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?...

Michael Steele: Voter ID Rhetoric Is 'Irresponsible,' Party Needs New Approach To Black Voters

By Gene Demby

August 31, 2012 | Huffington Post

URL: http://huff.to/PHBJq3

Steele: Republicans faint when I ask, 'Mind if I whip this out?'

OK, it's one thing when a big lefty lib like yours truly says Republicans don't want black Americans in their party, but it's another thing when the head of the Republican National Committee, a black man, says it. The truth hurts. Ouch!

(On a separate note, what kind of self-hating Uncle Tom wants to be the head of a party that is afraid of him? White America may be as silly as Rock Ridge, but this is not Blazing Saddles, and Michael Steele is not in it for the laughs.)

Steele: White Republicans Are 'Scared Of Me'

By Rachel Slajda

November 9, 2009 | TPM LiveWire

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, speaking in an interview this weekend about attracting black voters to his party, said white Republicans have been scared of him.

The Hill reports that Steele was appearing on NewsOne's Washington Watch on Sunday when the host, Roland Martin, asked him about bringing in more African-American voters to the Republican party.

"One of the criticisms I've always had is Republicans -- white Republicans -- have been scared of black folks," Martin said.

"You're absolutely right. I mean I've been in the room and they've been scared of me," Steele said. "I'm like, 'I'm on your side' and so I can imagine going out there and talking to someone like you, you know, [say] 'I'll listen.' And they're like, 'Well.'"

Watch the video here.