GOP Makes 'Top Priority' Of Converting Black Voters

Washington Post ^ | December 25, 2003 | By Darryl Fears

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Democrats will get a big surprise when the GOP "invents" one or two black Senators, come 2005.

[org.whodat]

I thought the top priority was spending and giving the country to mexico.

[Phaedrus]

Bad idea.

[2banana]

Top Issues to Focus On:

School Choice
Support of the family (marriage is between a man and a woman)
The excess number of black abortions in relation to their percent of the population

[Vigilanteman]

Good suggestions. In general, the GOP idea to reach out to black voters as a Democrat-Lite party is flawed. However, reaching out to pro (school) choice voters who happen to be black is important.

[Terpfen]

"Over the past 40 years, black voters have been wedded to the Democratic Party, whose leaders embraced the civil rights movement against southern segregation."

Yeah, right.

[StilettoRaksha]

I agree.

[rdb3]

The blacks and Jews are natural socialists.

Did you know that we are "natural socialists," Mike? Thirty-two years of life and I didn't know that. How'd it escape me?

[Tom Bombadil]

Still, Democrats and some analysts said it is unlikely that Republicans can persuade African Americans

Let em take the "African American" vote for granted. GWB has been full of surprises for people who do those sorts of things.

[Common Tator]

From 1860 until 1960 nearly 9 out of 10 Blacks who could vote (those in the north) voted for Republicans.

Every segregationist was a Democrat.Orval Faubus, George Wallace, and STrom Thurman were Democrats. It was the Democratic Governor of Georgia who sold axe handles with which to hit blacks.

I remember when LBJ told Democrats he was going after Blacks much of the Demoratic party predicted he would have no success. It was Republians who freed blacks and it was Democrats who wanted them segregated.

The people who today say Bush can not succeed would have been certain that LBJ could not turn total Republican Blacks in to a Democratic monopoly. But that is exactly what LBJ did just 40 years ago.

[rdb3]

From 1860 until 1960 nearly 9 out of 10 Blacks who could vote (those in the north) voted for Republicans.

Very true. But I am still amazed to learn today that I, and all other black people, are "natural socialists."

Shocked and awed, I tell ya!

[InterceptPoint]

By the end of the convention, the future national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, had emerged as black conservative stars, and a concerted effort by Republicans "to invent new black leaders" -- as former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) once put it -- was well underway.

Well that's sure not how I remember it.

The Condoleezza Rice speech was ignored by all three of the alphabet networks and Fox, which I was mostly watching, showed it in the background while they were chit chatting about nothing very important. This speach was intended to introduce a major player on the Bush team to America and it failed to do so because coverage of it would have hurt the Dems. No doubt about it.

[Paul Ross]

Ping.

Keyes in Action

Photos Copyright 1998, 1999  Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.  All rights reserved.

	Oct. 31, 1998--Alan Keyes addresses Free Republic's March for Justice in Washington, DC.
	Oct. 31, 1998--Alan Keyes addresses Free Republic's March for Justice in Washington, DC. Keyes' supporters distributed some Keyes 2000 signs and collected signatures at the rally.
	Oct. 31, 1998--Alan Keyes addresses Free Republic's March for Justice in Washington, DC.   As with other speakers at the rally, Keyes tore into Clinton, describing him as "a president of the United States with so little regard for the Constitution and his high office that he undermines the moral authority and credibility that he needs as commander in chief...a president willing to go into and before a court of law and undermine the respect for oaths and integrity that is the very bedrock of our judicial process..."  "Bill Clinton is simply the symptom of that destruction of our moral life and culture that has gone on for decades," Keyes said.
	Sept. 18-19, 1998--Keyes began his speech to the Christian Coalition's Road to Victory '98 by emphatically stating, "Bill Clinton is a liar."  On the subject of forgiveness, Keyes noted that in the Bible, God forgave David, but that David suffered severely for his sin. Keyes then turned to abortion. "The partial-birth abortion vote today--the vote of the Senate not to override his veto--is a sordid scandal as great as the scandal in the White House," he stated. Toward the close, Keyes challenged the audience to "...work for leaders who stand for principle, and vote for leaders who stand for principle." "No more excuses. No more expediency. No more calculation," he declared.
	Sept. 18-19, 1998--Keyes' booth at the Christian Coalition's Road to Victory '98.
	June 12, 1998--Cedar Rapids. Alan Keyes addresses the Iowa GOP's First in the Nation Gala. Referring to the unalienable rights delineated in the Declaration of Independence, Keyes declared: "It is a statement about God. And it's time we stopped being ashamed of speaking his name from public platforms in America. If God almighty is the source of our rights, if his authority is what gives us the right to lay claim to our liberty, then it is quite clear that an issue like abortion is not just a political hot potato, it's not just a question for situational ethics, it's not a question you decide by analyzing the mother's circumstances and the child's state of development. It is a question that was decided for us when this nation began."
	June 12, 1998--Cedar Rapids.  Alan Keyes heads to a rally at the Iowa GOP's First in the Nation Gala.  He drew a packed crowd.
	June 12, 1998--Cedar Rapids. Alan Keyes speaks at the media availability prior to the Iowa GOP's First in the Nation Gala. "Last time I ran in this state, I made the point that America was in a moral crisis and we needed to make it our top priority. That if we did not make it our top priority the Republic as we know it would be finished. I think every event of the last several years proves my point... There is no doubt about it. This nation's number one challenge is its moral crisis. We must deal with that crisis now as a top priority. I said it the last time; it will be my theme and message this time."
	Jan. 1998.  Alan Keyes speaks at the 25th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in No. Va.

 

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