Republicans: Imagine the response if we tried to push a black candidate out

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on the Meek/Clinton conversation:

"If we have learned anything this election cycle, it’s that voters demand the right to choose candidates for themselves, not by a political establishment seeking to make those decisions from on high. President Clinton’s actions to have Kendrick Meek withdraw from the campaign sends a chilling signal to all voters, but especially African Americans. One can only imagine the response if Republican leadership tried to force out of the race – in the 11th hour – a qualified black candidate like Kendrick Meek."

Comments

[Prognosticator]

He is already on the ballot. All they can do is try and sway the remaining people, who will probably be so appalled that a qualified candidate they intended to vote for was removed, that they won't even bother to go to the polls. And what did they offer him? Upon whose authority? Impeachable offense?

[Clwons to the left;Jokers to the right]

Funny the Republicans have been trying to push Steel, a black man, out of his position for the last year.

Give em hell Charlie!

[trueservice]

when did Rubio ever care for blacks. As speaker he had no blacks in his administration, he showed more overt racism then any speaker before him

[Robert Jenkins]

I believe it is the weakness of Meeks candiacy, that is the problem. See Crist is still a Republican at heart. I think once Sink is Governor, and if Rubio's IRS investigation goes bad; Sink will appoint former Republican Governor Crist to fulfill the balance of Rubio's term.