Black Democrats pledge backing to Steele

Washington Times ^ | 9-22-06 | S.A. Miller

[Yardstick]

So you think white racists stayed with the Democrat party -- the party of affirmative action, welfare, and Jesse Jackson?

That seems like a bit of a stretch.

[Betty Jane]

The Dems would reply that the racist KKK Democrats are now Republicans. Do you have a counterargument for that?

Robert Byrd, former senate majority leader, former Kleagle of the KKK, Sitting Democrat Senator from West Virginia.

[Yardstick]

So Robert Byrd proves that most racist KKK types favor the Democrat party, the party of racial quotas, welfare, and Al Sharpton?

Is this what you're saying?

[zbigreddogz]

Interesting. It is kinda weird that he donated to Cardin before the primary, and is now supporting Steele. Mfume I could understand, but Cardin?

I know he donated to both Cardin and Mfume, and I know especially with Lawyer associations and stuff like that, that it is expected to donate a lot, but still, I find it a little weird.

[radiohead]

are voting for Steele because he is the better candidate - and not because he is the black candidate.

I agree, but I will take this as a first step. As I've said here before, most of the blacks I know are conservatives - former military, 2 parent, church going, pro-life. They just need some help pulling that Republican lever for the first time. If Steele is that 'help,' then fine.

I know how it feels. I did it for GWB.

[aligncare]

...I know how it feels. I did it for GWB

I'll never forget the first time I heard Rush on the radio...He was speaking "conservative", something I'd never heard before (This was 1988, I had heard the name William F. Buckley, but didn't have a clue what he stood for).

Well, it took me years before I would acknowledge "out loud" that I was conservative. Such was the stigma that the Left had created and fostered in those years.

Now I shout it from the roof top.

[aligncare]

So you think white racists stayed with the Democrat party -- the party of affirmative action, welfare, and Jesse Jackson?

Yes. That's why the dems (they are after all just a coalition of disparate groups) are in such a sweat over Rush, Fox News, and conservative bloggers. The truth of the democrat agenda is getting out, and their ranks are shrinking proportionately among black voters...more time and more truth is all it will take to send the democrat party to its grave.

[Yardstick]

There's nothing about the Democrats' racial politics that isn't well known to just about everyone. They've locked up the black vote by appealing to blacks' sense of victimhood, by emphasizing white guilt, and by offering institutional racial coddling of blacks as the remedy. I agree that this is a kind of racism -- "the soft bigotry of low expectations" captures it pretty nicely. But it's definitely not the kind of racism that the KKK types like (can you imagine the Klan being in favor of affirmative action?). This is why I think it's a little far fetched to argue that the South's true white racists stayed with the Democrat party. It's tempting to argue that this is the case -- it would be such a delicious irony if it were true -- but the facts just don't support it IMO.

[radiohead]

Now I shout it from the roof top

Amen.

btw - when I first started listening to Rush, I was surprised at the rock and roll bumper music. I honestly believed that conservatives didn't listen to rock.

[Fraxinus]

can you imagine the Klan being in favor of affirmative action?

The Klan does favor affirmative action, they just think that it favors the wrong people.

This is why I think it's a little far fetched to argue that the South's true white racists stayed with the Democrat party.

This is where I say that Republicans bid extremely low for their votes. The racists left the Democrats because they became pro-black, not because the Republicans favored the policies that the racists did.

[Yardstick]

The racists left the Democrats because they became pro-black, not because the Republicans favored the policies that the racists did.

Agreed, and I see your point about "bidding low".

[incredulous joe]

Agreed. But I'm afraid it may work out the other way around - blacks may turn out to vote FOR O'Malley and against Ehrlich. What that does to Steele, who can say? many blacks that I know really like and admire Steele, even though they may not say so very loudly. Actually, if you meet the guy he would be very hard NOT to like.

Not sure what's up with Ehrlich in the polls and I don't know where these numbers are coming from, but I'm kind of like "who in the hell could get juiced to vote for O'Malley!" I mean, look what the guy's done for Baltimore city?

The pollsters love tp say how Dems in Maryland outnumber Republicans 2 to 1, and while I don't dispute that I would state that among Indies conservatives outnumber liberals 4 to 1, myself included.

Uggh! Say it ain't so. We can't go back to the old Dem daze! I can't afford it. I'll have to move to West Virginny.

[California Patriot]

Voting Democratic is not rational. It's an addiction.

[xtinct]

It's about time Black leaders recognized the fact that the Democrats have been taking the Black vote for granted for years.

[incredulous joe]

Well, I'm thinking Steele can break through here. I'm much less certain about Governor Bob.

Who knows? Mayor Martin is primed and overdue to put his big, fat foot in it.

[California Patriot]

Even if they did recognize it, why would they care?