Steele: ?Positive remarks? about Bush were ignored

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele insisted on Wednesday that a Washington Post columnist was trying “to stick his finger in my eye and in the eye of the president” when he quoted Steele?s remarks criticizing President Bush and the Republican Party, attributing them to an unnamed Republican Senate candidate.

“It was an off-the-record conversation, as I understood it to be,” Steele said on WBAL radio?s Chip Franklin show. The interview with the conservative radio talk host was the only request for comment Steele granted Wednesday.