RNC must stand on principle — “We elected the most qualified person to be RNC chair.”
There is no and can be no other argument.
Next question.
You asked “Precisely what does the color of a person’s skin have to do with the RNC chair?”
I answered, precisely, that the position is partly a marketing position and that the GOP has to cultivate an image as a party that appeals to more than easily befuddled white men who get by through patronage and nepotism.
Now that image isn’t true, but it is an image nonetheless.
So that’s ‘precisely’ why
If you don’t like the answer, don’t pretend that the answer doesn’t have some legitimacy and that the answer doesn’t matter, because it does. You and I may not like it, but it does matter.
Like I wrote, cultivating a fantasy world where important things are unimportant is unwise.