Principle Trumps Race

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Lynn Swann, Michael Steele, Condi Rice and Ken Blackwell face the same handicap every morning when they look in the mirror.

They're Republicans, but they're not supposed to be. Who made that rule? Democrats?

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To an extent, Democrats have been blindsided by this growth of black Republicans running for high-profile offices. Many of them assert that Republicans are encouraging this new crop of candidates to run on "being black."

But how else can they run? They're black. Wouldn't be quite the problem, though, if they were running as Democrats loudly touting their "blackness."

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Interestingly, the cruelest critics of black candidates who take inspiration from Ronald Reagan are fellow blacks -- black Democrats. Think Harry Belafonte.

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