Since Michael Steele, the Professional Black just hired on as Republican National Committee Hand/Chairman has not disclosed any income tax issues (has he been asked?) he has not attracted much MSM attention this week.

VDARE.com, however, has not forgotten him.

The extent of the disaster of Steele’s appointment (presuming Republicans actually want to win, of course) can be gauged by looking at the members of his “Transition Team”. Of the ten members, only one, RNCman Henry Barbour of Mississippi, comes from a state the Republicans actually carried in the last several election cycles. The young and very silent (try googling on him!) nephew of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Henry brings with him the sweet aroma of nepotism, entitlement…or worse. His primary discernable achievement appears to have been named a significant “bundler” for John McCain.

Ask Henry Barbour to say something.

Incidentally, the RNC has done a wonderful job of hiding the identity of its National Committee Figureheads since the wars of ’06/7. Then they were compactly listed, as often as not with email addresses. Not now!

Could they be sending us a message?

Steele’s Transition Team leader is someone called Reince Priebus, Wisconsin GOP Chairman, who was apparently in at the beginning. Wisconsin has not voted Republican since 1984 – before Priebus could participate:

… Priebus said. “Our core fundamental principles remain strong and mirror those of the majority of Americans. We must improve our outreach efforts in order to grow as a Party.

There is the point of view that one decides what is good for the country and then tries to persuade others. Or perhaps politics is just a team sport?

The GOP’s problem is that this is a team of losers.

Apparently Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee has become another of those positions, like being head of an Ivy League school or Governor of the Federal Reserve, to which white men of Christian heritage Need Not Apply.

The clique which controls the RNC has just ordained failed Maryland Senate candidate and professional Black Michael Steele: Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman By Liz Sidoti Associated Press January 31 2009-01-31

Steele was preceded by professional Hispanic Senator Mel Martinez (R-Cuba) who has apparently found masquerading as a Republican Senator - now the brilliant leadership supplied by his cronies has cost the GOP the House, Senate, and White House - too much like work. (Martinez dropped out of the RNC position in late 2007 and his assistant Mike Duncan served as stop-gap.) Martinez succeeded hereditary open borders fanatic Ken Mehlman.

There is an irony here. Steele was already being prepared for Coronation in 2006 when the Rove/Mehlman crowd realized that somebody has put some sensible immigration remarks on Steele’s Senate Campaign website. So he was dumped.

Some VDARE.com readers might hope that this means Steele will actually alter the RNC Establishment’s line on immigration. That is very dubious. He has spent the last two years licking boots in preparation for this role. As Marcus Epstein noted in his VDARE.com report on the event, Steele opposed Ward Connerly’s raising of Affirmative action at National Review’s so-called Conservative Summit in 2007

only Connerly, who has heroically led two successful state wide ballot initiatives against affirmative action, made opposing the policy a top priority. Michael Steele said affirmative action was a side issue—we needed to revitalize the black culture and it will go away.

And after the Paul/Guliani South Carolina confrontation, Pat Buchanan reported

…Michael Steele, GOP spokesman, was saying that Paul should probably be cut out of future
debates…

adding

By all means, throw out of the debate the only man who was right from the beginning on Iraq.

The childishly credulous AP report parrots Steele’s boasting

The choice marked no less than “the dawn of a new party,” declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele

But notes

Steele, an attorney…was considered the most moderate of the five candidates running.

The truth is, Steele’s selection means no change. The RNC remains controlled by a faction which under the guise of “outreach” is determined to block any policy which could mobilize the GOP’s key constituency: White men of Christian heritage – and the women who love them. Their job is to contribute, vote – and shut up. The new Slave class!

In the post-Reconstruction South, there was the phenomenon of “Post Office Republicans”. These people maintained the local party machinery, did nothing, and every few years got to gobble federal patronage when the ebb and flow of national politics put the Republicans in the White House.

When politically serious white men started migrating into the Republican Party as the Democrat’s anti white bias became intolerable, their first task was to eliminate this group of parasites. It was quite difficult.

