Posted on 06/29/2009 4:33:51 PM PDT by AJKauf
Just about everyone acknowledges, inside the Republican Party and out, that the GOP needs to do a much better job of bringing minorities into the party. But how? There’s a big problem with implementing this idea — one that is seldom discussed.
The obstacles that prevent Republicans from bringing more minorities into the party are as cultural as they are political. Many blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, and even women instinctually vote Democrat, even when their views more closely align with the Republicans.
It would be ambitious to imagine the GOP could get 50% of every one of those groups. But is it really out of the question to get 35% of the black vote as opposed to the 10% the party usually gets, or 45% of the Hispanic vote as opposed to the roughly 30% pulled in normally? Not at all, and such an achievement could create a powerful political shift to the right in this country.
The problem with attempting to do this is that the Republican Party has ceded leadership in minority communities, almost by default, to the Democrats. Y..
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Easy. Quit pandering to every American as groups of people and instead embrace the individual.
Exactly. “Identity politics” is nonsense lib crap.
In 2008, if John McCain had received 60 percent [vice 55 percent] of the “white vote,” he would have won even if Barack Obama had received the entire Hispanic vote. Credible surveys indicate that the major policy concerns of Hispanics/Latinos were no different than the concerns of non-Hispanics/Latinos. The economy and jobs topped the list. There is little evidence that immigration policy was an influential factor in Hispanics’/Latinos’ choice between the two candidates once basic party predispositions are taken into account. The size of the Latino voting population should be kept in perspective alongside other subsets of the electorate. An estimated 11.8 million voters were of Latino ancestry, compared with 17 million African Americans, 19.7 million veterans, 23.6 million young people, 45 million conservatives, and 34 million born-again white Christians.
Why can’t the GOP get votes from nearly all Catholic Hispanics?
And Hawkins, who wrote this piece of crap, should be purged from the GOP ranks and join up with the David Frum's and Meaghan McCain's of the world, for merely suggesting that the GOP emulate the Democrat party in every way.
Easy. Show them how the Democrats are exploiting them for votes and power, miring them in victim mentality, and using them as a cover for their socialist ideas.
Hispanics have an out of wedlock birth rate of 50% and the highest school drop out rate of any group. They are becoming part of a growing, permanent underclass that is dependent upon government.
Hispanic Family Values? Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass.
Because they’re Catholic in as far as the tattoo weeping Jesus’ on their backs and hang rosaries on their rear view mirrors. Also, they won’t vote for a gringo who’ll take away their welfare benefits.
Came to post the same; you summed up my thoughts in a nice, neat package. Kudo's.
Cannot even BEGIN to pontificate enough how thoroughly tired I am of always being exposed to some form or function trying to affiliate me to a "group". I am in a group already, the human race. Now, leave it at that and let me figure out my place in humanity and Government stay the hell out of that decision making process; thank you very much.
Everybody is Equal!
“It would be ambitious to imagine the GOP could get 50% of every one of those groups”
No need to treat one group of people any different than another.
Quit trying to kiss A— and just start doing what is right for the Nation as a WHOLE! Screw the special interests!
Why didn’t Republicans, with majorities in both houses and the presidency from 2001-2007, end all taxpayer funding for those groups? They are as complicit as the Hate America Party.
Please cite the last DECADE that either one of those vote totals happened in a national election.
When you've figured that out, please cite the last decade that BOTH of those happened in the SAME national election.
I think you will find that in the second instance that has NEVER happened yet. But according to the author, no reason we can't just get there, and very soon.
Follow this approach into the depths of disaster. Wake-up GOP. You need Americans that believe in truth, honesty, values, small government that balances its budget, gets out of the way and lets the individual and businesses do the job that keeps the Nation strong. Could care less about color, race, creed or whatever. Just good old fashion Americans. If that is you, join the GOP and keep America a stalwart in the world.
It’s time for the Republican party to grow a pair.
....And ditch Michael Steele.
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