Mike Steele Explained

Michael Steele is saying he'd been had.

BALTIMORE - Lt. Gov. Michael Steele insisted on Wednesday that a Washington Post columnist was trying “to stick his finger in my eye and in the eye of the president” when he quoted Steele’s remarks criticizing President Bush and the Republican Party, attributing them to an unnamed Republican Senate candidate.

In a column by Dana Milbank in Monday’s Post, an unnamed candidate, later confirmed as Steele, was quoted as being highly critical of the Iraq war, the handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the Republicans in Congress. He said running as a Republican is “an impediment. It’s a hurdle I have to overcome ... I’ve got an ‘R’ here, a scarlet letter.”

Steele and his aide complained that all his positive references to President Bush were left out of the column.

Well...duh. Who told Mike that the media was a Republican's friend? Scarlet letter indeed...

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