Reply #21: Don't be so sure...

[TrueFunkSoldier]

I am a black woman in this state and I know the power that the mega-black churches yield. I can see Mike Steele attempting to form an alliance with these power elites and using race, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-abortion issues to play on the fears of 'fundie-Christian' fascists in the state. He was successful in Ohio, getting black fundamentalists there to vote for Bush. And he's trying to appeal to the black connies here in Maryland, too--in P.G. County especially!! It's going to take progressives of all stripes and the underclass, an organized, grassroots counteractive strategy, to defeat this chump who poses as a Christian but is only an opportunist of the worst kind. I still don't think it's going to be an easy feat.