The New York Times reports today that GOP leaders across the nation could be on the verge of electing the party's first black chairman after Tennessee's Chip Saltsman showed old bigoted times are not forgotten among Republicans.
Saltsman is not expected to win the chairmanship and will never live down the all the ridicule heaped upon him for his racist act. Here is how The Times described the fool:
Mr. Saltsman declined to renounce or apologize for sending out the parody song, saying it was a harmless joke. (Mr. Blackwell and Mr. Steele said they found nothing offensive about it.) Nonetheless, he said, the episode had hurt him.
“I don’t think it helped,” he said. “But I think we’ve gotten past it and people kind of see it for what it is, and what it was, and now my challenge is to talk about the future of the Republican Party.”
All that the GOP can agree on concerning the six candidates is that Ronald Reagan was the greatest Republican and it must secure more minority votes. Some see a black chairman as helping with African-American votes. Yeah, right.
Others want to go after Hispanic voters such as myself. Hey guys, it might have helped to have had the first, non-Cuban Hispanic chairman of the RNC. Just a suggestion. Cubans aren't part of the growth in the Hispanic electorate,
Republicans, Democrats -- both are disgusting and both betray. I stand by my fierce independence.
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