GOP precinct chair Don Yelton did not receive the rebranding memo.
North Carolina Republican precinct chair Don Yelton was
forced into resigning after giving a
jaw-dropping interview to the Daily Show that aired earlier this week. It turns out even the North Carolina GOP was uncomfortable with having someone muse in public about the "lazy blacks" and who could or could not call people "ni--ers" these days.
Yelton isn't backing down, though. Like any true Republican, the only lesson he's taken from this incident is that everyone around him isn't sufficiently conservative.
“Was it worth it?” [Radio host Pete Kaliner] repeated.
“Yeah,” said Yelton, eventually. “I found the truth. The truth is, [The Republican Party's] got no guts.”
“I will gladly resign,” said Yelton. “I don’t want to be part of a group that is that…gutless,” he said, calling the North Carolina Republican party “embarrassing.”
I think at this point the "rebranding" ship has sailed. The Republican Party is indeed going to be embroiled in brand controversy through the '14 election season, but it's all coming from the Ted Cruz, Steve King, crazy-precinct-captain wing of the party. Darn you, fellow conservatives, for not properly defending the nice man who only wanted to share his thoughts on the
lazy blacks.
Update: More deep thoughts from Yelton, via The Wrap:
“When a n—– can use the word n—– and it not be considered racist, that’s the utmost racism in the world, and it’s hypocrisy,” he told me, a reporter calling to see if he’d been unfairly branded a racist.
Well, all righty then.