Now it needs to be done at the national level.

I was shocked and saddened to hear the news that English First executive director Jim Boulet died of cancer last week.

For the last decade, Jim headed English First. That position allowed Jim to work both with patriotic immigration reformers along with “Assimilationist” amnesty supporters. Unlike some English advocates, Jim was a firm supporter of immigration control, and was able to use his organization to push the issue whenever possible. The last few amnesty bills, for example had provisions that undermined Official English, so English First opposed them on those grounds. Boulet also led fights against the EEOC, Puerto Rican Statehood, and Hispandering.

I can think of more than a couple of occasions where I went to an utterly asinine conservative conference where Jim served both as the photographer as well as one of the few people I with whom I could have a sane conversation.

Jim was always willing to lend a helping hand. When I brought candidates to D.C. to meet with the movement, he would eagerly set up meetings with key leaders who wouldn’t give me the time of day.

Two years ago, I spoke at an English First press conference against Mel Martinez as the Chairman of the RNC. The American Cause is organizing a similar press conference to coincide with the upcoming RNC election, and I called Jim on his cell phone two weeks ago asking for advice. After about 10 seconds the call broke up. I left a few messages over the next week, and wondered why he hadn’t called back. I found the tragic explanation this morning when I saw Kathryn Jean Lopez make a note about his service at National Review Online.

May he rest in peace.

Marcus Epstein mentioned that Bay Buchanan was going to have an Op-Ed in the NYT about Pa’t 1992 speech. Here it is:

Pat went on to deliver his now famous “culture war” speech. It is often blamed for Mr. Bush’s defeat, and Pat is accused of hijacking the convention. But the final version was sent to the White House for approval, and it received high praise from the news media and the Bush family. Oh, one other detail: A poll that concluded the night after Pat spoke gave President Bush a 10-point bump in the number of voters who strongly supported him.[And the Party Blinked ,By Bay Buchanan, New York Times, September 4, 2008]

The McCain Campaign’s moronic Affirmative Actioning in selecting Alaska’s first-term Governor Sarah Palin for their VP candidate is of course foolish. Republicans can only win by ensuring a high turn out by their key constituency, white men of Christian heritage. Yet another sign that they are to be discriminated against by a McCain Administration may well keep a critical number at home on Election Day.

Congratulations to our old friend and sometime contributor Kevin Michael Grace, for the best comment so far on this, part of a brilliant satirical essay on his blog The Ambler:

Dan Quayle, however, struck a discordant note. Reached at his home in Paradise Valley, AZ, the former Vice President declared, “You remember the s–t I went through when Bush picked me in ‘88? I was ‘too young’ and ‘too inexperienced.’ Well, compared to this broad, I was Daniel F—–g Webster.” Quayle refused further comment, mumbling enigmatically, “It’s Miller time.”

(Hat Tip, Steve Sailer)

Others in the Immigration Control movement besides ourselves are wondering about Sarah Palin’s stance on immigration. The Diggers Realm blog has been hard at work, coming up with a photograph of Palin as Miss Wasilla in 1984 and adding some incisive comment:

she’s unknown and unexpected and after looking around, severely inexperienced to run this country should John McCain die in office.
Once again, as with illegal immigration, John McCain is playing Russian Roulette with this country.
Nobody in this election has been thinking about America. This choice proves that McCain cares more about being elected than the future of our country.

(McCain Picks Beauty Pageant Journalist Sarah Palin As Running Mate)

Digger’s Realm does point out one positive:

On the positive side of it, she does have more experience actually running something than Obama, who so far in his career has only pushed a button voting yeah or nay on something.

Unfortunately, as VDARE.com has noted, Alaska is far from insulated from the impact of mass immigration. The crucial Fish Canning business has been substantially de-Americanized and those relying on the work impoverished. Palin must know this–especially as her husband works as a Bristol Bay salmon fisherman in season. Her silence on the issue is ominous: business owners in this tiny community have probably got to her.

