MD-Sen: Steele (R) Campaign Falling Apart
Posted by on February 16, 2006 at 09:44 AM
The Washington Post reports:
The man hired to run Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's campaign for U.S. Senate has resigned, an internal move disclosed for the first time yesterday in the aftermath of an off-balance week for the Republican candidate.
Campaign manager Graham M. Shafer made a quiet exit earlier this month, citing family obligations, a campaign spokesman confirmed yesterday. His departure highlighted a growing tug within the Steele campaign between the candidate's Washington advisers and his coterie of longtime loyalists from Maryland, of which Shafer was one.
Absolutely typical, when a campaign begins to implode, folks from Washington swarm upon it thinking they know exactly what's best to resuscitate the effort. Changes in major campaign personnel are often seen as a sign of instability within to outside observers. Unfortunately for the old campaign manager, I'm not sure how much of this is really his fault. It was only last week that that Steel compared stem cell research to the Holocaust -- a move that caused quite an uproar outside, and apparently inside, the Steele camp -- setting advisor vs. advisor in their misguided attempts at defending their boss. Only problem is, you can really defend remarks like that.
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Steele's comment about stem cell research show:
1. he knows nothing about stem cell research,
2. he will put politics before science,
3. he would not fully support stem cell research if elected, just like his boss, Gov. Ehrlich,
4. he really thinks like an ultra-conservative hypocrit, and is way out-of-touch with Maryland.
5. he's another politician that will put religious special interest groups before our right for modern medical treatment/research,
6. He's really ANTI-business because they ranthe bio-tech industry out of the state because the companies would not get support, so they went to states that will support research.
7. His agenda is that of the religious right (sic), and he wants to outlaw abortion by making the embryo classified as a human being with more rights than the mother.
We must stop ALL candidates that oppose embryonic stem cell research. These are religious fanatics that want to be seen as moderate. They don't care about Americans' health, pain/suffering, and future. I doubt they would even care if they knew that many troops need to regenerate skin tissue from explosions. They are IMMORAL.
I'M DISGUSTED AND OUTRAGED THAT THESE MORONS THINK THAT BEING "PRO-LIFE" IS GROUNDS TO BE ANTI-STEM CELL RESEARCH. IN TRUTH, ANTI-EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH IS ANTI-LIFE. WHAT HYPOCRITS AND IDIOTS!
The Republicans usually stand by their candidates right or wrong. Our people didn't defend Clinton in his wrong doing neither did the Democrats defend the wrong doing of the Republicans to put the pornography of Clinton's testamony on the TV, radio, and the computer for all the little children to see. Clinton tried to clean it up as much as he could without outright lying but they said he lied anyway. He knew the little children would be asking their parents about what is sexual gradification, etc.?
There is a time to defend your Party Leaders and there is a time to be silent. Sometimes we get it mixed up and so do the Republicans but you never hear the Republicans blasting Newt Gingrage, or all those speakers that they walked through the Speaker of the House before finding one that hadn't had an affair with their Intern. There were many more Republicans that had done worse like Henry Hide and others but they didn't make them step down? They will protect an evil Official if they raise a lot of money. Like Bob Barr he gave a speech about the evils of abortion then drove his wife to get an abortion. That is why so many people say the Republicans are "so called Christians." If they truly believe a Fetus receives their soul upon conseption instead of when they breath the breath of life as the Bible says, then why do they get abortions on the sly? Why did our Founding Fathers say the Black humans are 3/5 of a Person? If the Blacks have a soul are they not human? And they also said there should be Liberty and Justice for all. But they didn't offer everyone Liberty and Justice. What about the witch hunts, the Crusades,slavery,and all the evil things groups have done in the name of God? Is the same God of Isaac the same God of Ishmael, and is that the same God of Jesus Christ? Why did each one give different instructions by the same God? One to kill, one to treat others as you would like to be treated, one to do good to your enemys and to pray for them. And to live in peace with all Nations? I don't get why God would tell the Moslems to kill the Christians and Israel and tell Israel to kill and the Christians to live at peace with all Nations? Yes he told Israel to tell the Moslems to know the Lord and to keep his statutes for thy good? God told the Christians to go tell all Nations to believe in Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. The first time in Bible History that mankind has been offered forgiveness of sins. The Covenant with Israel only set the sins forward for a year. But when Jesus Christ died it gave all Nations forgiveness of sins if they believed God and Obeyed his word. Paradise is a holding place for the soul until the Judgement day where everyone will face God and be judged by your faith and obedience to God's Word. God's Word is the Old and the New Testament! The Old Covenant is for our learning that we may know how exceedingly sinful sin is! The New Testament tells all Nations how to get forgiveness for our sins and how all Nations can live in peace with each other. Maybe Ishlam was good for their generations. Just like the Covenant was good for Israel's Generations. All generations are past and we are in the latter days. Now all Nations are under the latter days with the New Testament.
There is no stem cell research -
holocaust "problem".
In fact, there was no holocaust, only a choice
made by a German man in private to solve
his "problem".
There is no human life at conception.
In fact, there is only a choice made by a women
in private to solve her "problem".
There is no "problem."
Everything is OK.
Morality is only relative.
Don't bother yourself with what's right.
Do what's easy.
Agree with everyone;
Because then if you dont, you'll be a right-
wing, religious, idiotic moron.
With every abortion pill a woman takes, and with every human baby embryo destroyed by a scientist, the West leaves itself more vulnerable to the world wide Jihad movement. Unless our leaders can create a "clone", or "robotic" army, who is going to fight the Jihadist?
Do you really think nuclear capability can deter them? Once Iran develops theirs, what is stopping Saudi Arabia, Eygpt, and Turkey from joining the club? Can Israel fight all of them by themselves?
Can the cartoonist stop the Islamic reconquest of Europe?
Wake up and smell the "arabic" coffee. The secular-atheists are the next Holocaust. This time Israel will be saying "I told you so", and America will have to return to "Great Power" status as the Chinese and Indians will welcome all the Catholics who flee post-secular-Europe as refugees.
Oh yeah right! Like that's gonna happen! See guys, this is the exact kind of fear-mongering that the Republican Party and Conservatives have been putting out for decades! That is total BS! Muslims will NOT take over Europe, and, if anything, that Danish cartoonist has only made it MORE likely that Europe will be attacked!
Do you know what the bounty on this guy is now? $25,000 and a car by that mosque. AND a jewelers' association said they would give a MILLION dollars for his life! Geez man, YOU need to get your facts straight!
And c'mon, the Chinese welcoming Catholics fleeing from Europe? I thought that you guys claimed that China didn't allow for the free pratice of religion! They don't, and India is a Hindu/Muslim nation which is already overpopulated, there's no way they would let you in there either! Geez, the GOP must be in total spin mode for people to believe total garbage like that! Where do you guys GET these crazy ideas!?
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