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.
And it takes a person of color or a female to “sell” the GOP?
My point is that it is high time that the tribal and class warfare the Democrats have managed to force upon the USA during my adult lifetime be ended.
The RNC is a fund raising and “elect Republicans” operation, not a PR operation like Michael Steele thought it was.
If the RNC chair can raise a lot of money, spend it well and recruit good candidates and elect them, then he/she will have done their job.
And, when questioned about their color or their gender, RNC officials should say “it is immaterial to the job at hand. The Race card and the Gender card have no place in Republican or American politics.”
Somebody has got to start the ball rolling, and the new GOP Chairman should be the man to do it!
Obviously, I don’t consider race and gender important at all — what matters is character.