[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!

[mhking]

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[traviskicks]

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.
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Yes! That's what we need, a headline grabber. Private SS accounts, School Choice, Conservative Social Values, Elimination of means tested Social Spending - that is a Contract worth fighting for.

[sasafras]

Blacks will never leave the liberal plantation. On this plantation they get the slop fed to them by their liberal slaveowners who feed them daily with race baiting propaganda, and freebies like affirmative action and welfare. I would love to be wrong and watch blacks become free thinkers but if blacks by in large cant support the ideals of their faith (abortion and homosexuality is wrong) why does anyone think they will change their party affiliation. Republicans should not pander to blacks any longer (or any other group) - stand for truth and freedom and allow others to join.

[Sloth]

Aren't the 11% or 16% figures on black support from those same discredited exit polls that told us Kerry was winning? I don't doubt Bush's support has risen a good deal among blacks, I just think the source of the numbers is probably no good.

[SuziQ]

"I am frightened by what is happening," said Rep. Major R. Owens,... "Our party is in grave danger. This Republican movement is going to expand exponentially unless we do something."

Be afraid, Rep. Owens, be VERY afraid.

[Dan from Michigan]

I support this effort, but has to be going on NOW - not every two years.