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Turns out indefensibly offensive jokes might actually be the ticket to a leadership post at the RNC:
The controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it.
Four days after news broke that the former Tennessee GOP chairman had sent a CD including a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro" to the RNC members he is courting, some of those officials are rallying around the embattled Saltsman, with a few questioning whether the national media and his opponents are piling on.
"When I heard about the story, I had to figure out what was going on for myself," said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the Maine Republican Party. "When I found out what this was about I had to ask, 'Boy, what's the big deal here?' because there wasn't any."
Makes me wonder if the politically violent "joke" in the NHGOP letter was premature. Might've come in handy right about now for an RNC run.
But in all seriousness: if the piece at the link above (plus this extra bit here) has any relationship to how things really stand in the rudderless nat'l party, I strongly suspect the GOP will need at least one more cycle of humiliating defeat before they figure out what to do to turn it around. Which is fine by me.
And how about that quote from the Maine GOP chair? That just tells me that Collins' win is even more impressive, because she must not have been able to rely on him for strategery.
