On Shore, Steele Absent, But Still a Presence
With just a few weeks to Primary Day, most Maryland politicians were packed into the small strip of honky tonk, miniature golf and beach resorts that is Ocean City.
Not present for the Maryland Association of Counties conference here, though, was Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the Republican who is seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate this fall. But that didn't mean Steele wasn't a presence here anyway.
Democratic frontfunner and U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin maintained a packed schedule of stops in and around Ocean City, telling a group gathered for the conference that his wife advised him to remember the event is bipartisan.
"She told me, 'Please don't say anything nasty about Republicans.' And I said, 'I don't need to do that; Michael Steele's done a pretty good job of that himself!'"
Down the road, Steele's political partner, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., had his back. As Ehrlich spoke to a crowded bar, filled with his campaign loyalists, he advised everyone to work hard for Steele's Senate bid.
"Michael Steele, he's going to be our next United States senator," Ehrlich said. "Wait 'till Hillary meets him!"
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August 18, 2006; 9:03 AM ET
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Posted by: Rufus | August 18, 2006 11:06 AM
No, No, you don't get it, Rufus! Michael Steele is an unqualified empty suit running for the US Senate. DUH!
Posted by: The Obvious | August 18, 2006 11:48 AM
Steele doesn't need to campaign on the Eastern Shore -- it's already solid Steele country. As I drive around I see plenty of Steele signs and bumper stickers. The only statewide Democrat signs I've seen is one O'Malley sign and one Mfume bumper sticker. Steele should concentrate on central Maryland and not preach to the choir over here on the Shore.
Posted by: MK | August 18, 2006 12:27 PM
What is so anti-Steele about Mosk's posting? The critical comment from Cardin was to be expected from Steele's prospective general election opponent, and refers to statements that Steele himself made (and then flip-flopped from).
If you're not happy that the Post is not blatantly shilling for Steele, then you're free to read the Washington Times.
Posted by: MHK919 | August 18, 2006 1:40 PM
There is nothing biased about this posting, other than its not news. Having a Democrat say something disparaging about a Republican and a Republican say another Republican is going to win the seat he's running for, isn't news. Maybe Mosk was trying to work in the Maryland Association of Counties conference in Ocean City, but the quotes were silly campaign back and forths.
Posted by: RCD | August 18, 2006 2:05 PM
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened,seem never to have been quite real."
General Douglas MacArthur, 1957[1]
Posted by: che | August 19, 2006 6:00 AM
Nazism and the spread of Communism seemed quite real to me Che...but if you like that kind of stuff (Che), I guess you would agree with that quote.
Now on to something worth commenting on, if you don't think Matt HATES Steele and can't see through his spin, let me summarize his article above in plain English so you can see how far from the Left this guy is:
1. Steele ignores the redneck "honky tonks" of the Eastern Shore because he's got the redneck vote locked up anyway.
2. The Democratic candidate Cardin displays his bipartisanship with the people of the Eastern Shore.
3. Ehrlich speaks to a crowded bar of druken Republicans and bashes Hillary.
Way to go Matt. Real objective reporting. I'm sure the editors at the Post love you.
Posted by: BG from PG | August 19, 2006 11:13 AM
Someone left a personal note on here for the reporter. Those are better addressed in individual emails. For e-mail addresses put: last name and first initial @washpost.com.
Posted by: Phyllis Jordan | August 20, 2006 9:22 AM
Sounds like some people are reading stuff into this that isn't there. If Mosk hates Steele so much, then how come the title of this refers to him even though he didn't show up?
Steele's website has plenty of press releases if you want to read a glorified version of his campaign. The rest of us want to read the facts, and that's what the Post is reporting.
(Though I wonder if this was really worth reporting, since it consisted mostly of predictable comments from each campaign's partisans.)
Posted by: MHK919 | August 21, 2006 12:35 PM
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Okay, okay, we get it! Matt Mosk HATES Michael Steele. Sheesh!