Posted on 08/23/2009 1:26:17 PM PDT by Talkradio03
Bishop represents a district that votes for ‘Rats most of the time, but Republicans occasionally win elections there. This time, a credible Republican has announced his candidacy.
The conflict will be between individualists and elitists.
Elitists include those who put these people in power because they “know better”, and those IN power who think they “know better”.
Whew, it was southwest GA...I thought it might have been my whitehaired hotheaded mother in Atlanta. My first thought when I read the title was that I would have to come up with some bond money to bail her out of jail.
LOL!
Sanford Bishop used to be the sanest member of the CBC, and was targeted to switch parties, but he has moved well to the left since the ‘90s.
The district is like 45% black. Bishop is the only black rat who’s district is not majoirty black and who until recently has not voted like a moonbat (ACU lifetime rating 32% last 2 years 4%).
The combination of conservative rural whites and blacks and the differing turnout of the 2 groups produces a seat that narrowly voted for Gore, Kerry and Obama.
This is an ideal seat for black Republican to try for as Dylan Glenn did.
For years I hoped that erstwhile conservative Democrat Sanford Bishop would switch to the GOP, but his voting record has veered way to the left (as you mentioned) and obviously we should try to defeat him instead. Dylan Glenn ran a strong race in 2000, but the district is more heavily Democrat now and Glenn already ran for Congress in an adjoining CD that includes the other half of Columbus, Glenn’s and Bishop’s hometown.
We need a black conservative to run. We’re not going to win the district with a white candidate. I hate for race to be a factor in selecting a nominee, but facts are facts, and it would be very difficult to defeat Bishop if we don’t get at least 20% of the black vote, which a white Republican won’t get against Bishop.
And, of course, electing a black conservative to Congress, particularly from a black-plurality district, should pay dividends for us in future elections nationwide.
Our party’s record with not just Black recruitment, but outreach & appeals (without moving leftward) and fully-funding said candidates has been horrible (and not much better with Hispanics outside of FL, the lone success).
I’ve said many times there was no excuse for not having elected anywhere from 6-12 Black GOP members by now after having had the majority, some of these from districts (say 40% Black), or even Dem-leaning urban districts (such as Indianapolis, where Dr. Marvin Scott ran remarkably well, with no money, or Teresa Doggett running in the Austin-centered TX-10 in the ‘90s against JJ Pickle and Lloyd Doggett (of no relation)), pulling over people like Bishop (before he went to the dark side), or Rev. Floyd Flake, who was just begging us to give him a reason to switch, and who probably would’ve been enormously helpful if we had ever gotten serious about doing a national drive to up the Black GOP vote.
I worry now it may be too late to make the kind of inroads we could’ve 15 years ago, especially with Zero setting himself up to be the great Black martyr when the real disasters of his “leadership” are felt full-force shortly.
“this is an epidemic of congressmen going home to VERY hostile town meetings.”
Republicans and conservatives don’t seem to have this problem.
If we could have beaten the rats to the punch with a black candidate for President (or maybe VP) (not Colin Powell) that would have been a big help.
Not that I see the half African/half White Obama as having anything in common culturally with the decedents of American slaves, but they don’t appear to care about that.
If we had developed a farm team, it would’ve been easier, otherwise we have to go out to the private sector to get someone, and that could be hit or miss not knowing how’d they perform in a political capacity. Witness a certain fella in New Orleans who was a Republican who ran as a Dem out of convenience and was doing quite well until a natural disaster struck... Holding a prior office at least gives us an opportunity to see how they might turn out.
As for Colin Powell, had he run in ‘96, he probably could’ve beaten Bubba... but he would’ve been a RINO fiasco constantly pissing off Conservatives (and he likely would’ve lost us Congress in ‘98). And we can guess who would’ve beaten him in 2000...
Gore? Gray Davis? ;o
I’m sure bubba would have loved to pull a Grover Cleveland. Whether the rats would have wanted him though is doubtful.
Given all the sex scandals and the like, it’s highly doubtful they’d have allowed Bubba to run again. It would’ve been Gore.
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