Steele carries the beakless soccer mom vote to victory

The GOP just elected Michael Steele (note: black dude) to the position of RNC chairman in a 6-way race that got much more publicity than one would normally expect for such intra-party politics due to the infamous choice by Chip Saltzman to rally support for his candidacy by sending out promotional CDs featuring song parodies, including one titled "Barack the Magic Negro".

Steele won on the 6th ballot over Katon Dawson of South Carolina who resigned from his country club last September and it was later revealed that the club's deed has a "whites-only" restriction and has no black members. Talk about your stark choices.

[Note: I am not saying that Dawson is definitively racist, but symbolism matters in politics and this looks horrible no matter what his actual personal ethics are.]

Wonkette covered the multiple roll-call votes with typical snarkiness. Although, being required to "live-blog" the voting for a new RNC chairman in order to earn a living would put almost anyone into a bad humor. To wit:

2:34 PM — Truly, these are the worst looking people in America. Even the “youngish” ones look old, they are pale and wrinkled, bad hair and schlubby suits, the few women have awful pinched little mouths, like anteaters, or beakless chickens.