Saturday, September 1, 2012

Michael Steele was too sensitive, pragmatic to lead GOP?

Gee, in this interview Michael Steele sounds kind of normal.  No wonder the GOP fired him as party chair and replaced him with a white guy. 

Maybe Steele is not just sensitive to issues of race, but can also read the writing on the wall:

The Republican nominee [Mitt Romney] is doing so poorly with non-whites -- a recent poll even put his share of the black vote at 0 percent -- that, as reported in the National Journal, he will probably need to win three of every five white voters in order to win the White House. ("This is the last time anyone will try to do this," a Republican strategist told the Journal, of trying to win the presidency with a primarily white coalition.)

This is the last time anyone will try to do this.  Wow.  So we're witnessing the end of an era, folks.  I wonder if it'll work this time?...


By Gene Demby
August 31, 2012 | Huffington Post

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