CNN: Gut Check: How can Republicans attract more African-Americans?

[divideandconquer]

Gut Check: How can Republicans attract more African-Americans?
Posted: 07:29 AM ET
Carol Costello - Correspondent, CNN's American Morning
Filed under: Gut Check

By Ronni Berke and Carol Costello, CNN

(CNN) – Political blogger Sophia Nelson considers herself to be a long-time Republican moderate – at least until recently, when she says she’s become more libertarian and independent.

“The problem with the Republican Party now is that (it) is identified with the Tea Party, with the conservative movement,” Nelson, editor-in-chief of politicalintersection.com, explains. Nelson identifies more with Republicans like the late New York Congressman Jack Kemp and former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman.
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:argh:I've heard this meme numerous times on NPR, CNN, etc, Why don't minorities vote GOP? It's amazing propaganda. Every election season as long as I can remember in my voting life, the GOP finds some group to demonize, one time it's blacks, next time gays, another time Latinos, then Muslims, etc, then the media acts like minorities aren't being fair to the Republicans, they just won't give the poor GOPer's a chance.

[spanone]

1. dismantle it

[Arkana]

2. Perhaps they should have thought of that before putting up every

card-carrying Klan member in the lower 48 up for election.

[divideandconquer]

3. This is the media's "dog whistle" to moderate whites that it's not racist to vote GOP

"The real problem is that minorities won't give the otherwise wonderful GOP a chance".

[RandomThoughts]

4. I shouldn't laugh at that.

But it is funny.





The race thing really is not something to make decisions on.

[rocktivity]

22. .

rocktivity

[hatrack]

5. Oh, I dunno . . . stop being the Official Party of Racist Assholes?

Then again, what do I know?

Silly me!

[XemaSab]

8. Not to mention the party of "Fuck the Poor"

:P

[guitar man]

6. what, you mean this didn't work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciGMyX84RsY

:rofl:

[glen123098]

7. Reincarting the corpse of lincoln might do it...

On second thought nothing could.

[valerief]

9. Release a report that says Reagan was one-quarter black.

Of course, that would explode teabagger heads.

[KamaAina]

15. Or that John McCain has a black baby

oh, right, been there, done that. :eyes:

[valerief]

21. I knew Reagan. Reagan was a friend of mine. McCain is no Reagan.

I'd love to hear that one of these days.

[mike r]

10. They can line up and jump off a cliff

and do the world a favor.

[Overseas]

11. Well gee, let's see. Hmmm. Golly. Who wouldn't vote for the party of permanent war?

GOP policies increase the gap between rich and poor and prefer to cut compassionate spending and pour money into war profiteering and condone torture and cut regulation on business and increase regulation on personal freedom and lie through their teeth every day.

Maybe minorities understand tyranny better. Maybe they've seen countries ruled by strong plutocracies of the super rich before.

Totally ridiculous question. And it is not the damn tea party only. It is that Republicans have been pushing their Give to The Rich Economics and it crashed our economy. GOP policies crashed our economy. GOP pretend military strength ruined our national security. Why would anyone support them any more?

And then there are the Geneva Conventions. And Nuremberg Nuremberg Nuremberg. Abu Ghraib happened before the right wing PR machines rolled out their Tea Party crap.

[gratuitous]

12. Shorter CNN: We think minority persons are imbeciles

Many years ago in college, I was eavesdropping on a conversation some of the young ladies were having. One of them was talking about a young man about campus, and whether he might fancy one of the young ladies as she fancied him. Another young lady said, “He thinks you have a nice personality,” and the group broke up laughing. I thought, “Well, that’s nice; why are they laughing about that?” I inquired further, and found out that “nice personality” was code for “He thinks you’re a dog.”

Oh.

As an outsider to the conversation, I was quite ignorant of what was really being said, and in the same way, CNN is either ignorant or disingenuous when they wonder why minorities don’t flock to the GOP banner.

[Juche]

13. I can't figure out why white people vote GOP

Why you'd vote for a party of plutocrats is beyond me. None of the whites that I know are or will ever be plutocrats, they are all working class and middle class.

If the GOP didn't make demonization, segregation and oppression of minorities (racial, religious, ethnic, cultural) part of its basic psychology that would help. But that isn't going to happen.

[lolly]

14. Because they've been told minorities are the enemy

By the GOP.

The reason you're unemployed? Affirmative Action hires (or the current fav, illegal immigrants) took your job!

Not, of course, because we've given tax breaks for outsourcing.

[Marr]

17. They don't think they're on top of the pile...

They just want to be sure they aren't on the bottom of it. They'll vote for racists and plutocrats because they know that will keep them at least one rung up from the bottom.

At least, that's how it's always seemed to me.

[KamaAina]

16. Elect an African American chairman of the RNC?

Oh well, tt seemed like a good idea at the time... :P

[Vinca]

18. It couldn't hurt to take down the racist signs, but then they might have to . . .

AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH . . . associate with "the black."

[libodem]

19. How 'bout

They flat out advertise for 'Uncle Tom' types to apply? Yawza.

[EC]

20. It's their victim mentality

They set themselves up so they can say "Oh Woe Is Me..." on everything....


They don't understand that there are consequences for behavior and are unable to control themselves. Or for that matter they don't know enough to know they should control themselves.