Michael Steele ruffled Republican feathers with his recent politically correct suggestion on “Good Morning America” that he has a “slimmer margin” for error as chairman of the GOP because he is a black man.

John King of CNN asked Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who once held the post Steele now does at the Republican National Committee, whether Steele is held to a “different standard” because of the color of his skin. Barbour answered by reminding King of his own political handicap:

Look — you know — when you’re a fat redneck like me and got an accent like mine, you can say, “Well, they’re going to hold me to a higher standard.” In fact, I don’t think anybody ever held me to a higher standard than I held myself. That’s the way I was raised. That’s what I was brought up to do. That’s the way it ought to be.

Ain’t that the truth! Oops, I forgot I ain’t s’posed to say “ain’t.” They taught us that in the Redneck School of Higher Standards.