Chip Saltsman Withdraws after Drawing Fire for Incendiary Song

Posted 01/30/09 at 07:48pm

Yesterday we blogged about Chip Saltsman, then in the running for RNC Chairman, and his crude sense of humor. Well, it turns out we there were a great number us who found his holiday CD, including the songs "Barack the Magic Negro" and "Star Spanglish Banner," highly offensive - not to mention politically stupid. Huffington Post writer, Sam Stein reports:

UPDATE: Chip Saltsman, a former chief aide to GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has withdrawn from the race to be chairman of the Republican National Committee just a day before the vote takes place.

Saltsman's bid was dealt a major blow several weeks ago when he was found to have distributed copies of a CD with the racially-inflammatory song "Barack the Magic Negro."

Today, immigration groups hammered on Saltsman again, drawing attention to the fact that the CD also includes a song titled "The Star Spanglish Banner."

Stein continues by explaining how this sort of "ill-conceived" (that's one way of saying it) prank is indicative of a larger GOP dillemma:

Saltsman has contended that the whole thing was meant as a good-humored, albeit ill-conceived, joke. But it hits at the core of what observers inside and out of the GOP see as a major party problem: their incredible failure to win Hispanic votes in the 2008 election.

Hispanics, of course, are the fastest growing constituency in the United States and a cold shoulder to them -- whether in the form of a musical parody or through immigration reform policy -- is not something the Republican Party can afford at this or any juncture.

As he argues, and as we've been saying for some time, the future of the party depends on not completely alienating Latino and minority voters.

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