[jern]

I said something like that a couple months ago, and was slammed. People don't like you taking about about Vernon. remember, he is the black Jesse Helms. He has told us 50 times.

[FirstPrinciple]

The Republican Party will never accept a conservative black man. Too much burden. You have to be somewhat wishy-washy and liberal, like Colin Powell and the Congressman from OK who just retired (I cannot recall his name), and will have to take cues from other wishy-washy big wigs in the party. Standards are different for whites for whom the party will tolerate independent conservatism, like Tancredo and Ron Paul.