By Zamboni
Let's see.... do we cats detect a streak here?
A candidate for RNC Chair sends out a holiday CD that includes a song, "Barack the Magic Negro." A Republican committeewoman (that is, if, indeed, she IS a woman) sends an e-mail with a horrible "joke" about the African-American victims of Hurricane Katrina. Republicans then quickly elect an African American, a failed politician named Michael Steele, as their Chairman.
Now, an Orange County, California mayor has sent out an e-mail picturing the South Lawn of the White House as a watermelon patch, with the accompanying lament, "No Easter egg roll this year." The 65-year-old mayor is claiming he didn't know about any anti-black racial stereotypes that involve watermelons.
Why do we think the GOP has a serious problem? Is can't just be that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has thanked Chairman Steele this week for moderating a panel at CPAC with an enthusiastic "You da man! You da man!" No, unfortunately it goes deeper than that.
The Republican Party is reaping what Richard Nixon sowed, when he played on conservative racial fears with his "Southern Strategy." Now, 40 years later and 15 years after Nixon's death, the party is outmatched, outnumbered, outgunned and out of office.
The GOP thinks that the solution to this is to thrust forward minorities and women as their public faces: Steele, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin. But it won't work, because the monster under the bed keeps poking out its ugly head.
Good luck with that, guys!
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