By SnifflesJust when we think the Republicans couldn't get any worse, they do.
One of the candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee — Chip Saltsman, who managed Mike Huckabee's unsuccessful run for President — sent fellow party members a holiday CD that included a song called "Barack the Magic Negro."
Saltsman — aptly nicknamed for those apparently nut-filled cheeks of his — defended his action, saying that songs like "Magic Negro" were "light-hearted political parody."
We've got news for you, Chipster. Songs that use terms that once were polite but have since passed into irony are not light-hearted. They're sarcastic now, and, in that spirit, not very nice. But we think you and your fellow faux-Christians already know that. And we're not surprised that a Republican would campaign for his Party's chairmanship in a manner completely tone-deaf to the current mood of the country.
RNC Chair candidates Michael Steele and Ken Blackwell — both African-Americans — could not be reached for comment.
We cats hope they soon are. We just have one question for them: What are you doing in that Party?
UPDATE: Incumbent RNC Chair Mike Duncan says he is "appalled." Of course, he's running for re-election, too, so maybe he has to say that. But we cats half-salute him with a switch of our tails, since he had the good sense to add, "The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our Party... [This] clearly does not move us in the right direction."
P.S. We're dying to hear what Mike Huckabee has to say. He's supporting Chipmunk Cheeks for Chair. We bet a bag of Whisker Lickin's that he defends him.
UPDATE II: Michigan GOP Chair Saul Anuzis says the CD "isn't funny" and is "in bad taste." But Ken Blackwell, proving he can outdo even Joe Lieberman in the self-loathing department, thinks it's just hunky-dory.
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