Richmond Myrick, the principal of Largo High School, is a registered Democrat in overwhelmingly Democratic Prince George's County next to Washington, D.C. He has not been active politically and is not recorded as having made any contributions to candidates for federal office. Yet recently, he stood in the parking lot of Prince George's Community College adjoining his school to introduce Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, whom he has endorsed for the U.S. Senate.
Myrick is African American, as are most students at Largo High. So is Steele. If enough non-political blacks follow Myrick's course, Steele will become the first black Republican elected to the Senate in 32 years. That is the Democrats' worst nightmare. Democratic dominance in Maryland has been based on maintaining a hammerlock over the state's substantial African-American vote. Steele threatens that domination.
Steele sees national implications and put it to me this way in a conversation before the recent rally in Upper Marlboro: "It's a breaking point. I've heard the talk: 'Hillary, Bill, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, all are coming in to campaign against you. They can't bear to see you win this race.' If I win this race, I am sure that the whole dynamic changes."
And here's GOP Bloggers' take:
There are probably 50 House seats the Democrats hold by grace of 90% or the black vote, and probably a few Democratic Senators who owe their seats to a heavy black vote in their favor.
The Democrats know this - and thus they will pull out all the stops in their efforts to defeat Steele. Already they have been hurling racial slurs at him, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has fired some staffers who illegally obtained Steele's credit report. Don't for a moment think that because Steele is clean as a whistle that this will stop them - in the end, if they have to, they'll just make up slanders about him. For the Democrats, nothing would be more disasterous than to have a black Republican rise in the eyes of America's black voters.
With this in mind, please take a trip over to Mr. Steele's website - donate money, and if you live in Maryland, volunteer to help out. Its time to get our fellow Americans who happen to be black off the liberal plantation. Time for an alternative to the Democrat's soft bigotry of low expectations.
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