RNC candidate Chip Saltsman's Christmas greeting to committee members includes a music CD with lyrics from a song called "Barack the Magic Negro," first played on Rush Limbaugh's popular radio show. Saltsman, a personal friend of conservative satirist Paul Shanklin, sent a 41-track CD along with a note to national committee members.... "I look forward to working together in the New Year," Saltsman wrote. "Please enjoy the enclosed CD by my friend Paul Shanklin of the Rush Limbaugh Show.".... The CD, called "We Hate the USA," lampoons liberals with such songs as "John Edwards' Poverty Tour," "Wright place, wrong pastor," "Love Client #9," "Ivory and Ebony" and "The Star Spanglish banner.".... Several of the track titles, including "Barack the Magic Negro," are written in bold font.
There are, of course, numerous reasons why Republicans have been relegated to the status of "loyal opposition". It would take too long to truly and accurately discuss all of the reasons for the GOP's long-awaited and welcome demise. The race-baiting ignorance of Chip Saltsman, though, is certainly a good place to start.
The fact that Saltsman wants to lead the party on it's way back from creeping irrelevance should be indication enough that the GOP is institutionally clueless. Though often claiming to be the "Big Tent Party", the GOP tent generally shelters only the White, the wealthy, and the easily and perpetually propagandized and brain-dead.
Then again, I'm not saddened (nor surprised) by Saltsman's actions. His actions, and the relative lack of condemnation coming from the Right, can and should serve as an indication of what the Republican Party is really all about...and it's not inclusion, in case you were wondering. These fools deserve to be condemned to a long, undefined period of wandering in the wilderness, because they still don't understand that they ARE the problem.
