Michael Steele tells Washington Post to "Eat It" - God I love it!

Fox News ^ | November 5, 2006 | Transcript

[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....

[onyx]

Cardin is a jerk --- bland and old.

Steele has vitality and he's the much more likable of the two.

I think he'll win.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Sorry. I was reading an article about my governor, Perdue. Pull my post.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"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.

Or when they don't spend any time in Maryland...or outside the Washington Beltway...

[finnigan2]

Well, well. It looks like Osama Yomama Obama has some competition within the black community in the charisma department. Do you suppose that Time Magazine will do a cover story on him after he's elected senator?

[Miss Marple]

I might be wrong, but I do not get the feeling of futility that I had back when Dole was running in 1996. It's nothing more than intuition, but darn, I really feel like Tuesday will be an ok day for us.

Did you get to go to Rome? I would appreciate your thoughts in freepmail when you have time.

[Dog Gone]

No biggie. We knew what you meant.

[NearlyNormal]

My wife and I fell on the floor laughing when Steele said that.

Ditto .. at no time before had I (and my wife) been so glad I had already swallowed my coffee!

[Torie]

All true. Maryland demographics are really tough however. It will take a fair number of Dems to invest in Steele as an interesting growth stock, particularly blacks, but also some whites. Maybe the apparent receding of the Dem wave will give Steele just enough space to accomplish that.

[Palladin]

The WaPo hates to see a black man get so "uppity". They are all racists at heart at the Post.

[onyx]

I can easily visualize black democrats keeping quiet but voting FOR Steele on Tuesday!

[daybreakcoming]

We need a man like that in the Senate.

We need a LOT of men like that in the Senate. Right now, we are just trying to hang on but next time, I bet we get them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Amen, I wish I was in his state. Regardless, I will get out and vote straight Republican.

Regardless of state we all need to vote straight Republican.!!!!

[hellinahandcart]

Amen, I wish I was in his state.

Oh no. No you don't. Trust me. LOL

(we will be voting for Steele on Tuesday, so feel free to live vicariously through us :D)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I can easily visualize black democrats keeping quiet but voting FOR Steele on Tuesday!

BUMP!!

[1035rep]

WOO-HOO!

[Radix]

'They wrote an editorial saying that he had no ideas and hadn't accomplished anything."

The Democrat Party is now and always has been one of the most racist organizations in American history. That goes for its supporters in the media as well.

[conservative in nyc]

Regardless of state we all need to vote straight Republican.!!!!

Not true. In New York State, we need to vote for John Faso for governor on the Conservative Party line to make sure the party keeps its status (and tries to keep the RINOs in check). And pulling the lever for other Conservative Party candidates would likely be a good thing, too, if they didn't cross-endorse a Republican.

Heck, in some NYC races, there isn't even a Republican or Conservative candidate, and most of the judges are cross-endorsed. Cross-endorsed judges mean liberal Democrats 99 times out of 100. And what to do when your liberal Dem assemblyman only faces opposition from the Green Party? Vote for the Green as a protest or write someone in? Decisions, decisions.

[big'ol_freeper]

Voted by absentee ballot last week....as did lil'freeper. We'll just have to miss out on the cute "I voted" sticker.

[p[adre29]

Exactly.

Cardin is waaay out of step with normal people.

[hoosiermama]

You speak for many with EACH vote!