Are GOP Efforts to Woo Minorities at National Convention Too Little Too Late?
- Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:30pm by
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In an election cycle that is already hyper-focused on race, the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, seems to be offering a more diverse array of speakers than it has in the past. Among the ideological blend of Libertarian-leaning Tea Party conservatives and establishment stalwarts, is also a mix of women, Hispanic, and black Republican leaders.
Whether there are enough of them is a separate issue, but unlike the 2004 and 2008 conventions, which combined, offered no more than four real representatives of women, Latinos or Jewish communities (former New York Mayor Ed Koch, Gov. Linda Lingle, Sen. Mel Martinez and Sen. Joe Lieberman), the 2012 contingent seems much more, well, progressive.
The current line-up of speakers includes former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Governors Susana Martinez, Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal, as well as Texas senate hopeful Ted Cruz among several others. If one heeds history, however, this may not be quite the Republican epiphany it appears at first blush. Perhaps Republicans are simply returning to their roots.
Given today’s pervasive stereotypes of Republicans, it is easy to forget the Grand Old Party’s origin — now claimed by the Democrats — as the “champions of the disenfranchised.” Few recall that the GOP was in fact founded as an anti-slavery party and that “Honest Abe” led the charge against the Confederates during the Civil War prior to freeing more than 3 million (and in some estimates, as many as 4 million) slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation. While the road to equality would continue to face grave challenges in the years ahead, under the banner of the Republican Party a new era of freedom and human rights for blacks in America was possible.
At this time, it might be prudent to review Civil Rights legislation that Republicans were responsible for, and which Democrats opposed. Additional details on both parties’ Civil Rights records can be found here and here.
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 18676. The Civil Rights of Act 18667. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 (President Dwight D. Eisenhower)
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
Further, Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation:
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 197322. Voting Rights Amendment of 198223. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
More recently, these unsung “progressives” would become the first to draft modern-day Civil Rights legislation – legislation that was opposed by a series of Democrats, including Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy – all the while remaining the sole guardians of the constitution, standing between the Democrats and their ardent attempts to maintain a segregated South under the very Jim Crow laws they had created.
Yet despite its record of advancing human rights and equality on behalf of embattled minorities, Republicans are now instead portrayed as subjugators, and the legacy of the GOP is wrought in the stereotype that it’s comprised exclusively of wealthy, white men who look down their noses at blacks, Hispanics and other minority groups, while simultaneously waging an all-out “war on women.”
Speaking of the war on women…
The Republican Party, while heavily vested in Civil Rights, also found itself at the forefront of yet another struggle for human rights with women’s suffrage, ultimately granting women the right to vote and run for higher office. Advocating “gender equality” at a time when such terms were unheard of in the daily vernacular may be ironic considering today’s liberal talking points on the issue.
While Democrats often invoke their feminist-credentials when painting themselves the “breakers of
glass ceilings,” another inconvenient historical tidbit may derail their narrative. Women have been included in the Republican Party since its inception in the 1850′s, and Susan B. Anthony, who dedicated her life to women’s suffrage, was the one who in fact drafted the 19th amendment along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. After 40-plus years of Democratic-led opposition, Republicans finally passed the legislation, granting women the right to vote in 1920.
“I think that is an important piece of information for women to remember,” said Rae Chornenky, Chair of the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) during an interview with TheBlaze. So what then would be the basis for a Republican-led assault on women?
Described by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as the “legislative and rhetorical attacks on women and women’s rights…across the nation,” conservatives feel there are few if any more hackneyed claims propagated by the Left than the purported GOP-waged “War on Women.” Conservatives believe the Democratic Party routinely places the pro-choice agenda front and center, even before issues such as the economy, but never more so than during election time.
In fact, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.- California), said recently that this “sickness” (presumably conservative views on abortion and contraception) among Republicans “goes all the way to the top of the Republican ticket.”
“The truth is there’s a war against women, and it’s not going to end until we all say at the polls.”
Boxer also said that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will be the “top generals” of this “war” based solely on the fact that they oppose subsidizing abortion with tax dollars.
Much of the debate, for conservatives, centers around Republican views that abortion and contraception are not “rights” that should be mandated and subsidized by the government.
Opposing the idea that a religious-based employer should be forced to pay for an employee’s contraception when contraception goes directly against that religion’s principles, is, in the minds of conservatives, as egregious an assault on one’s rights as Democrats’ belief in not granting taxpayer subsidized contraception and abortion is to women.
