To GOP Chair Michael Steel - Rush is not just "an Entertainer"

People of color have not been receptive of the 20th Century rhetoric of the Republican Party. Rush's tone and strategy tend to alienate the very people the party needs to not only gain power but retain power. Palin was viewed as an affirmative action/identity politics pick. If in fact we recognize the need to diversify, using the same logic as John McCain and most of the conservative pundits (including Rush, Ann Coulter, Hannity, Ingraham etc... who supported his diversity pick) lets get diverse people who can help us win. As long as republican nominees are almost exclusively white for statewide and national elections the party is wasting its time seeking to win minority votes. If we are going to win break the Democratic Party’s stranglehold on the minority vote, the party has to show real and demonstrable change. Remember talk is cheap. When minorities see significant change in the fabric of republican politics then the Democratic Party will be crippled. Is affirmative action, which is pretty much a moot point) more important than national defense, the economy, abortion, traditional marriage etc...?