You wrote: "The GOP writes off the black vote 3 1/2 of every four years, and then complains when they don't win Detroit and Philly. Whatever the vote fraud in those cities, the machines won't be broken while we give the Democrats 90% of the black vote."
Response: No, we do not write off the black vote at all.
The Democrats do that for 3 1/2 years, then send a bunch of corrupt preachers out there like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to stir up hatred and bigotry in the black community.
Every major city in America has a black inner city, where the schools are basket cases and have been so for three generations and counting. And in every case, Democrats have solidly controlled the school boards. They Democrats have done NOTHING for the education and improvement of these schools.
Conversely, it's the Republicans who are pressing forward on school vouchers. Vouchers will help no-one better than inner city blacks, by opening up to them the possibility of changing schools, going into private and parochial schools. Democrats, who wrecked the schools there in the first place, relentlessly oppose vouchers everywhere.
Fact is, the Republicans have been reaching out to black voter's interests on a core issue affecting their lives: education, for 10 years now, the Democrats have been systematically and viciously opposing every single effort at education reform or vouchers.
And yet the argument is made that it's the REPUBLICANS who ignore the interests of the black inner cities, and therefore the DEMOCRATS, who "care" deserve the votes? The Democrats have been screwing the blacks when it comes to education for 50 years. The only people offering the black inner city any sort of ladder of hope to get out of the mess are the Republicans. The Democrats are fighting them tooth and nail, ensuring that the black inner city dwellers remained screwed and in bad schools. And the blacks vote 89% for the Democrats anyway.
This is simply stupid, blind, tribal voting patterns, and it is the blacks screwing themselves. If they woke up in the cities and voted for the interests of their kids, the Republicans would win the vote of every black parent.
This year, President Bush made a real effort to reach out to the black voters and deliver that message. He asked for their votes. Result? Not one damned bit of difference. No change. This is not because the GOP writes off the black vote. It is because the blacks write themselves off by refusing to break the voting habit for the Democrats who have done nothing but screw them.
This should be shouted to the Mountain Tops.