And, of course as Digger’s Realm says

All I can assume is that she is in lockstep with McCain’s amnesty since amnesty for illegal aliens is an issue he has such a passion for that he has gotten angry at anyone who questions him on it - including voters

Subsequently, Digger’s Realm has posted a Bleg:

There is absolutely no stance or action on illegal immigration recorded on Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin anywhere in statements or press releases. We have absolutely no idea where she stands on the border fence, birthright citizenship, workplace enforcement, sanctuary cities and in general, amnesty. This is disturbing for a running mate that could potentially end up as the commander in chief should McCain die in office. I have looked far and wide for information and come up blank…

If anyone can find information on Sarah Palin’s stance on illegal immigration please send it on by posting a comment below or through the contact link at the top and bottom of this site. Thank you

Sarah Palin On Illegal Immigration - Who Knows?

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A happy thought: perhaps by picking Palin, from a state with a narrow undiversified industrial base, where a key cash employer has pigged out on imported labor, McCain may have inadvertently brought his hated issue back on stage.

VDARE.com hopes we all hear more about the Fish Cannery business in Alaska in the coming months.

So here we are with the Affirmative Action Presidential election. Both tickets feature someone in their 40s, each in their first terms of office in positions of any national significance. Neither would be where they are except for Affirmative Action.

No doubt the reflexive me-too McCainites are feeling smart. If they actually were smart, they would be aware that their core constituency – white men of Christian heritage – resents Affirmative Action. And yes, they do have an alternative: not voting.

But for the apparently small minority of us who think politics should be about policy rather than posturing, the elevation of Alaska’s Governor Palin provides an opportunity to raise an important question.

As Ryan Kennedy pointed out here last May (The Salmon Symptom: Hillary And The Democratic Party Abandon American Workers May 07 2008) Alaska has long provided seasonal work involving long hours and very tough conditions: the fish cannery industry’s slime- line

The slime-line is some of the most unpleasant work you could imagine. Basically, the job is to rip the guts out of a salmon as fast as you can in order to do another, and another, and another for 12+ hours, everyday, 7 days a week, all summer

Forty years ago, the pay in this activity was so high – almost $20 an hour in today’s money – that it attracted Wellesley student Hillary Clinton.

Now the Cannery Industry has forced down real wages more than 60% of that by importing immigrants, many probably illegal. As Rob Sanchez reported here, it goes to almost comic lengths to avoid recruiting Americans.

So now we have an Immigration question for VP nominee Palin: does she approve of the elimination of Americans in this part of one of Alaska’s crucial industries, by the wholesale import of low wage immigrants?

The nicely complements our question for McCain: does he approve his maximum contributor Mrs. Billy Howard’s displacement of Mississippi workers in her plants by immigrants, many apparently illegal?

Any patriotic MSM Press Conference attendees out there?

Quite possibly the Republican National Committee thinks only immigrants and their cheerleaders can speak Spanish. According to Boston.com, they intend to run a Spanish radio ad this week which I estimate is capable of turning off 20 GOP voters for every Hispanic it attracts:

The Republican National Committee unveiled a Spanish-language radio ad today that it plans to run during next week’s Democratic convention that promotes John McCain’s support for comprehensive immigration reform, while deriding Barack Obama as all talk and no action.

…”How do you know someone is a friend? You know because they stand up and defend you when it is hard. When Hispanics needed a friend in Congress during the immigration debate, who stood up? Who spoke out? John McCain,” the announcer says, according to a translation by CNN.

“…only McCain demonstrated a real commitment to reforming immigration in a way that honored our laws as well as our immigrants and traditions,” the announcer continues….Obama supported measures designed to insert a deadly ‘poison pill’ to kill the immigration legislation. If Obama didn’t even have the courage to stand up for immigrants, how can he claim to have the strength to change the way Washington works?”

GOP courts Latinos on immigration Posted by Foon Rhee August 22 2008

If taken seriously – and why not? -this means we will be back in the trenches next year.

