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Michael Steele - not really a party loyalist, is he?

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2006/07/michael_steele_unveiled.html

After hours of speculation, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's campaign acknowledged yesterday afternoon that Steele was the anonymous Republican quoted in Dana Milbank's column in the Washington Post on Tuesday.

The column, for those who missed it, described a Republican from a blue state declaring that his party affiliation was "an impediment", that the war in Iraq "didn't work" and the response to Katrina, "a monumental failure of government."

After a flurry of guessing--much of it centered on Steele--his campaign staffed fessed up

He speaks well, though.