Republican party chair Ken Mehlman was for black people before he was against them

My favorite part of the AP story about Mehlman's imminent departure from the head of the Republican party:

Last year, Mehlman told NAACP members that the Republican Party was wrong for ignoring the black vote for decades and said he hoped the groups could restore their historic bond.

"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," Mehlman said at the NAACP convention. "I come here as Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

Yes, that was July of last year, before the Republicans left thousands of black-Americans to fend for themselves in New Orleans while Bush stayed on vacation, and before Mehlman's own Republican National Committee ran racist ads just two weeks ago against African-American Democrat Harold Ford in Tennessee.

Yeah, Ken would never try to benefit from racial polarization.

Or homophobia.