[buzzyboop]

The GOP is the party with the "big tent", not the Dims.

[starvingstudent]

Absolutely, we want to make the pie bigger, not cut more slices out of a small one.

[MattinNJ]

I was damn impressed by the Maryland's Lt. Gov. Steele speech (caught it on C-span-Fox is unwatchable lately). I would put it above Rudy's and below Arnold's.

[misterrob]

If you are a black man (like one should have to qualify that) and want to get ahead in ths world then you should vote republican. The pro-business, pro-family and tough on crime agenda we have is what works. The liberal platform of welfare, anti-wealth, apologizing for criminal behavior and lack of accountability is what keeps someone down. And, the myths about racism don't hold here either. A white man's condescending beliefs that you need to be treated special just to make it in life is the worse form of racism in existance today.

Want to empower a group? Make them responsible for their actions, even the playing field and provide an environment where hard work and determination pay off.

[Southack]

Republicans freed the slaves; Democrats went to war to stop 'em.

Republicans founded the NRA; Democrats passed the first gun control laws in the South to *prohibit* Blacks from owning firearms.

Jim Crow laws; all passed by Democrats.

Bull Conner, George Wallace, and the highway patrolmen who beat Blacks on the Edmund Petus Bridge in Alabama: all Democrats.

Republicans introduced and passed in the House and Senate the 1965 Civil Rights Act; Democrats filibustered against it.

Republicans appointed Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice; Democrats waged war against him.

Republicans appointed Powell, Powell, Paige, and Rice to top-level federal positions; Democrats can't even put two Blacks onto Senator Kerry's campaign staff (even Donna Brazille is left out in the cold in favor of lily-White shrum).

Democrats let lily-White Pelosi steal Black Harold ford's House Minority Leadership role.

Democrats let lily-White MacAuliffe steal Maynard Jackson's DNC leadership role.

Republicans favor faith-based charities; Democrats oppose them.

Republicans favor private scholarships for inner city minority youths; Democrats oppose them.

Blacks and Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-life; Democrats are officially pro-abortion.

As far as I can tell, the lone "issue" on which most Blacks and Republicans disagree is on Affirmative Action.

Frankly, that one point of contention is not enough to keep Blacks from choosing to become Republicans if we Republicans do a better job of selling our other positive issues.

5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

[WHBates]

"The Bush administration has declared war on affirmative action and Bush sees no problem with appointing federal judges that have defended cross burners and questioned voting rights."

Who would that be? (LOL, just rhetorical)

[ApesForEvolution]

BTTT

[Pyro7480]

I live in the DC Metro area (on the Virginia side), and as I was walking down to the Metro station the other day, the was black woman with a Bush-Cheney t-shirt on. I was excited to see her, and I chatted with her about Rudy and McCain's speech. She's a brave soul!

[thingumbob]

God Bless em and Welcome. May they go forth and multiple like compound interest!

[sasafras]

I agree. Once Blacks and Hispanic realize that the Dems do not stand for their values and actually love to see them continue to struggle they will come in huge numbers to the republicans. The democrats keep their power by confusing minorities that they are being put down by "da man" and therefore must vote demoncrat to get changes. But nothing ever changes becuase if it did then the dems wouldnt have anything to run on. If Blacks and Hispanics want real change with better schools, less taxes, overall more freedom and self worth they will start to vote conservative. I wish conservatives would do a better job of presenting this.

[Arkinsaw]

The day of the monolithic bloc is coming to an end. The Democrats have a segregated party, they are made up two parts. Those black Republicans are part of one party.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I heard boxing promoter Don King interviewed by Mike Barnicle at the RNC this morning. He was on fire! He says since the MSM wouldn't be covering him or his message, he has been going around the country, taking it to the streets telling black folks from all over to essentially "Wake up!".

He says the Democrat party has failed them miserably over the past 40 years and it is George W. Bush and the Republican party who is trying to educate their children, trying to remove the programs which make them a slave to government, trying to get them decent training and jobs...etc...etc.

It was quite a scene.

[LadyPilgrim]

I said way back some time ago............
There are minorities coming over to our side every day.

Looking at the convention schedule and the convention floor,
you can see "red, yellow, black, and white"!

We are THE diverse political party!

AND WE ARE AMERICA!!!

[Aetius]

This type of out-reach is of course a good thing, and should continue. But it should not come at the cost of certain principles, like for example Bush's embracing of racial preferences.

He said it himself at that meeting with minority journalists a few weeks back when he said that if race neutral admissions policies fail to adequately diversify the student body, then race ought to be a factor. That is of course, racial preferences, and it is not only opposed by most Republicans, but by most Americans in general.

That is why that quote about Bush declaring war on affirmative action is absurd. Bush speaks only of opposing quotas, which is easy. But he accepts the left-wing, created out of nowhere notion that diversity is a compelling state interest; so much so that it justifies discrimination against white Americans.

Its a good thing that Kerry is such an out of touch, elitist, far, far leftwinger, and that the prospect of him being President scares me so much to make me vote against him, because its things like Bush's betrayal on racial preferences that makes me not want to vote for him.

[hispanarepublicana]

I must say, I've been very surprised at the growing number of Hispanic Republicans that I've met in recent months. It's growing almost exponentially.

[mhking]

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[sharktrager]

Only until they hit about 21. At that point most of us stop growing, except maybe in circumference.

And then, about 60, they start shrinking, but their cars get bigger.

[Ligeia]

I had the honor of helping to elect a black republican delegate from my congressional district!

[Cacique]

L8R