Maryland Democrats bertate Steele, not Deans' Stance

The Washington Times ^ | June 11, 2005 | S.A. Miller

[Grand Old Partisan]

The Maryland Democratic Party is calling for an apology from Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele for endorsing a book by an author who accuses Democrats of exploiting blacks but is declining to seek an apology from national party Chairman Howard Dean for describing Republicans as a 'white Christian party.'

Mr. Lierman this week began circulating a letter asking fellow Democrats to sign a petition calling on Mr. Steele, a Republican, to apologize for praising the book Back to Basics for the Republican Party, by Michael Zak. The book celebrates the Republican Party's anti-slavery founders and urges Republicans to challenge Democratic entitlement to the black vote.

"The Democrats can dish it out but they sure can't take it," Mr. Zak said of Democrats' silence over Mr. Dean's comments while calling for Mr. Steele to apologize.

[Grand Old Partisan]

I am the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of the GOP which celebrates the party's forgotten heritage of civil rights achievement. As I say in my speeches to Republican groups around the country, "How can we expect voters to place their confidence in us when we lack confidence in our own heritage?" To my knowledge, party leaders did nothing at all to celebrate the fact that last year was the 150th anniversary of the Republican Party, founded to oppose the pro-slavery policies of the Democrats.

[BenLurkin]

"The Democrats can dish it out but they sure can't take it,"

[Unam Sanctam]

The history of the Democratic Party on race relations is appalling, but then I'm an proud New England Yankee Republican whose ancestors faught for the Union...

[Grand Old Partisan]

Two New England Yankee Unionist Republicans are on the cover of the book.

[Ramonan]

And we're goona take blah blah blah... YEEEAAAHHH!

[jrushing]

Michael Zak's dangerous, deceptive and racially divisive commentary.

Amazing, criticize a democrat & suddenly you are, "dangerous, deceptive and racially divisive."
I gotta get that book!