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To balance the ticket along racial lines? So that he can win the black vote? I think it's noble to reach out to blacks and try to help them shake loose the chains the democrats have shackled them with but it's a pipedream to beleive they'll vote republican in this election. I mean, they are so mainstream party-line democrat that they are supporting the wife of a white guy they called black over an actual black man because she's the party insider. JC Watts isnt going the get them to pull the lever for Romney.

Thoughtful observations. The Republican party is wasting its time "courting the black vote". The LAST thing we need is "token blacks" like Steele running as VP, because the REAL effect this cause is to drive away _white_ Republican voters who are naturally predisposed not to "vote black". Call that racist if you wish, but I call it "reality".

Prediction: In the 2008 general election, the Republicans will garner about 8% of the black vote, if they get that much. Put a black in as VP, and they might get 10%. But little or nothing more.

If Hillary picks Obama to run as her VP candidate (and that is likely if he continues to be a major threat to her campaign), we might see fully 95-96% of blacks vote dim.

If Obama is the candidate - forget it.

Why do Republicans - particularly conservative Republicans, like those here on FR - still cling to the Pollyannish notion that blacks will "come to our side", if we woo them for votes? Those blacks who are smart enough to make the individual decisions to live and vote as conservatives don't need to be pandered towards. The rest don't matter.

The same goes for "the Hispanic vote". We ain't gonna get much of it. Why do we keep deluding ourselves that we might?

- John