Backstabber: WashPost Features Michael Steele Trashing New Conservative Black GOP Nominee in Virginia

May 24th, 2013 11:34 AM

On Friday morning – six days after the GOP nominating convention – The Washington Post finally visually acknowledged the Virginia Republicans, those alleged Obamaphobic Tea Party racists, nominated a black minister as their candidate for Lieutenant Governor. The first picture of Rev. E.W. Jackson was on the front page, under the headline “An exciting, challenging turn for Va. Republicans.”

But liberals are enjoying who reporters Paul Schwartzman and Errin Whack found to attack Rev. Jackson as “101 Ways to Lose An Election” – former RNC chairman Michael Steele, sounding very much like the MSNBC contributor that he is:

Instead of promoting their new ticket, Republicans have answered for Jackson’s once calling gays “perverted” and “sick” and saying Planned Parenthood has been “far more lethal” to blacks “than the KKK.”

“The Republicans I’m talking to are saying, ‘What the hell are they doing in Virginia?’ ” said Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “Is this, ‘101 ways to lose an election’? You’re coming out of the gate with comments everyone has to explain. You’re wasting a lot of time and energy batting that back when you should be doing other things to get the guy known.”

Although unknown to many Republicans, Jackson in recent years has built a following among the most activist of Virginia’s conservatives, many of whom were delegates at the convention. But Republicans are now concerned, Steele said, that Jackson will turn off the party’s own voters. “You can’t have a situation where Republicans say, ‘You know what? I can’t have this’ and they stay home or vote for the other guy,” he said.

How does Steele sound any different than Rev. Al Sharpton in this quote package? How does Steele reconcile the idea of electing more black Republicans and diversifying the party by dumping on this nominee? At least Jackson was elected.

How does the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland forget that he was merely selected, and was considered too socially conservative to win black voters in 2002? The Washington Post then found Steele saying he was pro-life and pro-death penalty, unlike his running mate Bob Ehrlich: "It's part of my religious upbringing," Steele said. "I will follow the next governor. I will argue my beliefs when asked."

Apparently, Steele threw out his religious upbringing when he started attending the same cable-news Church of Obama as Rev. Sharpton. The Post is enjoying these quotes too much to point out that Steele’s personal election record has two statewide losses and one win.