We dont need any candidate based on skin color.
We could have used Walter Williams because he was a good candidate, period.
I dont vote for anyone because of externals chracteristics.
There is always a time to introduce spokespeople because they are credible to a segment of the audience.
The ladies Diamond and Silk are serving in this capacity for Donald Trump right now.
There can be an admirable balance. Choose people of a certain kind to be credible spokespeople, and yet not idols or tokens.
It is part of Republican philosophy that we should look at everyone with colorblind eyes, but the electorate is not a corps of philosophers.
Much of the support for Barack Obama was from white liberals desperate for an opportunity to convince themselves that they aren't racist by voting for the "black" candidate.
Make whatever ideological objections to this methodology that you want, but had we followed it, it would have landed us a landslide victory, and it would have given us an opportunity to effectively advance conservative principles at very little cost.
Alas, the liberals figured this out before our side could, and they reaped the reward from doing it first.
When a characteristic of your candidate is that he can win handily, that becomes a very good argument for picking him.