They really just don't get it. This article is further proof why.

Apparently there thought process seems to be:

1) Hey we've got two black guys, that's great. They're black right?

2) Yeah, why not keep the Magic Negro tape dude in the running. What the heck?

3) Oh my gosh, our fourth guy said something inane about the Supreme Court. Does it have anything to do with race? Doesn't it? Oh my goodness. Let's start sweating race now.

Say what you want about the Democrats and the distance this country still has to go, but the GOP leadership really should make us all feel better about ourselves and how far we have advanced on race. It's like they're living in their own special fantasy land.

I can't wait to see what they try to pull out in 2010. It just gets funnier and funnier every election.

They really just don't get it. This article is further proof why.

Apparently there thought process seems to be:

1) Hey we've got two black guys, that's great. They're black right?

2) Yeah, why not keep the Magic Negro tape dude in the running. What the heck?

3) Oh my gosh, our fourth guy said something inane about the Supreme Court. Does it have anything to do with race? Doesn't it? Oh my goodness. Let's start sweating race now.

Say what you want about the Democrats and the distance this country still has to go, but the GOP leadership really should make us all feel better about ourselves and how far we have advanced on race. It's like they're living in their own special fantasy land.

I can't wait to see what they try to pull out in 2010. It just gets funnier and funnier every election.

you know it's coming.

the more the GOP will follow your lead.

You folks?

Who you mean, "you folks"?

You people.

Ken Blackwell has solid conservative support and direct experience with ACORN election theft machinery. He will win the chairmanship on merit.

I would say one reason the GOP took such a beating from voters who are described as members of minority groups is that many such families have members serving in Iraq or Afghanistan or who sevred in Iraq or Afghanistan, and came back and told their friends and family what a crock the war was, and how shabbily they were treated by corrupt and greedy contractors, and by a Veterans Administration larded with political appointees. And that's not even getting into Stop-Lioss policies and unexpected extensions of war tours.

Now, if I'm right, or somewhere in the vicinity of being right, then naming a black guy to head the party or to run for office on the Republican ticket wouldn't do jack diddly squat. I mean, could you imagine in the last five or six years that black parents sitting at the breakfast table (to use a favorite Joe Biden image) would say "The government's sending our son back for a third tour in Iraq, but, hey, they've got some black folks involved in sending him back there!"

Or I could be wrong about this. Opinions?

It's a shame that the Right just doesn't get it in this country.

Identity politics aren't made by the oppressed group. They're made by oppressors, and the fact of oppression.

Take the Irish, for example (I'm largely Irish in ancestry). When they first came over, they banded together and ran an identity politics that puts current ones to shame.

Why? The answer to that is easy; it had a lot to do with "No Irish need apply" signs, "No Irish or dogs," etc.

When that stuff disappeared, a lot of Irish identity politics did too. Not all--in part because the oppression of Irish continued to be an issue--just not here, that's all.

So if you want identity politics to disappear, stop being members (or tolerating!) whites-only country clubs, the CCC, and the like.

Without victimization, there are no victims. Without oppression, there are no oppressed. Without racism, there's damned little identity politics.

Ken Blackwell, that 'house negro' who disenfranchised thousands of black voters in Ohio with nefarious ballot rules and inadequate voting booths in black neighborhoods? Yeah, he's just the guy to reach out to minority voters.

Are these people insane??????

Who chooses the person he or she is going to vote for based on the identity of the RNC or DNC chair?

"Do you want to vote for Obama or McCain?"

"I don't know - let me look at the race of the party chairs."

The big mistake the Republicans could make by picking Blackwell (because he's, well, black) is that Blackwell does not have strong support among black people. The best argument for that is the 2006 Ohio gubanatorial contest, in which Strickland easily won all of the heavily black (and solidly Democrat) districts by at least as wide a margin as in previous races. If you wanted to find someone who truly represented Ohio's black population, you'd look no further than the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones.

So go ahead and make that choice, GOP. I'll take Tim Kaine over Blackwell any day of the week.

Because they'll never do any sort of real introspection. Their thought process is:

"Hey, a black guy won the elction, maybe if we pick a black guy too, we'll win!"

Actual policy not a factor.

Due to his failures and his public foolishness. The sourpuss greasy-gray-hair, nasty-accent guy from South Carolina is a national turnoff.

Honestly, Mike Huckabee plays better with Northerners, maybe even with African Americans, because he appears to be a smart human being with a sense of humor. Why is he not in the running?

Very few people of any race know or care who the RNC chair is. The repugs can put whoever they want there, but until they stop screwing up everything they touch and develop sincere and meaningful policies that appeal to the groups they want to attract, the GOP is going to be irrelevant, except maybe as an especially irritating pimple on the nation's backside.

Pawlenty seems pretty astute and respectable.

the big tent..