Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas

Both prove the point that if you are a memeber of a religious, ethnic, cultural, or racial minority and a member of the GOP you are either a fool or a corrupt cynic, trading on your group identity to advance your career.  Does anyone really think anyone involved in appointing Thomas or voting for Steele really thought either was competant or intelligent, nah, just a cynical attempt to put a token out there to try to show the Republican party does not have a white fundementalist base which steers that bus.  I am talking about the Republican leadship here, there are sincere well meaning Republicans out there, somewhere. The powers that run the party on the national and local levels have either sold out or sincerley believe in creationism, a free market which will leave us all at the mercy of predatory corporations, and that the old days where women and minorities knew their places and degenerates ( read gays ) were put in jail were the best days this country has had.  That is the Repoublican base, the "pure core" and watching the buffoonery of Steele and the submissive taging along of Thomas behind Scalia, it just proves my point.  Idiots or cynics.