GOP's appeal to blacks real

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | August 8, 2004 | Jim Wooten

[GeronL]

OK. Jim Wooten is gonna hear about this from the far left. He got off the Democrat playbook ... WAY WAY WAY off.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Wooten is in the trenches at AJC. Sort of like Jeff Jacoby is at the Boston Globe.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We absolutely need Dylan Glenn in there along with Vernon Robinson in North Carolina. They are the seeds from which great things will sprout.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[AuH2ORepublican]

"We absolutely need Dylan Glenn in there along with Vernon Robinson in North Carolina. They are the seeds from which great things will sprout."

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Amen to that. We lost a tremendous opportunity when Herman Cain lost the Senate race in Georgia, but at least by electing two black Reagan conservatives to the House we will begin the conversation that, God willing, will lead to more and more blacks realixzing that they are ill served by the Democrats' liberal agenda. And once we get 30% of the black vote, we will have a lasting majority in both houses of Congress and in the White House.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

And once we get 30% of the black vote, we will have a lasting majority in both houses of Congress and in the White House.

Bump!

[EternalVigilance]

Alan Keyes' Senate bid is already impacting the black community as well.

He is a hero to many blacks already, and that number will only grow as more of them are exposed to him.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's time for a big push.

[cyborg]

He was reaaaaaaly good last night on BET. He said exactly what he said on Fox News. He's not two faced, saying one thing to white people and another to black people. The reporterette on BET News looked a little put off but not too put off. Alan Keyes is VERY straightforward and not a BS artist. I think I'll go mosey on over to the BET message boards and see what's being said.

[gathersnomoss]

What are we thinking? Republicans are working against our natural born tendency's to screw over the black man. (sarcasm off)

[cyborg]

Let's see, only one positive comment about Keyes on BET message board after the interview. I think Keyes reaaaaaly got under some viewers' skins.

[Captain Kirk]

Hero to many blacks? The latest polls show him at less than ten percent of the black vote in Illinois.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

He get's under LIBERALS' skin.

[cyborg]

Maybe a hero to black conservatives, but the rat demographic just sees him as being a lawn jockey of the republican party.

[cyborg]

That's really obvious judging from the response to his candidacy.

[EternalVigilance]

That is only the starting point.

But he is doing press like a whirlwind.

Watch those numbers rise.

Be patient, it won't necessarily all happen overnight (though more than could have been hoped has), but over the course of months, after they've had a chance to actually listen to him, they WILL be affected.

No way to know if it will be enough, but all Alan has to do is peel off 1 in 20 of them that Republicans wouldn't have normally gotten, and he will win.

[Captain Kirk]

I am more pessimistic than you are. The black vote will not budge. It is *primarily" motivated by ideology not the skin color of particular candidates. Blacks are ideologically predisposed to vote Democratic and it wouldn't matter if Bush chose Rice as a veep though he might do a bit bitter if he chose a moderate type like Powell.

Keyes, on the other hand, will be dismissed by black voters as beyond the pale as...he was in Maryland....as he was when he ran for president. I used to believe otherwise but no longer do.

[EternalVigilance]

We'll see.

The thing I think you're missing from your equation is the fact that there are many blacks of faith who at some point are going to tire of the Dem plantation, where gay marriage and abortion (of a huge number of blacks) is the order of the day, and where school choice is a distant dream.

[Captain Kirk]

I agree....on particular issues blacks are socially conservative (and always have been). They don't seem to care enough about these issues, however, to change their votes. Their support for big government on other issues trumps all else.

Again, I could be wrong.....but after years of trying to run black conservatives and appeal to these conservative instincts without making any headway, you have to start wondering.

As you say, however, Keyes will have a chance to prove me wrong. I hope he does!