Race Card

GOPAC chairman Frank Donatelli just sent out a Press Release crowing that 25 Democratic legislators have now switched parties and become Republican. "We are pleased with the decision of these men and women to leave the Democratic Party and join wi…

The Republican National Committee chairmanship race is on -- and so are the recriminations on race, Jonathan Martin reports. When Steele officially launched his re-election bid earlier this month, he said of the contest: "Who you elect as our ne…

Don't expect the Republican National Committee's two black members to support Chairman Michael Steele in his re-election bid in January. Ada Fisher, the black RNC committeewoman from North Carolina, has been an outspoken critic of Steele since she…

One of the absolutely strangest elements of modern American Conservatism is the extraordinary level of hypersensitivity it exhibits about the idea that any White People might be Racists. The view is basically that while, yes, in 1964 Racism migh…

During an appearance on WBAL radio last week, Steele was asked to address a concern from Indiana Committeeman Jim Bopp, Jr., who had claimed that the RNC chairman played the Race Card in framing his own Reelection fight as a test that will “…

Michael Steele's short temper has turned into a political weapon that's being used against him, as one of his key challengers in the race for the Republican National Committee chairmanship demands Steele apologize for calling a fellow committee …

Washington (CNN) - One of Michael Steele's challengers in the Republican National Committee Chairman's race is questioning Steele's temperament and demanding that the chairman apologize after he called a Veteran RNC member "an idiot" during a rece…