Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize winner, synidcated columnist and editorial page editor of The Atlanta Constitution, gets it right with respect to Michael Steele's ill-equipped run for the position of Chairman of the RNC at the urging of the Republicans. Obviously the Repubicans' desperation to answer the call of the first black President of the United States back-fired, as expected. This act of desperation of the Republicans is the stark reminder of the same thing the Republicans did when they brought in the other black man, Alan Keyes, to run against Obama. Needless to say, this race-based attempt failed miserably and Obama won the election by an astounding 73% of the vote. Since Republicans never learn their lessons, and are always on the wrong side of history and reality, they repeated this tactic again with the black man Michael Steele debacle. To this lack of reality on the part of the Republicans we can also add to this ignorance bringing in Sarah Palin to answer the woman-to-woman call as a strategy against Hillary Clinton.
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On the panel segment on This Week, Cynthia Tucker explained why we're not likely to see Michael Steele go even after this latest dust up where so many are calling for him to resign as chairman of the RNC. In her column in April, she wrote about Michael Steele being an affirmative action hire gone bad, and now the Republicans are stuck with him.
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TAPPER: Cynthia, you once called -- and let me underline -- you once called Michael Steele an affirmative action hire gone bad. What's your take on this?
TUCKER: Well, Michael Steele is a self-aggrandizing gaffe-prone incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black. Of course, the irony is that he never would have been voted in as chairman of the Republican Party were he not black.
Let's remember how the party wound up with Michael Steele. In November 2008, the party was devastated that the Democrats had elected the nation's first black president, while the Republican Party was stuck with being seen as largely the party of aging white people, with good reason, a party that was hostile to people of color, especially blacks and Latinos.
So the party needed a new face, preferably a face of color, and they didn't have very many officials to choose from, so they came up with Michael Steele. And it is very ironic, since the Republicans have been so critical of affirmative action, to watch them stuck with their affirmative action hire that they dare not get rid of, because that would generate even more controversy.
Note to Republicans: Not all black men/people are alike.
Note to Michael Steele: You never were, and never will be, truely welcomed into the Republican Party Country Club.