
When Katon Dawson, the chairman of South Carolina's GOP, decided to run for national chair of the RNC
he quit his whites-only country club. Noting that his membership would be a distraction for Republicans trying to win elections, Dawson also called for an end of the discriminatory restriction included in the club's deed (which is actually unconstitutional and unenforceable).
One
GOP critic says that if Dawson wins the post, it further proves that the GOP has been reduced to "a Southern regional rump party that's held hostage by intolerant crackpots."

Not everyone in the Bush Administration will be out on their behinds on Jan. 20. Barack Obama is
considering keeping on Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

GOP Heads Out on Caribbean Cruise to Re-Plot The Republican elite could be found this week on a Caribbean cruise after being stung in the Nov. 4 elections. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson joined policy analysts and 700 subscribers who want to revive the Republican Party on the cruise hosted by the
National Review, a conservative magazine. Publisher Jack Fowler told the AP during a port of call on Tuesday that their mood is upbeat despite last week. "No one's jumped overboard," Fowler quipped.
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