Readers might recall how we were eagerly looking forward to hearing Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speak last Tuesday at the Vinoy in St. Pete on the reports about some free wheeling spending habits by some RNC members and himself.
The Chairman was in the Bay area with the Site Selection Task Force that is responsible for selecting the city that will host the 2012 Republican National Convention, in which Tampa is bidding against Pheonix and Salt Lake City.
But Steele was a no-show. But he did appear this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, where he incisively told George Stephanopoulos that just like President Obama, being black means he’s got a “slimmer margin of error” because their race.
“The honest answer is, ‘yes,'” he said. Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. A lot of folks do. It’s a different role for me to play and others to play and that’s just the reality of it. But you take that as part of the nature of it.”
“My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented, it’s not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That’s rubbed some feathers the wrong way,” Steele told “GMA’s”George Stephanopoulos.
But the White House, not wanting to help out the opposition, doesn’t share in being sympatico with the race card.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2010.