The National Federation of Republican Women’s Chornenky, whose group is 75,000-women strong, believes that the Republican National Committee is sensitive to the issues important to minority groups and that it provides all the necessary resources needed for effective outreach to various communities. As NFRW is the largest women’s political organization, she will be speaking at the convention to show her group’s support for Mitt Romney, who will be officially named the Republican nominee for president at the event.
“I don’t think the media image of Republicans is an accurate image,” Chornenky told TheBlaze. “We’ve said over and over that the mythical war on women is another side show to take attention away from what women are really concerned about.” And for the NFRW Chair, that issue is the economy.
“The media does not give an accurate picture. It is important to give facts and statistics. Since Obama took office…8.1 percent of women are unemployed.”
Chornenky also painted a grim picture of the poverty rate, which, at 40 percent, has skyrocketed among women in the last 17 years. She suspects that entitlement programs have exacerbated the problem in this economic-bracket, where women have ceased to become self-reliant.
“It’s unacceptable,” says Chornenky.
Where did the bond between blacks and Republicans go?
The GOP has a long, tangible history advocating for Civil Rights while Democrats brought the country de jure racism and vehemently opposed any attempts at establishing racial equality until the mid 1960s, when President Johnson finally acquiesced to mounting pressure and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In fact, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, himself, a Republican. Yet a recent NBC-Wall Street Journal poll reveals that “zero percent” of blacks approve of Republican nominee Mitt Romney and this, after members of the black community have even expressed disappointment in Obama.
So what is driving the majority of blacks in America to shun the GOP?
TheBlaze caught up with the ever-outspoken Pastor C.L. Bryant to glean insight into the possible reasons, as well as discuss his take on conservatism and the black community.
“Conservatives now have a great opportunity to build the bridge that was hoped to be built by this first president of color,” Pastor Bryant told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview.
“The Republican Party has a pedigree and long history of making certain that rights were distributed equally according to our constitution. The first plank in the GOP platform when they were formed in the 1850s was the abolition of slavery.”
Bryant, director of the provocative documentary “Runaway Slave” and a former NAACP leader himself, acknowledged that it was in fact Democrats who “stood in the way” of civil rights and progress with their collective push for Jim Crow laws, poll taxes and at the University of Alabama in 1963, when then-Democratic Governor George Wallace, in a symbolic protest against desegregation, stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium to affirm his pledge of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
“This is what Runaway Slave points out,” Bryant explained. “Eisenhower’s civil rights bill was opposed by
Democrats like [Lyndon] Johnson and JFK…They were foes of that 1957 bill.” Bryant went on to explain that the mounting pressure of Civil Rights marches, Martin Luther King’s speeches and the Vietnam War protests combined, all inevitably prompted Johnson to cave in to the mounting tensions. By 1964, LBJ signed into law the civil rights legislation that Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen helped write and pass through Congress.
The end result, however, was a reset for Democrats, who could now claim fame to advancing the cause of Civil Rights. The pastor said it was indeed a clever way to “co-opt the black community,” which has since become an ever-faithful voting bloc for Democrats. He dubs the phenomenon the “new plantation.”
Bryant marveled at the idea that, if asked today, a majority of blacks would invariably say that the KKK and Jim Crow were Republicans creations, when it couldn’t be further from the truth. “They are just that misinformed.”
The pastor, who will be attending the Republican National Convention to promote his documentary, said Republicans have a golden opportunity to use their “rich history to build a bridge” and show that blacks should return to conservatism. However, based on the current speaker line-up that excludes Bryant and other powerful, black conservative voices, “they evidently don’t realize the opportunity because people like me are still on the fringe.”
When asked why the GOP is squandering its chance to renew its ties to the black community, Pastor Bryant suspects that a defeatist attitude is at play. Republicans “are victims of the same type of lie that black folks are a victim of – that it would be futile to attempt to be a Republican,” he noted.
“So you have this place where someone like myself, Allen West and Herman Cain, have to find a way to bring the two camps to the same table. If that happened…and we look at our core values together, without progressive agitators, I think Republicans and black folks will see that they have far more in common than they have differences.”
And Bryant hasn’t had it easy. As a minister of over 34 years and former NAACP president, he claims to have a “unique vantage point” on how the liberal machine operates through bribery and coercion.