This slimy piece of treasonable sycophancy is more or less what can be expected from the RNC, which as VDARE.com has noted before, is a comtemptible bunch of unprincipled hacks and too much influenced by Hispanics.

However the reader responses are valuable. It appears there are a few patriots in the Boston area:

1. What has happened to the Reagan Republicans…remember them…those who represented decency and respect for the human race, family values, and morals. Who are these new Republicans? Why have loyal Republicans allow an ugly and unfamiliar decay and decadence an opportunity to destroy the once pride and sturdy foundation the Republican Party!

Posted by Dee August 22, 08 03:42 PM

3. McCain really threw his conservative followers under the bus on this one…..If he is friends with illegal aliens then he must be an evangelical conservative’s adversary. Make up your mind, Mr. McCain.

Posted by jm August 22, 08 03:45 PM

4. That’s it. The last straw. Anybody But McCain. Email this news item to all your friends so they can know what McCain has in store for them.
A New America filled with New American that all us Old Americans can take care of for generations to come with free medical care, free college education, free tutoring, and worst of all free lessons from our betters for all eternity on how evil and hateful we are and how we are not dying out fast enough and being replaced with better people from anywhere else but here.

Posted by Ted Strickland August 22, 08 05:04 PM

And more important in terms of illumination the destructive stupidity of the RNC/McCain approach, an honest Hispanic has surfaced:

7. I am hispanic and and no matter how many ads they have in spanish or whatever this former republican will never vote republican again. And to all of you demagogues and xenophobes….karma baby, karma. All of your hate and narrowminded thinking will never reward you, it will bite you back in the end. You and all of your right wing rhetoric……..defeated in the Civil war…..defeated during the Civil Rights Era…..defeated in court (antiimmigrant ordinances found unconstitutional). Whatever you try to do to stifle hispanics and other immigrants…you wil fail. I’ve ran into a lot of rednecks who think of us as dumb mexicans but you know what…keep thinking that(your doing me a favor)….it will ensure us victory in the end.
Posted by David Hernandez August 22, 08 05:10 PM

Abraham Lincoln, who orchestrated and won the Civil War to his eternal shame, was of course the first Republican President. But in clearly stating that he sees the immigration issue as a matter of racial conquest, our Hispanic friend (and implausible Republican) is doing his (no doubt forcibly) adopted country a favor. Unless the native-born wake up to the fact this view is widely held Hernandez has it right

it will ensure us victory in the end.

Thanks, RNC

Many Republicans are up in arms over Howard Dean’s slip -

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican Party.”

According to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan:

Howard Dean’s comments on race and gender today are disappointing and wrong. His efforts to divide Americans are an insult to all our nations citizens and have absolutely no place in the national dialogue.

Duncan would be well advised to listen to what Dean’s “white party” comments were prefaced by:

The fact is that the Democratic party is made up of lots of different people, and we’re all minorities in our party. That’s the way it’s been for a long, long time. We’re the party of opportunity. So the demographic trends favor the Democrats.

Were it not for massive Third World immigration, being the “White Party” would mean being “The Winning Party”. Dean simply recognizes that the more non-white the country becomes, the worse the “White Party” does.

The GOP’s obliviousness to this reality hurts them in two ways. They shy away from any sort of issue such as immigration and affirmative action that would galvanize the white vote for fear that they would “divide America”. At the same time, rather than try to reverse the “demographic trends” that will create more and more Democrats, they hold on to the fantasy that they can somehow pander their way into getting Hispanics to vote Republican.

When I saw the headline “Voter Fraud In Alabama?” on the Volokh Conspiracy, I wondered if they in fact had enough Hispanics and other illegal immigrants in Alabama to commit voter fraud.

In fact, it’s African-Americans who are alleged to have done so:

“As long as the voter requests my help, I come in and assist them,” Mr. Turner said.

Blacks hold a majority on the five-member Perry County Commission. And an influential political organization, the Perry County Civic League, founded during the civil rights movement by one of the movement’s leaders, Albert Turner Sr., plays a large role in filling other offices.

