Not One Minority Likely To Win In The GOP
Not one likely senate seat, congressional seat, or governorship, in spite of a stated effort to recruit minorities.
Only four black Republicans – (J.C.) Watts, former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, former Connecticut Rep. Gary Franks and the late Illinois Rep. Oscar Stanton De Priest – have been elected to Congress since Reconstruction…
Watts, for one, rejects the argument that Republicans can’t compete for minority votes or successfully recruit minority candidates. He argues that the party simply hasn’t tried hard enough.
“Unless you have an infrastructure to build off of, it’s all throwing mud at the wall and hoping that some of it sticks,” said Watts. “There’s an entire infrastructure that needs to be thought through, and it seems to me no one is interested in building that.”
Alan, i run a profile on myspace called:
http://www.myspace.com/DemocraticParty
and after work, i hit your website first to get informed of everything in the political world and since you created this blog, most of the material I get comes from your website!
keep up the good job colmes!
May 19th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Yeah, Louie’s got a good myspace page but I warn you: he’s got so much stuff on his page that it’ll crash your computer and make the lights blink in your house. But, it is a good page. :-)
May 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Well… in all fairness, don’t most minorities associate themselves with the Dems?
May 19th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Republican politics of hatred for “different” people will sink that party. Under the rubric of “only lawful immigration”, hate towards foreigners wafts its acrid smoke. Is it so suprising that the South was mostly red despite large % of black americans? When conservatism gets a social conscious and practices its faith based call “to love thy neighbor”, it may rise up again. Until then, may the mud not stick to the wall!
May 19th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Alan, I really appreciate how you have defended Hillary on your radio program. Really you are the only radio talk show host I can tolerate. I can no longer listen to Air America because of their bias.
I am a life long Democrat born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. Chicago is corrupt like you cannot imagine. Obama is a vacuous opportunist straight out of the Chicago political machine. I have no confidence that he will do anything that he says he is going to do.
His has run a vile, racist, misogynistic campaign and your recent caller depicting me as a racist is one of the reasons I will NEVER vote for Obama. I have never voted for a Republican in my life but I do not want Obama to be president.
I am an Irish American who was married to a Nigerian for five years, and I have two half-Nigerian sons. I lived in Nigeria for two years. How dare these despicable people call me a racist.
Rita in Encinitas, CA
May 19th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
to all you kids…go to sleep. Do not bother with these threads. What the hell is LiberalLand anyway….nevermind. Politics is only for the devil. He created it all.
DOn’t forget to say your prayers tonight if you are reading this.
-Oh i forgot ya’ll don’t sleep, you prefer to be sucked up and swallowed by all this politics nonsense.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
hey, i resent that cherylcarroll
i still think my page doesn’t have nearly enough stuff on it!
:)
May 20th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Oh goodness… :-D
May 20th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I wonder how much of the problem is that conservative minorities aren’t inclined to be public about their political views because of the way liberals treat them. “Condoskeezza” and “Aunt Jemima” come to mind, not to mention the virtually assured “Uncle Tom” applied to any black conservative.
I’m not sure the article is correct though, unless by minority it means “black”. There is at least one Governor, without doing any research or anything who’s not up for reelection, so he’ll still be Governor. In fact, he’s been touted as being on the short list for VP.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Quick research gave the lie to the “Not One Minority” unless you’re predicting losses for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:37 am
From what I can see minorities want a political party who will single them out and cater to them rather than one that will treat them as equals and expect as much from them as every other citizen.
Flame away…..
May 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Craig, I’m not even going to address the above statement.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Tom~ what search terms did you use? I searched for black republicans and found an interesting organization called the National Black Republican Association. Here’s a list of famous black repubs:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_American_Republicans
Looks like hispanics have the Rep. National Hispanic Assembly.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am
add an “Http://” to the beginning of the link, the only way I could get LL to accept the comment was by deleting that part. Here’s another interesting one:
http://www.ethnicmajority.com/congress.htm
Mel Martinez and Devin Nunes should also be on Tom’s list. The Dems have elected the most minorities to Congressional office by far. So far it looks like Alan’s post is correct: there’s currently no minority likely to win a Congressional seat, and from what I can see there have only been 4 black REPUBLICANS since Reconstruction.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Did you ever think that it has nothing to do with our “hatred of minorities” but rather the fact that we would rather have someone who is qualified representing us then someone who is black just because they are black? I have NEVER cared about what someone’s race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference, birth order, marital status, hair color, eye color, accent, native tongue (is that politically correct to say?), weight, financial background, or anything else that separates each individual from everyone else. However I do care about their education, and personal background (I know that sounds mean to you liberals but stay with me). Just because someone is a minority, and contrary to what you believe, that DOES NOT make them automatically qualified for every job in this country.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Everyone on this blog isn’t a liberal…
As evidenced by the “iHate” thread, racism is alive and well throughout our nation and our world. We can’t forget that it exists, nor can we assume that every decision made that’s different from our will is because of racism.
We need balance, and understanding.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Yes we do, however people forget how many out there are victims of reverse discrimination, but you do not see those cases all over the news. It seems to be acceptable to screw over the white male in our society today. But isn’t the point of equality is that everyone’s included in it. Too often minorities play the race card to get special treatment and quite frankly I am sick of it. Why should state run universities have to have accept a certain percentage of blacks and a certain percentage of Asians? Why can’t they accept student based on their abilities? Until minorities want to be treated fairly and not get special privileges there will never be equality in America. But let’s face it…who wants to give up special treatment?
May 21st, 2008 at 9:13 pm