Most GOP operatives think that tapping Michael Steel as chair of the party was a mistake. Why? Because as J. Martin of Politico put it, "Just in the past month, he’s drawn fire for giving paid speeches, not calling major donors, writing a book that criticizes the GOP, not alerting members of Congress about the book, promoting the book and, worst of all, saying in a national television interview that his party couldn’t re-take the House this fall." Fine. Get rid of him. Nope. Because the guy’s black, the GOP feels stuck - can’t fire a black guy. Noted one party strategist,
"You’re not going to dump the first African-American chairman. That’s the only reason. Otherwise, he’d be gone."
What phonies! What back-handed racists! What an insult to blacks! We expect the same from the left who use blacks and race as a lever (but then sometimes get caught) - Reid described Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect." Clinton tells the murderer Ted Kennedy that, referring to Obama, "A few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee." Too much.
We’re all made of the same stuff. Color is incidental to us and to most folks we know.
The sooner Republicans and Democrats stop treating blacks like cripples, the sooner our so-called "race problem" will be seen for the invention it is.
Robert Craven
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they need to find a black replacement. serves m right for not doing a better job of qualifying talent. he's a good guy but totally his own man. the other thing they can do is guide him through thought leadership. now we'll see how smart they are..we know traditionally they're rich old white guys and tend to loose when street smarts are required. a third party sentiment seems clearly brewing with the Ts who like me think "a pox on both houses" as they've each proved to be ineffective at gov't and even worse at mgmnt (BO is setting new records of course).. The Rs need to figure out how to let the Ts redefine them and get with the modern conservative movement which starting with both Bushes Baked Beans they have failed.
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