06-16-2010, 10:52 AM
out this conflict is what it ultimately may mean for the GOP in the longer term. How many people of color who once may have found the GOPââ¬â¢s principles appealing will again be turned away from the Republican Party as they see a prominent person of color cast as mendacious and disloyal? Will another higher office-ready Indian-American woman or Latino man who might have been the partyââ¬â¢s next Haley or Marco Rubio decide to sit out politics or worse yet, go to bat for a more welcoming Democratic Party because Republicans are simply incapable of ostracizing a racially antagonistic core that is so prominent and powerful among their base?