Michael Steele had a good TV ad campaign going for a while, telling us how's he is a different kind of politician and is going to clean up DC and do things differently. Really. He's animated and at-ease in front of the camera, and it's just like he's talking to us face-to-face.... and for the record, he loves puppies. It was a very well-crafted message, very warm and fuzzy -- aside from that pitiful looking dog.
But that warm and fuzzy feeling took a jolt this week when his opposition launched its own campaign reminding voters that Steele is a Repiglican, first and foremost. He supports a ban on abortions, they said, opposes stem cell research. And worst of all, he loves George Bush (great picture, guys.) Any W&F I may have had left me like with the suddenness a sucker punch. Yes, of course he's a Republican, so all that down-home, likeable, smart and reasonable image is a lie. George Bush has taken that party so far down the road toward fascism that it's no longer a question of being a moderate in that party.... We can't forget the president's speech to the world in the days following 9/11; there's no middle ground, he said, you're either with us or against us. He wasn't talking just to the Islamic fundamentalists, or the Arab states. He was talking to Americans too, telling us if we didn't support him and his administration then we were his enemies.
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