The Democracy Defense League, a biracial citizens group that has been critical of voting abuses in the area for the last three years, submitted affidavits to Mr. King and federal officials saying that some people voted six times in the same election.

The accusations have roiled this old plantation country of rich soil, impoverished people and unremitting distrust between black majorities and white minorities, where several trials and indictments in vote fraud cases have already occurred over the years — in 1985, 1997 and 2007 — some of which resulted in convictions of county and city officials.

The accusations have larger national implications at a moment when many Republican officials around the country have cited rampant voter fraud as a justification for stricter identification requirements at the polls, a move that Democrats have said is really designed to dampen the turnout among Democratic voters. Specific examples of fraud, though, are quite unusual.

Some Democrats here say the inquiries are motivated by racism and partisanship.

“The Republican Party has an unscripted mandate to target Democratic counties, and African-Americans particularly,” said Albert Turner Jr., a county commissioner here.

Mr. Turner’s father, a local civil rights hero, was tried and acquitted on vote fraud charges 23 years ago. The younger Mr. Turner was photographed talking to voters in a polling place in the National Guard Armory throughout the day on June 3, when he was a candidate for re-election.

Although state law prohibits candidates from being within 30 feet of a polling place, Mr. Turner said another law allowed voters to choose someone to assist them in voting. He said he had helped as many as 60 people on primary day, when he was easily re-elected for a second term.

Officials Investigate 3 Alabama Counties in Voter Fraud Accusations,  By Adam Nossiter, New York Times, July 10, 2008

“Assisting someone in voting” usually means going into the voting booth with someone who says they’re illiterate or handicapped, and “helping” them vote. In old style machine politics, it was a way of making sure that your people voted the right way.D. W. Brogan wrote in Politics in America (1955) that

“One last resort of the machine is to take advantage of the law that permits an illiterate or physically incapacitated voter to be ‘assisted’ in casting his vote. This is an effective method of controlling voters, especially in years like 1928 and 1932 in Philadelphia, when it was suspected that even the faithful could not be trusted alone behind the green curtain. To profess to be able to vote unaided was, in itself, ground for suspicion of intended treason and was effectually frowned on. As the number of foreign-born and of illiterates steadily drops, this device, though not impracticable, becomes more and more implausible . It’s obvious that if the candidate is the person who assists you, that he knows how you voted.”

Of course, when he wrote of the number of foreign-born and illiterates dropping, that was before the 1965 immigration act.

As for the candidate himself giving voter assistance, a civil rights magazine wrote, in regard to the 1985 investigations mentioned in the New York Times, that

“Under Alabama law, it is illegal (indeed, it is so written on the ballot) for candidates to witness absentee ballots or give assistance to voters.”[Crackdown in the Black Belt: On to Greene County By Randall Williams, Southern Changes. Volume 7, Number 3-4, 1985]

They were accusing a Republican of having assisted voters, which is why they made point of it, but the law is the law.

With my attention paid at the pathetic pandering at the RNC, I somehow missed John McCain’s Cinco de Mayo celebration. In addition to the typical banalities about the contributions of Mexican Americans and great heroism of Mexican forces at the Battle of Puebla, he went a step further, stating there is a “special relationship” between Mexico and America. He also launched a Spanish language website, and announced that he’d speak before the National Council of La Raza (the Race.)

McCain told reporters, “everything about our Hispanic voters is tailor-made to the Republican message…I know their patriotism, I know the respect for the family, the advocacy for pro-life, I know the small business aspect of our Hispanic voters.”

A quick reality check:

Patriotism: Only 34% of Hispanics eligible for US citizenship choose to take the necessary steps to take it—less than any other immigrant group. Of that group, only a third of Hispanics who are American citizens consider themselves Americans first.

Respect for the Family: Half of Hispanic births in the US are out of wedlock.

Pro Life: Hispanics are 2.7 times more likely to have an abortion than whites.

Small Business: Hispanics make up 15% of the population and only 6.6 percent of all businesses.