“I have seen it with my own eyes — I’ve been approached by progressives with checkbooks and you have to allow it to boil down to character and principle. That is one reason why I did in fact leave the organization [NAACP].”
“Personally, I choose to live with the principle.”
To garner additional perspective from the conservative black community, TheBlaze also spoke with FreedomWorks’ director of outreach, Deneen Borelli, who believes that while the GOP’s pro-civil rights history should speak for itself, the Left is “clever about playing the race card.” She hopes Republicans will be more outspoken about their true legacy in the black community and sees the upcoming election as a perfect opportunity for the Party to convey that message.
The unabashed conservative also told TheBlaze that less government intrusion, lower taxes, and an emphasis on personal responsibility would lead to greater independence for African Americans who are currently under the thumb of welfare programs.
Currently, there are more people on food stamps than ever before – some 46 million in fact – and, according to Borelli, unemployment among blacks is “unacceptably high.”
While the decision to ramp-up conservative outreach in the black community may seem straightforward, race is a touchy subject, especially for a contingent that has been portrayed as being wholly disconnected from the issues important to minority groups. Still, the “Backlash” author feels the need to deliver a message of personal freedom that should trump the fear of being labeled “racist.” Perhaps one way around this challenge, according to Borelli, is to engage and cultivate rising conservative voices in the black community.
The fastest-growing voting bloc
Considered the fastest growing voting bloc, Hispanics now comprise one of the most loyal Democratic contingents in the country. Yet while this demographic embraces a rather conservative social value system and work ethic, it somehow aligns itself with the left when it comes time to visit the polling stations.
Recall that two-thirds of Hispanics – 66 percent – voted for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential
election, despite Republican John McCain’s long-time advocacy of immigration reform and support for the Latino community. Not even his work on comprehensive immigration reform and the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill could secure McCain a decisive victory with Hispanics, who favored George W. Bush by eight percentage points in the 2004 election.
Many believed then, as now, that the reason lies in a broader problem among Latino’s perceptions of Republicans as a whole. While they may favor individual GOP candidates, Hispanics have expressed fear in electing “the party.”
Elizabeth Villegas and Vicente Bustamente, members of the Hispanic Tea Party group, “Amigos de Patriots,” spoke to TheBlaze in July about their outreach work in the Latino community. Villegas said that Spanish television is overrun with anti-Republican commercials, news and programs and that the mindset it has created is difficult to break. She said that Latinos are “misinformed about the conservative movement.”
Amigos de Patriots was created, according to Villegas, as a counterbalance to the liberal onslaught. “I don’t blame them [Hispanics], they are just misinformed.“ She said that while it remains an uphill battle to convert hearts and minds, something has to be done as the rapidly growing Hispanic population — most of whom will end up voting Democrat — will soon “eclipse” conservatives in terms of sheer numbers.
Bustamente believes that an aggressive Democratic-led public relations campaign is underway targeting Latinos and he blames Republicans for not taking outreach seriously. “It’s a huge mistake,” he told TheBlaze.
Invoking the lessons of Sen. McCain, Cecilia Munoz, senior vice president of the office of research, advocacy and legislation at the National Council of La Raza in 2008, told CNSNews in a post-election interview that despite the senator’s popularity among Hispanics, Latinos simply do not trust the Republican Party due to its stance on immigration, which they deem racist.
“They became the party of immigrant-bashing, and the Republican brand was badly tarnished in the Latino community,” Munoz said. “He (McCain) was unable to overcome that. There were other candidates in his party that were running on very harsh anti-immigrant tickets and who had harsh anti-immigrant messages.” So in other words, to Hispanics, a few of who they consider “rotten apples” spoil the bunch.
Time and again, Hispanic conservatives reiterate the same concern and ask the same question: Why isn’t the GOP doing more in terms of outreach in our community? Perhaps by supporting rising stars like senate hopeful Ted Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, Gov. Susana Martinez and others, a turn of the tide might be in store for the GOP.
[Editor's note: In an upcoming article to be released next week, TheBlaze will explore in greater detail how Democrats have successfully managed to cultivate a strong and loyal minority following despite their checkered past.]
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Comments (75)
JohnLarson
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:09pmWhy do conservatives try to take credit for when Republicans used to be Northern liberals?
