Following that kind of defeatism, we should just fold it all up and climb into a cave while we're still ahead. What you're really saying is that human nature dictates that things will always degenerate into economic canibalism through "social justice." Or do you think that the Asian vote will always go to the party offering the most financial freedom? That the Hispanic (grrrr ... not even a race, just anyone from Western Hemisphere former colonies of Spain)vote will always go to the party offering the most bilingual guarantees?
That the white vote will always go the the party offering the most ... the most what, exactly?
We're Americans, and intelligent people know that freedom transcends race -- it always has, and it always will. It's why the faces at the tea parties are of all hues.
If I was a black person, I think I might be a little insulted at your pronouncement as to where my vote was doomed forever to go.
I think that the biggest strength of the limited government conservative movement is that its very principle of rejecting an entitlement ethic makes race and ethnicity moot. That can be a powerful uniting force for conservatism; the trick is to do it and gather under the Repubican banner -- to take it over.
Pandering to groups defined on ethnic lines is betrayal when it happens in the Republican party. I want a Republican party that proudly and colorblindly panders to individual free self-determining Americans (as Rush pointed out, the smallest minority is a single person) by promising limited government interference and taxation and upholding inalienable rights as endowed by our Creator, as in our Constitution
They can feel free to be insulted. From what I’ve seen, they are after freebies, not freedom. A party that appeals to them will never appeal to me.