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Saltsman Faux Pas Triggers Party Reflection On Race

By Kleinheider Posted on December 29, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Sam Stein reports:

The forums come at a time when the GOP is undergoing an intense bout of political soul-searching, made even more urgent by revelations that a leading RNC chair candidate distributed a racially insensitive CD as a Holiday gift.

Well aware that the party must expand and diversify, Republican officials are scheduled to use the upcoming events to discuss race and the inclusiveness of the GOP.

“[Race] is going to be a large piece of it,” said Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and a moderator of one of the debates. “There will be the immigration and Hispanic issues. There will be the immigration issue with respect to Asians and Pakistanis and Muslims. There will even be [discussion of] Mormon issues. All of those things will be very important.”

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  1. Joe P. writes
    December 29th, 2008 6:28 pm

    soul searching? not by the GOP nor their bastions of talk radio. it’s always witch hunt season. Grover just ID’d the current slate of enemies: “There will be the immigration and Hispanic issues. There will be the immigration issue with respect to Asians and Pakistanis and Muslims. There will even be [discussion of] Mormon issues. All of those things will be very important.”

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