I find it hilarious how right-wingers use such tortured and twisted logic to justify their racism and sexism relative to their political candidates. They always claim that it’s not that they don’t want a woman or black as president yet they can’t get them to run. I wonder why? Right-wingers claim Condi Rice and Colin Powell are more qualified than many dem candidates so what’s the problem? Could it be they know a black man or woman would have no chance to get the nomination much less win the general election in their biased party? After all the only way they can get blacks to serve in the Republican party is to “appoint” them because they can’t get elected. If political beliefs were the standard then Clarence Thomas would run for president. He is more right-wing than “w” but he would have no chance in the Republican party of today. Alan Keyes is a good example of the futility of a black conservative in the repu party. The only thing he can win is a right-wing talk show. I can only remember one conservative black (rich Oklahoma football hero, J.C. Watts) that was “elected” in the repu party and he resigned in frustration. Is that a coincidence? I wonder why? Could it be because the repu party is racist or because they don’t represent the interests of average people and minorities? I wonder. If right-wingers really represented minorities they would change their political positions to reflect it but that is not going to happen in the WASP party of big money and materialism that has a history of being anti-civil rights and runs campaigns by demonizing blacks. Reagan started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. That is the town where the first black civil-rights worker was hung in the sixties. That sent a message to all right-wing racists that he was one of them. The symbolism of that was very clear and the South has gone repu ever since. Bush used Willie Horton to scare whitey in 88 and then paid blacks to stand on the stage and be on camera during political rally’s to give the impression they represent minorities. Every election year most all repu candidates start off by going to Bob Jones University in South Carolina to grovel at the feet of white religious and racist fundamentalists to show their prejudiced leanings. I wonder why a black man or liberal woman would not want to run as a republican presidential candidate. After all one would think the sky’s the limit in the GOP for ambitious minorities. I wonder. When Republican presidential candidates get less than 10% of the black vote in elections one would think they might say to themsleves, "hey, maybe we need to change a little to accomodate the political views of minorities." Instead they always come back with, "we don't need blacks anyway; they'll come around to our viewpoint eventually." Who needs minorities when you have a super-majority of southern bigots. That's the view that has worked for right-wingers in the past and it will probably continue to work for them in the future. I wonder why?