Only a week after McCain's defeat, the GOP already has good news for the upcoming election cycle.
Michael Steele, the prominent, articulate conservative former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has filed to run for chairman of the GOP. Rather than fight Newt Gingrich, who was also rumored to want the post, Steele has the former's explicit backing for the job.
Oh, yes. Besides being very good in front of cameras- he has often subbed for Sean Hannity on his Fox channel program- Steele happens to be black.
If race is what sells now in America, the GOP has an oar in that water, too.
Meanwhile, Gingrich's name is appearing as a possible 2012 Presidential contender. While there are some negatives about Gingrich, he is a very smart, sharp guy who has spent years in the wilderness reshaping and reforming his image. I've watched him countless times on Hannity & Colmes and O'Reilly. The man has something intelligent and informed to say on each and every major national issue.
If Newt can curb his lust for power, which got him into trouble as Speaker, lose some weight, and recruit a crack manager and staff, he'll be good to go for 2012. With Steele as his party chief, they could well be unbeatable.
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Dude I like your thinking put it uses race again. If America isn't suppose to regard race, if we are truely a colorless nation why does it matter that some black is running on the GOP ticket. I don't think that is good news. The GOP has been ripped apart in the media because it is just the "old white people party". What is wrong with that. Why is it wrong to have a old white people party?
I believe that America will never be a truely colorness nation. As long as their are different races, religions, and ethnicitys there will be conflict.
I have to disagree with you on this one.
Speaking personally, I am not a racist, and I completely support an America in which color is not a bar, nor a dimension, on which we will ultimately evaluate each other.
That does not, imo, mean ethnic groups cannot and should not enjoy their own social groups, in context.
That said, I think Michael Steele chairing the RNC would be terrific.
Like it or not, the GOP needs to clearly signal its larger-than-old-white-guys membership. Running Sarah Palin as VP, and having a respected former lieutenant governor, who happens to be black, as RNC chair, will begin to put unmistakable evidence before important non-white voter groups, e.g., hispanics.
We need not have conflict between races/ethnicities with respect to the direction and values for America in the future.
If the GOP does become a party of old white guys, it's finished as a force in politics.
And should be.
-CN
I'm not saying that you are a racist, my apologies. I am saying that this utopia "non-racial America", where race will not be acknowledge, will never exist. Now it's all good that hopefully the new RNC chairman will be black, but why should we celebrate that. We should have a Hispanic RNC chairman not a black chairman if we want to get those votes.
I know you did not say I was a racist. To be blunt, I was making a clear, explicit point of distancing myself from your position.
Like it or not, there is a perceived difference in the way our society treats blacks, who were almost exclusively brought here against their will, as, at the time, mere property.
Most hispanics have immigrated consensually.
Thus, GOP acceptance of blacks is qualitatively, categorically different than of hispanics and, perhaps as or more importantly, vice versa.
Thus, for an accomplished former state office holder of high regard who happens to be black to chair the RNC is no small thing.
It signals the GOP's being a welcome home for that group, and members of the group identifying explicitly with the GOP and its values.
-CN
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