The conservative South used to be Democrat. Same racist people, different party.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:29pmridiculous
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:33pmTrust me,,, I don’t!! I understand all to well what a war criminal Lincoln and his generals were… and you do too, if you could and be the least bit intellectually honest with yourself.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:58pmAll I know is I can’t stand a Jester.
Report Post »mikegray24
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 7:19pmThen, at what point did you all start associating yourselves with a party of racists? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to join that crowd, no matter what government freebies they promised me.
Report Post »EddardStark
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:40amMy favorite Republican Party was the party of Teddy Roosevelt. The “New Nationalist” Republican Party that vastly expanded government power and regulation, founded the FDA, supported unionization, used the bully pulpit to stand up to big business, pushed for the progressive income tax, accelerated environmental conservation by establishing many of the National Parks and even banned real Christmas trees from the White House, championed the estate (death) tax and pushed for the progressive income tax. Why isn’t the Republican Party embracing that history?
Report Post »obxned
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:33pmThe smallest, weakest, most vulnerable minority in this country is the individual citizen. Our Constitution was written to give each of these minorities life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. While the GOP sometimes forgets this divine principle, the party of Jim Crow Laws, the KKK, and the welfare plantation has never had a clue as to what individual freedom means.
Regrettably, certain groups of citizens usually labelled by their skin color or religion or national origin have been kept uninformed and uneducated so that the Democratic Party can use them for their own ends: the power of their inner circle and all the perks and booty that they can get away with. They don’t give a rats hindquarters for minorities of any kind, just their own bloated egos and wallets.
Report Post »BeefCake1974
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:24pmAre Obama’s efforts to woo white voters too little, too late? Obama is the real bigot, and he must be stopped! http://tinyurl.com/9yf33xa
Report Post »JQuentinEvermann
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:34pmMinorities are, as a group, uninformed on modern politics. They don’t tend to learn anything beyond what has become common “knowledge.” They have never learned that conservatives are fighting for the individual and liberals are pushing for large government and a total welfare system. They will learn too late, I’m afraid, so yes, it’s too little too late because minorities as a group are too little and too late to change their ways.
Report Post »IsThereADifference
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:54pmTrue about Conservatives… The only problem is there are no TRUE conservatives running in this election. I truly doubt there EVER will be.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:20pmfellas…3 generations of indoctrination…the go along to get along, rinos, and working folks who had to get some rest sometime…are in the mess…if we’re going to have a gov. that requires 24/7 survelliance, then we’re electing gumbas…the gov. HAS TO BE REDUCED…it’s like working all day long to feed a family, coming home and herding 8 1/2 million kittens…and that’s thier plan…
Report Post »YtownSports
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:34pmThe answer to the question in the headline is “yes.” Not enough minorities will watch or even pay attention to either convention. Too many will be influenced by the continuing propaganda of the Dems. The GOP will be its own worst enemy by failing to effectively explain its own position and why they think minorities will benefit from it.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:28pm…thanks for the history lesson blaze…but most people don’t see past skin color and false promises. the GOP puts up white bread and vanilla ice cream for the presidential ticket and expect everyone to say “yummy”…too little and way too late…
Report Post »IsThereADifference
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:03pmI’m white and I HATE Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as much as I do Obama. There are way too many IGNORANT people who cannot and will not see the similarities in these people. It’s called PROGRESSIVISM and THE END OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA!!!
I know you already know this MIDWEST. I‘m speaking to the ever sleeping jackass’s of the mob.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:29pmYou’re white and you HATE Mitt Romney… WOW.. Mitt Romney may have made decisions that you don’t accept or like but he is an honorable man and if the American people give him a chance, he’ll make a GREAT president. I’m sorry for you that you HATE….. you sound like a Gary Johnson or Ron Paul supporter…. they can’t see past themselves..I’m flummoxed by people like you who HATE.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:23pmThe only way you can “woo” a group of people is to give them free stuff.
The Democrats wrote the book when it comes to buying votes. You can never outspend or out pander a democrat at anything. Republicans, STAY AWAY from this strategy. The Democrats will sell the entire country if it will fund their victory.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:15pmonly the open minded un owned can be woo ‘d
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:19pmFk minorities!
Report Post »If you don’t consider yourself an American first and foremost, GTFO this country.
FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:13pmBeyond sick and tired of all of the racist, redneck etc. etc. crap. The truth of the matter is, if you are a white southerner you are the minority. Let’s get to the bottom line and solutions, shall we?? Or would that be too easy to turn this great country around? To keep screaming racism etc does not solve the problems our country faces now does it????
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 1:54am.I share your frustration.
This is approaching the uber-rediculous.
I’m rapidly realizing that both parties may be as full of crap as a cornfed steer.
Report Post »Spqr1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:06pmWhat you’re missing is the part where a lot of the racist Southern Democrats jumped ship in 1948 with Strom to form the Dixiecrats, later to be warmly welcomed into the GOP. Then most of the rest left after 1964-65, again to be warmly welcomed into the GOP. The Southern Democrats were always an almost separate entity, that’s why they had to have a separate convention in 1860. Remember when Jack Kemp tried to kick the racists out of the GOP and was roundly rebuked? What about the “Southern Strategy” hiding behind the lie of “States Rights.” Strom Thurmond, the poster boy for Southern, racist segregation died a Republican. Nice try, but reality, once again, is against you…
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:29pmTo tie “states rights” to racism has just about ran its course and being exposed for what it is– just a tired old trick to bully folks to not promote or support the ‘states rights’” issue– Every coal state now understands what its rights as a state are— We will tend to our own EPA matters and you Feds can stick your nose up the UN’s yin-yang where it belongs!!! I say disolve this union and take Obama, pelosi, Biden, Reed AND the Clinton’s as well and go start your own country and model in whatever fashion you desire– But I wonder, you blue-belly liberal twits– who will keep your “trains on time”.,, the Mexicans you are importing by the 1000′s?
Report Post »Spqr1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:44pmWow, absolutely nothing of any substance, just TeaBeckian babbling about non-issues.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:03am“TeaBeckian Babbling” That‘s all they’ve got left. Well, that and the lie about Obama removing the wellfare work requirment that Flipper is pushing so hard. Yup, all they can do know is lie.
Report Post »Spqr1
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:31pm1: the whole wellfare to work thing was debunked weeks ago, and 2: Babbling-********* has great illiteration, just rolls off the tongue.
Report Post »Centralsville
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:00pmI think what they mean by catering to minorities is more government control, more government spending, amnesty for all illegals, more quotas (affirmative action), more government handouts from workers to non-workers. In short, more government destruction of the Middle Class.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:12pmSame as a hog harvest. Build one fence one border at a time then slam the gate on the last feeding.
Report Post »IsThereADifference
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:35pmExactly!!! Who’s to blame??? Republicans and Democrats catering to minorities that’s who. They are on the same team. We the people are all by ourselves. The people don’t get that though… Way too many party line voters who think they are out there making a difference. We are ALL OF US are a bunch of FOOLS who will lose every freedom our founding fathers gave us. This country does NOT deserve FREEDOM. It deserves exactly what it’s going to get. The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS REAL. American citizens are the zombies are they are BRAIN DEAD!
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:59pmWhy would minorities want to vote for a racist organization like the GOP. I mean just look at all the racist anti-black, anti-mexican, and anti-aisan comment on this site daily and you will see that right wingers are the epitome of racism and bigotry.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:14pmHaven’t seen any, moron.. Go back to huffpo and ride out your sub minimum wage seiu/acorn day pay over there young’un!
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:24pmA criticism is better when it’s specific rather than general. Hint hint
Report Post »leonardoverse
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:40pmSpeaking as a Hispanic (but American FIRST), because it’s the party of ideals that lends itself to real freedoms for ALL. Your vicious placating is simply a ruse to steal a vote. In the history of the world there has never been one example of communism that has not ended up in freedoms lost and the death of many.
Give up, troll. You’ve lost. It’s over.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:04pmWow another troll with a government school history education. If you actually picked up a book on history from someone other than howard zinn you would learn that the party of the KKK, segregation, slavery and Jim Crow is your democrat party. So your comments about the GOP show your complete ignorance and stupidity.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:13pmneofan,
Are you blind. Scroll up and down the page and you will see why the right wingers are labeled as the racist party. There is nothing but anti-minority comments on here. Wise up!
Report Post »bannedfromCNN
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:42pmFor ‘your’ people, it‘s little more that the promise of ’free’ money (I wants my Obama money) that keeps them pulling the Dem lever. Add to that the ‘face’ of our current occupant of the (half) White House and you have a powerful attractant – kind of like flies to fec es.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:18pmyeah the romney folks are.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:58pmminorities? you mean white people? because they seem to be the minorities now.
