Republican Michael Steele Hosts ‘Hardball,’ Yet Still Bashes the GOP on Race

A Republican Hosts 'Hardball,' Still Bashes GOP on Race (NewsBusters)

Is there a requirement for Republicans to host a show on MSNBC? Trash the GOP and you can anchor a program? Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday lectured his party about bigotry, wondering, "Is the Republican Party finally ready to confront the issue of race in America?" 

Filling in for Chris Matthews (and sounding like him), Steele sneered, "In many respects, the party's clinging to an old Southern strategy that proved the basis for electoral success in the past but which gives them little chance of winning the White House in the future."  Speaking for the GOP, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland asserted that "we still seem to have these vestiges within the party that cling onto the strategy where there's this focus, almost pull towards" a "polarizing moment where you're almost separated between whites and blacks."