Tennessee GOP needs to learn Letterman's lesson

David Letterman finally offered a real apology for his tasteless "joke" about Sarah Palin's daughters. It took him a week and one faux-pology before he finally took responsibility for his actions and apologized (which Palin accepted).

One can only hope that it takes less than week for the Tennessee GOP and staffer Sherri Goforth to correct their horrendous mistake and issue an actual apology, preferably while firing Goforth.

She is an aide to a Republican Tennessee state senator who sent out a racist "joke" email. In it, pictures of all of the former Presidents are shown except President Obama, who was depicted as a pair of white eyes over a black background.

It is reprehensible both personally and politically. And as if she wanted to make matters worse, Goforth apologized ... for sending the email to the wrong list!

When I asked her if she understood the controversial nature of the photo, Goforth would only say she felt very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list. When I gave her a second chance to address the controversial nature of the email, she again repeated that she only felt bad about sending it to the wrong list of people.

“I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Goforth told NIT. “I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

Idiot! It's not about sending it to the wrong list. It's about being a racist moron who does not even have enough sense to apologize for being a racist moron. Even David Letterman saw that the heat was too much and he needed to offer a real, non-joke apology.

For the good of the party she claims to represent, she needs to resign. If she won't, she needs to be fired to show the nation that the GOP will not put up with stupid racism. It's hard enough for Republicans to make political criticisms of President Obama without idiot staffers sending racist emails, refusing to apologize for the racist content and the state GOP thinking the appropriate course of action is "a letter of reprimand."