A Single, Blunt Question for the Non-(White, Male, Christan) Voter (VANITY)

Me | August 12, 2012 | Windcatcher

[Windcatcher]

Now that Mitt Romney has chosen his Vice Presidential pick and the obligatory praises and hand-wringing has begun, I'd like to focus on one particular aspect of the Ryan pick:

He isn't a member of any of the protected/privileged/special minority classes.

Which is to say, he's a white male Christian.

The horror!

Already, whispering across the Plains of Punditry and echoing through the Canyons of Polling comes an unwelcome sound: the chant that this does nothing for women and minorities. Romney didn't appeal to them before picking Ryan, and the two of them don't after.

So let me get right to it.

To everyone across the fruited plain who isn't a white, male, Christian, I ask the following: would you, indeed will you, reject an idea out of hand merely because the messenger isn't like you?

If the messenger doesn't share your gender, does that make you unwilling to listen?

If the messenger doesn't share your ethnicity, does that make you unwilling to listen?

If the messenger doesn't share your religion, does that make you unwilling to listen?

Well? Inquiring minds would like to know. What is more important to you: that someone share your background or that someone present a good idea? The implication from Democrats for decades has been that people won't support you unless you pander to them ad nausea -- speak with the same inflection, dress like they do, and generally kneel, pucker up, and smooch their posterior until told to stop.

And maybe not even then.

Is this true, or are you prepared to prove the cynics wrong?

[Revolting cat!]

I'm waiting for the single blunt question you promised, Windy?!

[Windcatcher]

Hee, hee. That was a little test ;^)

[Tanniker Smith]

Which is to say, he's a white male Christian

So is Biden. 0 didn't even consider otherwise. (No one will ever convince me he considered Hillary.)

[BO Stinkss]

Judge a man by the content of his character? Are you nuts! The protected class is anti white christian male and will reject both of these honkies without a second thought.

[justiceseeker93]

He isn't a member of any of the protected/privileged/special minority classes.

In America, 2012, "protected/privileged/special" isn't necessarily the same as "minority" (meaning, according to the dictionary, less than 50% of the total). There is one group - females - which constitute a majority and which I think you would agree are "protected/privileged/special" in current law (and in the 'Rat party structure). And there are many groups which are "minorities" according to Webster and which are not specifically protected in the legal structure: males, Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans, Greek-Americans, Jews, Catholics, and even WASPS for example.

So you have to be more specific with your definitions.

But you are right: Ryan doesn't fall into any of the demographic classifications that 'Rats play to nowadays, although they did historically pander to Irish Catholics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when a large segment of their big city bosses were of that group.

BTW, you could have added "heterosexual" to your descriptors of Paul Ryan which remove him from the "protected/privileged/special".

[left that other site]

Being a member of a “protected/privileged/special” group is meaningless IF one is perceived as conservative:

Michelle Malkin is an Asian-American Female
Sarah Palin is a Female
Cong. Lt. Col. Allen West is a Black American
Herman Cain is a Black American
Condi Rice is a Black Female
Bobby Jindal is of Indian Descent
Marco Rubio is Latino

All of the above individuals have been horribly attacked by the left wing media and called by racial epithets, vile stereotyping, and false accusations. Their “minority” status doesn’t help them one iota.

[Salvation]

What do you know about Mormonism?

[Nea Wood]

I want the best person for the job and couldn’t care less if they’re “like me” (female.) I’m not crazy about Romney, but nowadays, sadly, it takes courage to choose a white, heterosexual, Christian male (like our Founding Fathers were!) and I think more highly of Romney for doing it.

[justiceseeker93]

All of the above individuals have been horribly attacked by the left wing media and called by racial epithets, vile stereotyping, and false accusations. Their “minority” status doesn’t help them one iota.

That's very true and indicative of the fact that leftist institutions are considerably more bigoted than conservative ones. In all the cases you mentioned, it was conservative people and institutions that helped more to catapult them to their current positions of prominence - and well deserved, I might add - than leftist programs like affirmative action.

[left that other site]

Excellent Point!

[Windcatcher]

Not a thing. Then again, I couldn’t care less if he left offerings to Zeus and Athena. I’m not voting for Pope.

[RedMDer]

Click the link. The Republic you save may be your own.

[randog]

LOL!!

[WMarshal]

What it means is that he wont win NY or CA and he wasn't going to anyway. We are going to go down the path of South Africa unless we change course. If whites thought that the Republicans were really going to look out for them then Republicans would win a landslide

[2001convSVT]

The main problem I see/hear from liberal voters is that they don't know how an economy operates or where money comes from, hence they don't believe there can be any limit to how much money the rich have (and can be taxed) or how much the government can spend (the speed of the printing press is the only limit). The only reason to not give them anything is because the Right is just mean, is racist or trying to keep them down.

[JimRed]

If the messenger doesn’t share your gender, does that make you unwilling to listen? No, Sarah palin proves that.

If the messenger doesn’t share your ethnicity, does that make you unwilling to listen? No, Herman Cain proves that.

If the messenger doesn’t share your religion, does that make you unwilling to listen? No, Mitt Romney proves that.

Let me make clear that I was not a Romney supporter and would prefer a true conservative, but I am also a realist.

[Ohioan]

The "diversity" cult, the pretended need to appeal to special groups, as special aggrieved groups, as well as the use of inappropriate terms, such as "underprivileged or "over-privileged,"disadvantaged" or "privileged," etc., are all part of a studied Leftwing attack on any American future. Some of their antics are designed to appeal to all that is base in the human character--to envy & resentment; to the desire to blame someone else for one's own mistakes, etc.. Others are designed to intimidate & silence opposition; to condition the susceptible, like so many Pavlovian dogs, to remain silent, while their world is being dismantled.

That Gov. Romney did not fall into the obvious trap, which would have entailed picking someone to appeal to a supposedly "disadvantaged" group, reconfirms my belief that he really is the "problem solver," claimed; and that we can reach him in the future, by patient, polite & persistent focus on the real issues that will govern the future.

See Gov. Romney & American Conservatism.

This should no longer be considered merely a "virtual endorsement."

Romney/Ryan offers our best option since 1984 (the last time we had a clearly Conservative Republican choice).

William Flax

[Ohioan]

Thank you for the ping. See my reply at #18.

My one additional comment would be this. Both those whom the Left demonizes & blames for others' problems, and their supposed beneficiaries for Governmental intervention in the rights of American citizens, are alike victims of a completely false analysis of the human condition, & what actually benefits anyone. The only people who actually benefit from Collectivist Egalitarianism, are demagogues & scoundrels.

The compulsive applications of Leftist theories clearly sabotage the human potential among all races, nations, tribes, communities & families. What we are challenged by is a war against reality, by cloudborne theorists & the scoundrels & demagogues who seek to exploit the damage that the cloudborne theorists in Academia, have wrought.

William Flax