maryland? I mean,
this guy is a nobody outside of
that state. I never heard of him
here in Illinois.


These reporters would travel to the ends of the earth to get a soundbite of a Republican bashing the president. And Michael Steele is a very snappy dresser. I have seen him in French cuffs. Chafee has never hidden his disdain for the president. Steele is just laying low here to keep the money flowing into his campaign from the GOP base. It's him, I have no doubt about it because he's used that term "monumental failure" before and he's dealing specifically with an issue of interest to black voters.


62 posted on 07/25/2006 8:58:59 AM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: Oeconomicus

No way I would believe Steele would say some sheeit like that. What is your purpose for coming up with that crap.


63 posted on 07/25/2006 9:11:06 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: edcoil

I dont believe that for one minute.


64 posted on 07/25/2006 9:11:58 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: MurryMom
Jeez, for a Republican Senator to anonymously bash the President to a Washington Post colunist shows even less balls than the minimal amount of balls exhibited by a typical U.S. Senator.

Of course, this is assuming that Milbank didn't just make up this entire story out of whole cloth to begin with.

65 posted on 07/25/2006 9:15:09 AM PDT by jpl (Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.)
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To: cardinal4

Can't be him. Pro-life.


66 posted on 07/25/2006 9:20:24 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: cardinal4

Linc the Fink was my guess, too.


67 posted on 07/25/2006 9:23:45 AM PDT by white trash redneck (Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11-01.)
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To: MurryMom

Elect Laffey.


68 posted on 07/25/2006 9:26:41 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: NeoCaveman
"Unless of course Milbank was making stuff up."

My guess.

69 posted on 07/25/2006 9:31:47 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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To: HostileTerritory

Sure, it's not Chafee. Though it's obvious why people are drawn to him first. But the obligatory post denouncing him and supporting Laffey? Must be made. As for this Senator?

Rush is saying it's Steele.

If so? He's lost me based on the statements about the Iraq war.


70 posted on 07/25/2006 9:35:49 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: MurryMom

Strategery?


71 posted on 07/25/2006 9:36:00 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (The Latest on the Ohio gov race http://blackwellvstrickland.blogspot.com)
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To: MurryMom

Just for information, Rush just said he received a super secret e-mail from somebody at the White House and they have said they now know it is Michael Steele. Rush did not say much else about it. He is taking a phone call now from a Sargeant...


72 posted on 07/25/2006 9:37:38 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: MurryMom

Hmmm. Not a very principled person, if he's dissing the President, anonymously, yet gladly taking the financial support from the Republican Party.


73 posted on 07/25/2006 9:41:24 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Grendel9

He's hardly "nobody", and your not having heard of him MAY not be the ultimate guide to Who's Who in politics. And he is a very sharp dresser, which may well be another clue. French cuffs and monogrammed shirts are definitely his style. Considering that you've never heard of him, the fact that you can't "see" him being a good dresser are meaningless.


74 posted on 07/25/2006 9:41:49 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: MurryMom
""If this race is about Republicans and Democrats, I lose."

You're a loser no matter what happens to your precious seat of power.

You're so strong in your convictions you won't even put your name behind them.

We need leaders, not cowardly power mongers.

75 posted on 07/25/2006 9:49:19 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: sgtbono2002

Who else could it be, then?


76 posted on 07/25/2006 9:53:36 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: napscoordinator
Yup... too bad.

I was looking forward to voting for Michael.

Nothing earns my disgust more than sell out republicans. Dems always find one or two on whatever issue, just enough to screw whatever and prevent things like ANWAR getting done.

What majority?
77 posted on 07/25/2006 10:17:23 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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To: linda_22003

I just heard Limbaugh and he agrees with you
about this 9 reporter gig being Steele.
Sorry for the insult of not having heard of
the guy. But I'm a rube in Illinois.
Don't think I'd have voted for him...after
this article anyway. <>g,.


78 posted on 07/25/2006 12:35:35 PM PDT by Grendel9 (quen)
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To: Grendel9

Oh, you certainly have your interesting politicians out there, too..... ;)


79 posted on 07/25/2006 1:03:20 PM PDT by linda_22003
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To: linda_22003

Yeah...both of them in the Senate.
But give us time, we're making a
progress a little at a time. Hard
to get someone really decent to run
against the Chicago mob.


80 posted on 07/25/2006 1:38:43 PM PDT by Grendel9 (quen)
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