Posted on 09/22/2006 12:18:44 PM PDT by JZelle
BALTIMORE -- Prominent black Democrats yesterday bucked their party to support Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele -- the Republican nominee in Maryland's U.S. Senate race. "Like so many people who have come out today, I'm sick and tired of being taken for granted by the Democratic Party," said William H. "Billy" Murphy Jr., a Baltimore civil rights lawyer who hosted the "Steele Democrats" event at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center.
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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.
Robert Byrd, former senate majority leader, former Kleagle of the KKK, Sitting Democrat Senator from West Virginia.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Agreed, and I see your point about "bidding low".
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.
Voting Democratic is not rational. It's an addiction.
It's about time Black leaders recognized the fact that the Democrats have been taking the Black vote for granted for years.
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.
Even if they did recognize it, why would they care?
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