Funny how all these GOPers were wandering around whining about people voting for Obama out of white guilt alone. 

Now they want to *prove* that people only voted for Obama because he was black by gettin themselves a darkie because people vote for darkies.

Yes, I think it really is that stupid.  They think it is better to be stupid than admit that their worldview has sucked geese, crashed, and burned.

I’m betting Duncan pulls it out, if only because the Republicans are so resistant to change.

Where is the Republican Steve Jobs?  Maybe Republicans aren’t the entrepreneurers that they fancy their ilk to be because they ARE Republicans???

Michael Steele is perceived as too moderate (meaning he’s rational, not batsh*t crazy), and even worse, he’s associated with members of the Log Cabin Republicans! ZOMG!!!FAGLVR!/! See my post, “LCRs crapped on again in RNC party chair dust up.”

Please, please let it be Blackwell.

If I was in charge of the GOP, I might just try to go a couple of years without a chair and see if it works out.

But without a top-down authority to tell everyone else what to think, they wouldn’t be Republicans. Just libertarians with a lot of extra time on their hands.

I’m calling it for Steele.

Second ballots had a tie between Steele and Duncan. I hope it lasts past 5 pm just to see where they finish (the Capitol Hilton is kicking them out at that time to set up for a wedding).

Saul Anuzis sent out a mass email that wished everyone on the Michigan GOP’s list “Happy Holidays.”

I bet he got some interesting responses filled with less than good cheer.

I cast my voter for the reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan.  Why bother with the fakes, imitators or also-rans when you can get the real St. Ronnie Raygun!

...reading that, I suddenly realized that “Dirk Steele” would make a great name either for an action hero or a porn star…

As for the Republicans, aren’t they handicapped enough already?...

The just picked Steele. I knew they would go the token route.

“The just picked Steele. I knew they would go the token route.”

Now all they need to do is run Palin in 2012, with a Hispanic or Asian VP and Operation Tokenize will be complete!  (Oh, and put out a contract on Dick Armey…)

Damn.

I was really hoping that they would have gone with Katon “I belonged to a whites only country club for 12 years and became a Republican because they bussed black kids to my high school” Dawson.

Still… this feels very much like the Palin pick, and motivated by the EXACT same thinking.

Popular female Democratic candidate barely loses nomination, so name a totally anti-woman woman to the GOP presidential ticket because, of course all the wimmins will just naturally flock to us.

Now, we have an ultra popular black president, so the GOP picks the black guy, because of course, all black political leaders are the same, so surely they’ll siphon away African-American votes in 2010 because of this.  Or something.

Still, there is some delight in this… the folks who don’t even attempt to hide their racism have to be seething right now, as evidenced by the first Freeper comment after Steele won:

<blockquote>“I’m surprised they didn’t elect Morgan Freeman.”</quote>

Who would have thought that BOTH major political parties would be run by African-Americans in 2009?

Steele had the nomination wrapped up the minute Saltsman got caught with the “Magic Negro” tape.

“Steele had the nomination wrapped up the minute Saltsman got caught with the “Magic Negro” tape.

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Funny how the magic negro card would have won the Republican chairmanship awhile back. Still though Steele has got to dodge the token card.

Funny how the magic negro card would have won the Republican chairmanship awhile back.

Well, I guess that is “progress” of a kind. Like I said in a comment at the top post, the Republicans have finally made it to the late 1980s.