Report Post »FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:14pmExcellent post and I totally agree!!
Report Post »IsThereADifference
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:40pmNo they don’t mean white people. They will never mean white people when speaking about these issues EVER! Whites are evil and they need to step down so the rest of the WORLD can have a chance. This is where we are going. Isn’t this FUN???
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:46pmThe GOP has definetely not supported, sponsered, encouraged and openly stood behind the various black conservative groups that have been trying to get their message out as much as they should have. Not to my knowedge anyway. The black conservative groups should have been highlighted by the GOP, instead of being an after-thought. These groups are a real asset and great people. Youtube and poorly advertised events aren’t cutting it. Too little too late?…..Yea, probably.
Report Post »But after all, the GOP are the ones who ran the McCain campaign. So what should we expect??
Rational Man
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:59pmExamining Black Loyalty to Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xryXpK042pQ&list=PL20219A40AF2FC9C4&index=25&feature=plpp_video
Report Post »ECtech
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:40pmDid you ever think that they DON’T support them BECAUSE they are self-described BLACK “conservative” groups?
Simply put, there should be NO black, latino, Chinese, whatever group. Either you are a conservative OR you are not. Why is there a “need” to separate yourselves from everyone else based on the color of your skin?
First and foremost they should call themselves Americans — no hyphen needed. Second they should simply join with the party they support instead of choosing to alienate themselves based on race or skin color.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 7:25pm@ECtech
No I didn’t “think” of any of that diatribe of yours, because I’m not that stupid.
They are conservative Republicans that just happen to be black. They can convey the message that black Americans need to hear to wake them up to the truth that the Dems have been lying to them and using them to their detriment. Because they are black, they can relate to blacks and their conscerns and make black voters feel comfortable about voting Republican and better convey the reasons why. They are a voting block, just like women are. I guess you don’t think Republican women should talk about issues that concern women?
But all that seems to be way over your ‘pin’ head………….
Go to the link I posted and tell me what you think is wrong with it and why discussions like that should not be promoted by the RNC. The man makes a great case for the Republican Party.
Report Post »If your commenting out of shear racism, then your disqualified anyway…………….
thibx
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:44pmmost people don’t know the kkk was started by the democrats to kill off republicans. blacks used to belong to the republican party. the democrats said we need to kill them off whites and blacks they are getting to powerful. they hung white lawmakers as well as black. robert byrd a democrat and member of the kkk from west va. never renounced the kkk. blacks need to study history.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:37pmAs Rush said “We are all at the Mercy of Stupid Voters”
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:38pmExactly. If they are intelligent and minority, they will vote Republican. If they just want welfare and free stuff, they will vote Dem.
Report Post »IsThereADifference
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:50pmRush is paid off by the RNC. I listen to him every day and it’s obvious. Same with Sean Hannity. They are not journalists but paid for promoters of the people the RNC tells them to promote. They are progressives who are paid to lull sheeple into believing the RNC is not FILLED TO THE BRIM with Progressives.
Yes Yes the Dem’s are even worse but what does that leave this country in the way of seekers of Freedom and Constitutional Liberty? NOTHING! Nobody on either side cares for these ideals any longer. These ideals will not work on the stage of this NEW WORLD ORDER.
WE’VE BEEN HAD!!!
Report Post »MRjensee
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:01pmNOBODY is more racist than the propagandists of the Democrat party. The race card is used on a daily basis and when no racism exists they invent it with the use of so called code words. They are the most hate filled racist, fascists that I have ever seen in my lifetime and I remember the Democrats of JFK’s time.
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:30pmI no longer recognize this GOP. It turns away their core, prevents primary candidates and ex-presidents from speaking and invites its enemies to speak. In November we must abandon the Elite GOP McCain followers and forge a new Party, a Party devoted to vengeance, anger and retaliation.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:59pmThe Republican Party should not have to or attempt to “Woo” anyone. Just stand up for Conservative Principles and against Liberalism and Communism. That is enough!
