GOP Sees Future In Black Churches (The Crumbling Of The Liberal Plantation Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 02/01/05 | Tom Hamburger And Peter Wallsten

[goldstategop]

But by courting conservative blacks in battleground states — reaching out through programs such as the president's faith-based initiative — GOP organizers believe they made the difference that secured Bush's victory in 2004. In Ohio, for instance, a concerted effort increased black support for Bush from 9% in 2000 to 16% in 2004, providing a cushion that allowed the president to win the pivotal state outright on election night. The Black Contract With America will be unveiled by Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., a registered Democrat from suburban Washington who backed Bush in 2004 after voting against him four years earlier. He was drawn, he said, to the GOP's social conservatism that he thought reflected the true values of black churches.

[goldstategop]

Black Churches have been the least noticed new player in the GOP. Most blacks are unlikely to desert the Liberal Plantation any time soon, but enough are reconsidering so that its crumbling at the edges. Eve a 5% rise in black support for the Republican Party would paralyze the Democrats. It made the difference in Florida and Ohio. Keep hope alive! (laughing)

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[thoughtomator]

A special thanks to militant homosexuals and their supporters!

[PGalt]

Keep hope alive!

Up with hope, down with dope!

[Jaysun]

"But by courting conservative blacks in battleground states"

Not a bad plan. If you go into a black church, be prepared to stay for a while.

[chasio649]

truth bump!

[goldstategop]

President Bush got 14% of the black vote in FL and 16% in OH. A better showing in those key states than his national 11% average.

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[Nitro]

Republicans invite black people along for the ride...

demonrats tell black people to stay home and cash small checks!!

I'll ask again, who is "racist?"

[Southack]

The great *switch* is coming. Republicans have the most pro-Black platform (e.g. privatizing Social Security so that Blacks, who average living only to Age 61, can pass on to their heirs their SS money, which without Privatization wouldn't start paying out until age 65).

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.

The bumper stickers alone that I'm seeing here in Alabama show that a shift is coming.

[Coldwater Creek]

Being from the Memphis area, I am thrilled that Harold Ford Jr. lost to Pelosi.. Jr. is a whole lot slicker.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Does this mean the NAACP won't be prosecuted for refusing to turn over documents to the IRS?

[samtheman]

Republican officials, such as outgoing party chairman Ed Gillespie, have said they think the percentage could rise to 30 in the next presidential election — a prediction that even some GOP strategists called overly optimistic.

I share that optimism. Ideas can spread quickly.

[EGPWS]

In Ohio, for instance, a concerted effort increased black support for Bush from 9% in 2000 to 16% in 2004, providing a cushion that allowed the president to win the pivotal state outright on election night.

Our brothers are starting to see it.

[goldstategop]

If the next GOP presidential candidate can get to 20% - the Democrats won't have a prayer in November 2008.

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[EGPWS]

I'll ask again, who is "racist?"

As a political entity, alas, again I will answer as I have in the past, the progressive party.

[West Coast Conservative]

Put Sec. Rice on the ticket in 2008. That would greatly undermine the Dems' two solid constituencies: women and Blacks.

[Talking_Mouse]

Bishop Jackson is both a very smart man (MBA from Harvard) and a wonderful pastor. I am quite glad he is working on the current contract.

[Nitro]

You will start that way and then you will learn.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

You absolutely correct. If GW Bush and the Pubbies can win another 9% of the Black vote, the Democrat Party will be destroyed in 2006. I actually believe we can rach about 25% of the Black vote by 2008. Lots happening in the Black community that favors the GOP!!!

[samtheman]

The Republicans will continue to pick up votes in the black community and the hispanic community. The only question is the size of the gain.

[xzins]

Blacks and Republicans support school vouchers....democrats oppose them.

The party of Lincoln has always been the party that supported black americans.