[mkjessup]

It seems like you are saying that “we have to nominate a black candidate once we have a black candidate, otherwise we will be labeled as racists”.
Are you really saying that?

I'm saying that we ALL have to recognize that if for some reason Herman Cain is NOT the nominee, nor on the ticket as VP candidate, that the 'Rats will use that like a sledgehammer. They will do a 180 degree turn and the Herman Cain who today is an 'Uncle Tom', a 'Step n' Fetchit', etc., will be immediately transformed into the second coming of Martin Luther King, just you wait and see.

[samtheman]

So what that MEANS is, in effect, that now that ONE of our candidates is black, then we MUST choose him because if we don’t then the “rats will use that like a sledgehammer”.

So once we have ANY black candidate then we have NO OTHER CANDIDATES, by your reasoning.

That is so far beyond simple Affirmative Action that I think you’re on the verge of a brand new principle: Affirmative PreDestination.

No thanks.

I think I’ll stick with picking candidates the old fashioned way: evaluating each one as an individual.

But have at it. You might actually get famous for being the first one to come up with this if it catches on.

It is a novel idea. Just don’t sign me up.