It's My Party, But I Don't Feel Part of It - washingtonpost.com

It's My Party, But I Don't Feel Part of It - washingtonpost.com

I support Michael Steele for RNC Chairman. He was screwed over for the post right after the 2006 elections by an elitist GOP. I also agree with most of the comments made here by the author of this column. The GOP has made a game of screwing over up and coming blacks---look at what Dennis Hastert did to J.C. Watts. The country club Republican is simply not going to bend down from on high and work with minorities. That's one of the reasons we have so few. And that'w why we need candidates who come from the middle class and not running as the Bushes did and as Romney does, as saviors rather than as citizens. The do it to obtain another title. I'm a big sports fan---I have season tickets for UNLV football and UNLV basketball (both mens and womans). The friends I attend these games with are black. These gentlemen are lower middle class but are living out the American dream. They love America, they have wives and children, they attend church each Sunday. Why shouldn't the party try to recruit men and women such as my friends. I'll tell you why----the party is no longer the party of Reagan, and it is battling not to become the party of Palin or Jindal or Pawlenty. The party would rather lose than stoop to recruiting the unwashed masses. I shouldn't need a secret pass word to attend a Republican function--that's damn near how bad it is now. Jim