GOP - Land of the Palefaces

The GOP will look pretty pale again this fall:

Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.

At a time when Democrats are poised to knock down a historic racial barrier with their presidential nominee, the GOP is fielding only a handful of minority candidates for Congress or statehouses — none of whom seem to have a prayer of victory.

At the start of the Bush years, the Republican National Committee — in tandem with the White House — vowed to usher in a new era of GOP minority outreach. As George W. Bush winds down his presidency, Republicans are now on the verge of going six — and probably more — years without an African-American governor, senator or House member.

That’s the longest such streak since the 1980s.

Frankly, it doesn't matter to me what color a person is as long as they're qualified to do the job, but in this day of political correctness, perception is reality and the perception is that there must something wrong with the GOP if the officeholders are overwhelmingly white.

As long as minorities overwhelmingly benefit from Democrat largesse, set-asides, welfare and affirmative action, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that minorities are not interested in becoming Republicans.