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:52pmLincoln only freed the slaves in the states that seceded. The rest of the brothers wuz still slaves. Lincoln was not the Great Emancipator. He was the first violator of states rights and first to use extra-constitutional executive orders not unlike Obama. He held the union together by violating the Constitutional rights of all Southerners and set the precedent for all Executive Branch violations of the Constitution. As a Conservative, I am appalled when Lincoln is held up as an example of a great president.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:10pmAgreed.. Lincoln is hailed as the uniter “after” the War…. Lincoln usurped State’s rights and the North was largely responsible for slavery and the cheap materials they wanted. It is ridiculous to think the 99% of Southerners who didn’t own slaves wanted to compete against it. Slavery may have been of the South, but that is where the cotton grew. The Northern Yankees were the exploiters of both the slave Industry and the Southern Tax base they wanted. All this with “taxation without representation”.
Report Post »Oh well— The South is has risen again and will be the death of the progressive Alinsky movement. Obama will not win a single State in the South. Not one!
Brainmuffin
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:45pmThe largest problem for the Republicans is that the minority vote is for sale and they don’t like to spend money.
Report Post »Albear
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:35pmThe Dems might do the work for the GOP. Pushing abortion at the convention? How’s that going to play with the latino community? Just anecdotal, but a young hispanic man, a former gang banger from South Central-turned hair stylist happened to come to our door for some school related fund-raiser. Dude saw the Romney sticker in the window. Pointed. Said, “don’t know anything about him. But I hear Obama is reaaalllly bad on abortion.” Add it up. Young. In Los Angeles. Hispanic. From poor neighborhood. Your perfect Obama voter, you’d think. Nope. That alone, which he obviously heard from parents, aunts, uncles or priest, was a deal breaker.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:32pmGiven that the head of the ticket makes racist birther jokes, the position of the party is to limit the rights of women and the party embraces anti-immigrant reactionaries with open arms. The GOP is focused on becoming the party of White, Southern, Christen Men only, no others need to apply.
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:54pmyou are nuts. Nothing else can be said.
Report Post »MRjensee
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:57pmYou realize Obama is counting on your perpetuating the racial stereotyping of the GOP to get reelected, don’t you? The more divisive he makes us the more sympathetic he thinks the voters will be toward him. If he wins reelection we all lose. Obama is working to systematically destroy America because he believes we have had it too good for too long. The only way we can be brought down is through divisiveness and to create a debt crisis we cannot climb out of. Obama is using the race card all the time. He has enlisted the media to help push that to the limits. Now any, I repeat any opposition to his agenda, his policies are viewed as racist. What he is playing on is white guilt. He is preying on the fact that whites will vote for him to prove that they have no problem with skin color. When in truth it has never been about race. It has been about him fulfilling his anti-colonialist agenda.
Report Post »mikegray24
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:59pmAh, I see someone is subscribed to the DNC newsletter. What a great yarn they spin. I wonder one thing though. At this point, do you say all that stuff just because you want your party to win and you know it’s the best (only?) way to do it? Or have you deluded yourself over a period of time such that you actually truly believe what you’re saying? This is something I’ve never been able to figure out. Just the number of out and out provable lies that Democrats have thrown out there this election cycle has made me seriously consider which of those things is the case. The lies are do easily debunked that I’m leaning toward delusion, but then there’s the whole thing about a lie, spoken enough, eventually becomes the truth. Either way, kudos to you for not letting morals or principle get in the way.
By the way, the head of the Democratic ticket made birther joke too. I guess he can use the “It’s OK, I’m related to a Kenyan” line.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:15pmGive me jobs and future you got my black vote…
Report Post »mikegray24
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:26pmI have really grown tired of the fact that Republicans need to target various groups of people to get them on board. The platform should speak for itself, but no, somehow, progressives have defied logic and have successfully rewritten history over the last 100 years. They have even found a way to co-opt basic vocabulary. The fact that we have to sit here and point out that, no, we don’t want slavery to come back, and no, we don’t want people dying in the streets from lack of health care, and so on, is something I find highly annoying.
Report Post »kung
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:09pmWow, look at all the Republican party has done for minorities. But guess what? It was a bad investment with lousy returns. Today blacks would nominate a brain-dead fool like Alvin Greene before they would vote for ANY patriotic white candidate. So don’t worry about the races, worry about fixing the country and all the races will prosper together (whether they resent it or not).
Report Post »bannedfromCNN
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 5:39pmYou must have this confused with the Democrat Party platform, which you were reading just before posting this idiotic comment…
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