GOP: You Can't Out-Race The Party Of The KKK

There's an article about black Republican National Committee members not supporting Michael Steele that includes the most telling line about his leadership:

Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, Senate candidate and state party chairman, was touted as Republicans' response to the first black president, Democrat Barack Obama.

This use of the race card by a "post-racial" Right has been glaring from the start - Democrats have got a black leader so (rather than finding someone truly effective) we've got to have a black leader - and has been part-and-parcel of Steele's weakness:

When Steele announced his bid for re-election on a conference call, he concluded by saying, "Who you elect as our next chairman will speak volumes about our willingness to truly be the party of Lincoln," according to the Washington Times. A prominent member of the RNC, James Bopp Jr., complained to the Times that Steele had used "the race card." Steele responded by calling Bopp "an idiot" and accusing him of bitterness over a consulting contract the RNC canceled.

Sure. And so the race game goes on. If these are the rules the Right wants to play by, then this quote - by Ada Fisher, the black RNC committeewoman from North Carolina - is even more damning to "the party of Lincoln":

"Nobody asked the black members of the RNC what they felt, and I don't know that the other people were courted or asked for their votes."

That's the way it looks from here, too, on the Left and the Right:

If whites want to show they're non-racial, then they throw up a black man who puts his race first (Barack Obama, Michael Steele, Zo/Macho Sauce) but - if they've got blacks who are truly striving to be non-racial - then they'll take that as a signal to ignore them because, we guess, those blacks have to also learn (for the billionth time) that life just ain't fair.

(And, of course, whites asking - and listening to - those blacks about how to get to our "post-racial" ideal is out of the question. They know what they're doing,...) *Sigh*

There's apparently no way for most whites (grappling with a post-racial ideal) to understand how real inclusion works and/or to establish a level playing field. They're still too caught up in race to escape it.

Which is all extremely depressing.

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Don't Look, Mammy, Just Don't Even Look

"The Republican National Committee paid $1,946 for a gathering at a sex-themed Hollywood club, which a group of young Republicans had visited without RNC approval. The money is to be paid back.

Now it turns out the RNC inadvertently listed a phone-sex number on a fundraising letter sent to potential donors. People who tried to call the committee were instead offered 'live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl' for $2.99 a minute."

-- The Associated Press

The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands, Indeed

"Steele,...hasn’t performed nearly as well as I’d expected."

-- Glenn Reynolds (the law dork who, we guess, looked at the photo above and thought "inspiring") being all that we've expected him - and Michael Steele - to be, on Instapundit.

With (Black) Friends Like These,...

"My parents taught me when I was growing up that you always stood behind people who defended you, you never abandoned people who stood up for you and who defended you against assault,...

Mr. Steele, we do like to entertain people here. The audience is very smart, sir. They know the difference between entertainment, and they know the difference between deadly serious issues that affect their country. Don't underestimate the intelligence of this audience or Republicans and conservatives generally. The biggest problem with all of you who live inside the Beltway is you look out over America and you think you see idiocy and unsophisticated people, ignorant people, and when you're looking at liberal Democrats, largely you're correct, but your own voters are every bit as informed, involved, engaged, and caring, if not more so than you are. We don't care, first and foremost, about the success of the Republican Party. We care about the United States of America and its future, because we cherish it and love it, and we know what it is that made it the greatest nation on earth, and we don't hear you articulating that you understand that, not just you, Mr. Steele, but hardly anybody else in Washington, DC. So send those fundraising requests out, and, by the way, when you send those fundraising requests out, Mr. Steele, make sure you say, 'We want Obama to succeed.' So people understand your compassion. Republicans, conservatives, are sick and tired of being talked down to, sick and tired of being lectured to, and until you show some understanding and respect for who they are, you're going to have a tough time rebuilding your party. "

-- Rush Limbaugh, finally unloading on Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, for telling D.L. Hughley (and Public Enemy's Chuck D) Limbaugh's just an "incendiary" and "ugly" entertainer, on Rush Limbaugh.com.

Michael Steele As RNC Chair: Yawn

"Michael Steele officially threw his hat in the ring for the RNC chair, a position that has already generated a lot of speculation after the second straight Republican defeat in national elections. Steele confirmed his decision,...on Hannity & Colmes last night. He said the past election was the culmination of Republican self-doubt."

-- Ed Morrissey, failing to notice how conventional and mediocre Michael Steele is, and, thus, blowing so much Hot Air.

Michael Steele's a nice guy but come ON. It's time for the party to look outside the usual ranks (their other choice was - surprise! - Newt Gingrich). It's time for the GOP to look to us bloggers, and other "Joe The Plumber" types with a fire under them, because the game's been changed by cultism and it's going to take a new spirit of conservatism that understands this landscape - not just conservatives, or conservatives-in-blackface - to turn this sucker around.

Look, I've done this: I've got black people to think in a new way about conservative principles, and even got them to want to run me for office (which I want no part of) and if the Republican Party is gonna get it's mojo back, then TMR thinks it needs to find more new passionate people to plot it's course and deliver it's message.

And, sorry kids, but "nice guy" Michael Steele ain't it.