Former RNC Rival Takes Shot At Steele

One of Steele's rivals for the RNC chairmanship took Steele to task Monday for attributing his problems to race.

Kenneth Blackwell, a former Ohio secretary of state who ran against Michael Steele for RNC chairman, said Steele's argument that he has a "smaller margin of error" because he's black is "ridiculous."

"This notion that this disturbing pattern of gaffes and missteps is now being criticized solely because he is black, and that Barack Obama is being criticized for his big-government power grab solely because he is black — that is nonsense," Blackwell told Fox News's Neil Cavuto.

"And here's a person who is leading Lincoln's party, and now he's falling back on this crutch of race. That's disturbing," Blackwell added.

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