Outreach is an individual thing and we all need to find a way to pull down the fence because the plantation is growing and encompassing an ever larger cross section of America.
The GOP wants big government. They want lots of money to play with, so that highly paid professional government experts can keep doing what they've been doing (ex. Rove). Having Democrats in charge provides perfect cover for Republican experts to keep riding the gravy train. Life would be a lot harder if the Republicans actually had to demonstrate some kind of success. They want to fail.
It's better to focus on getting the NET TAXPAYER vote, and not worry about what color your voters come in.
You need to target a certain segment of blacks, middle class black families, that’s the vote the GOP needs to go after, the inner-city population, you can pretty much forget.
Project 21; a group of intelligent, articulate black conservatives not afraid to speak out to other blacks about the evils of liberalism....these brave, patriotic Americans would push the GOP over the top...
then again most of them believe in Tea Party principles so its not wonder they’ve been shunned by the GOPe...
The Republicans need to simply take the moral high ground WITH OUT BEING EMBARRASSED.
1. Point out gay marriage is wrong.
2. Be the party of God.
3. State unequivocally that abortion is wrong.
4. Clearly describe why big government is destroying the middle class.
5. Above all, MOCK OBAMA’S INABILITY TO STOP SPENDING ON HIMSELF.
Using AF to get into college hurts qualified young Americans and it also hurts the unqualified [ who can not do the math, etc. / have terrible SAT’s ] with the prefered skin color as they promptly flunk out.
However the teacher Unions and Universities like getting the cash.
More Thomas Sowell and less Zo Nation!
I'm baffled, too, Thomas. I'm baffled that they are still a MAJOR party...
If you wanted to win conservative Black voters you'd probably go to the South, but 1) Republicans carry most of those states anyway and 2) African-Americans pretty nearly are the Democratic Party in those states, so they're going to vote Democrat in any case.
Sowell could say that it's patronizing for Republicans to ignore those Southern Black voters. Maybe it is. But it also may be patronizing to assume that one could just scoop up those voters.
Red state Democrats and blue state Republicans (to use the cockeyed color symbolism of the media) have reasons for being what they are and voting as they do. The opposing party can fight to win their votes, but recognize that they do have their reasons for not going along.
“I hope that does not happen to Dr. Carson,” he adds. “He really seems like an extraordinary man — and I would hate to see him diminished in any way because of politics.”
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Amen to that.
If put in terms of political selfishness we should throw blacks overboard and go after Hispanics because there are more of them.
We decided a long time ago, after trying and trying to get Blacks to come into the party, that it was hopeless and we did not need them to win. They won’t budge from the Dem party and they persecute any Blacks who do. Dems love it when we fail to get the Dem. Blacks to come over because they can say...”see, it’s racist whitey.” Forget Blaks.
We need to divide Hispanics from the gangsta/criminal/underclass black racist thing liberals highlight to a Christian middle class ideal and vision - more like is of their cultures at home.
Hispanics did not come here to live with criminals and corruption and the poverty of liberalism’s broken families and ghettos. We should say so and be the party to move them up and out. We should make Hispanics a Republican stronghold in the cities in competition with urban blacks. We need to demonize Marxism which liberals call “socialism” or “progressivism.” That should be easy given the history of the ideology in practice. We should push a small business building economic effort for Hispanics.
Education is a real problem for all American children. Hispanics need better education and higher success rates and could be sold on vouchers so their kids can go to Christian schools. Most Hispanics reject liberal racism - hatred of whites. Culturally, the Christian ones are not too into hatred, are not into crime and are not into city life - ghettos. They don’t want their girls acting like pole dancing sluts, voting with their “lady parts.” Culturally, they believe in dignity and honor.
We need to be the Hispanic and white party base and let the Black racism do it’s thing with the radicals. We should isolate the democrat’s drop out, gansta/pole dancing slut thing and demonize it as a dead end street in life. I know plenty of Hispanic immigrants in Texas who are more “white” than whitey as far as family values and their dreams of opportunity and rising out of poverty. They need a voice and avenue to move into an alliance with American-Americans who care about families, freedom and opportunity. We need to push hispanic small business efforts. Hispanics will be the ones to carry America forward if we get in there and help.
82...man, how I wish Dr. Sowell was 42.