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T, Hampton, VA — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:52:18 GMT

Republicans would rather DIE than have a black man run their party, trust me there is NO way they will vote for Steele!

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Sam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:56:03 GMT

So much for a slow Friday news day. And it started with Saltsman dropping out featured on governmentality.
http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/01/chip-saltsman-pulls-out-of-rnc-race.html

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MSierra, SF — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:56:49 GMT

Mike Dawson is the guy who said he got into politics to oppose FORECD BUSING

He's been standiong up for white people ever since

A PERFECT GOP chairman
(but, where's David Duke ? He'd be even better)

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Eric, Salinas, CA — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:59:25 GMT

You'd think that the repugnant ones could have selected a new chair by now but then they're so incompetent they'll be at it all day long to prolong the agony of victory for whatever chump gets the booby prize called the RNC chair. Still it is gratifying to see yet another bushwhacker crony biting the dust, now that's change we can believe in.

Looks like the RNC isn't progressive enough to select Steele. Nothing says white supremacy like some dimwit racist from South Carolina. What kind of idiotic name is Katon? Did "Blamey Whinehouse" Palin name him too?

Prison for rove and the banking robber barons!

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Eric, Denver, CO — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:59:46 GMT

"It also ironically sets up the first African American to lead the Republican Party against a party chairman from the South, whose country club formerly was all-white."

What is ironic about this?

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Anna Molly — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:59:48 GMT

I see what's happening here. This is like THE STING, right? Only in this case, the admittedly out-of-touch crowd will end up pulling it out at the wire. And nobody sees it coming until it's too late.

If that's their strategery, they're doomed. STILL doomed, I mean.

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Just Askin' — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:03:58 GMT

Anyone call Rush to see who he wants? That should give "whoever" the right amount of votes in a New York minute.

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Msierra, SF — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:08:17 GMT

Free American Tehachapi Ca, Barney :
'...Changing Ted's diapers...'

The only person in the Senate who wears diapers is
'Family Values' playboy, Sen David Vitter (R-LA)

But he gets his hooker girl-friend to put his diapers on him

(after he gets *ss backwards)

PS
Barney, are you a purple Dinosaur ??

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Liberal hypocrisy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:08:51 GMT

I personally would like to see Steele win and bring some much needed diversity to the GOP. But to all the hypocritical liberals out there...you're the ones who have attacked every black conservative through the years (Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice...etc) and called them "Uncle Tom" or worse. It's hypocritical to support the promotion of minorities ONLY if they're liberal. I hope and pray for more black and hispanic conservatives to arise. Then we can debate on issues and ideas and not on skin color.

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Kelly (from Pittsburgh) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:13:37 GMT

Looks like Duncan didn't have much control over his "insiders". I think the next round will determine this thing. I just can't see the party of the primarily South choosing an African American from the North East. I mean this is not a token position such as VP - this person needs to be able to fundraise from the GOP base.

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Ron Indiana — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:16:34 GMT

Think I will put my nickel on Dawson. Pat Buchanan, Rush Limberger, and all the right wing nuts will not go for Steele.

Anna Molly: I enjoy your comments.

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Amy B Portland, ME — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:18:33 GMT

Oh my God, If the Republicans elect a Black Chairman,
who will understand what the white people in Arkansas are going through? Will they let Joe Biden understand them since they claimed Obama couldn't?

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Esther Wagner, Simpsonville, SC — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:37:19 GMT

Katon Dawson is a conservative with strong ethics. He is also one of the nicest guys I know. He straightened out the financial mess that our former state party chair left us in. He would be a spectacular RNC chairman. The RNC needs to be brought back to it's roots if we are going to recapture the heart of this country. We have to stop being Democrat Lites and start holding firm to our ideals of personal freedom/responsiblity and less government. "Compassionate Conservatism" meant only that we caved everything to the liberals and it got us to this mess. Katon recognizes our failures and will help return us to the right. I don't care what color anyone if they are right on the issues. I know Katon and I know he's the right man for the job.

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Nancy R., Boston, MA — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:00:33 GMT

Mr. Dawson is a member of Forest Lake Country Club, a whites-only country club. It is impossible for anyone to believe that Dawson was uaware of the club's discriminatory policies towards blacks and minorities until 2008.

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Bobby Jarrell — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:58:55 GMT

Hey you guys that think in slanted terms. The Legislative Black Caucus would not allow white Jewish Democrat Representative Cohen from Memphis into their inner circle. Where is your protest reagarding this situation that is on display in the very halls of Congress every day? Blacks basically did not support Michael Steele the last time he ran for office in Maryland. The reason...they prefered a white liberal over a black conservative. I am white and was pulling for Michael beginning the day he began seeking the RNC chairmanship. Good luck to you liberals who only think in racist terms.