Posted on 12/06/2007 7:39:57 AM PST by concretebob
Representing 38% of all voters, white men represent the second largest block in the American electorate, after white females. It is these 97 million white males to whom the Republican Party owes it electoral success in five out of the last seven presidential campaigns. The reason is simple: White males have abandoned the Democratic Party in droves. While the liberal media consistently depict the gender gap as a Republican liability, in fact, the gap has long worked to the advantage of the G.O.P. This media misportrayal is the subject of David Paul Kuhn’s recent book, The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma.
For years, the Democratic Party was stitched together by an unlikely amalgam of Catholics, blue-collar workers, and southerners. But in 1968 the Party imposed racial and sex quotas on its national convention delegations. It took only four years for the new-found coalition of feminists, Blacks, and ideological radicals to displace the union bosses and party hacks.
In the 1972 election the Dems pinned their presidential hopes on anti-war candidate George McGovern. But he was soon caricatured as the “candidate of the three As: acid, abortion, and amnesty.” Needless to say, Richard Nixon won in a historic landslide.
In 1976 Jimmy Carter campaigned on the basis of his military experience, religious faith, and business acumen. But on Inauguration Day the newly-elected Leader of the Free World nearly groveled in front of his audience: “your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.”
Seen as timid and ineffective, he was routed from office four years later by the ebullient Ronald Reagan, the former cowboy actor.
In 1984 the Democrats fielded Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. By then working-class men viewed the Dems as effete mother hens. No surprise, Reagan won 525 electoral votes to Mondale’s 13.
The most hilarious moment of the 1988 campaign belonged to Michael Dukakis – that’s the day he donned a combat helmet and popped his head from the turret of an M-1 battle tank. And when a debate question failed to evoke even a hint of outrage about his wife Kitty being raped, his defeat was assured.
These Democratic candidates failed to exemplify the virtues of chivalry, strength, and grit. But it was president Bill Clinton who, embracing the radical feminist agenda, openly stiffed the male electorate.
During the first two years of his hen-pecked presidency, Bill handed over domestic policy to wife Hillary. In short order she installed Donna Shalala at Health and Human Services, Norma Cantu at the Department of Education, and Janet Reno at Justice. Soon thousands of poor fathers were being jailed for non-payment of child support, college men found their athletic teams disbanded, and the Violence Against Women Act was signed into law.
And while middle-class White Men were struggling to cope by stagflation and the extinction of millions of blue-collar jobs, the liberal-left lampooned them as hopelessly out of step with the gender liberation crusade.
No surprise that in the 1994 elections the “angry white male” came out of the woodwork and handed control of both houses of Congress to the Republicans. Steven Stark would later write in the Atlantic that “Bill Clinton’s Administration has, fairly or not, come to symbolize an attack on men and masculinity as ‘problems’ to be overcome.”
When New Age Sensitive Guy Al Gore launched his campaign, it didn’t help that he had to hire feminist Naomi Wolf to advise him how to become a “Beta male.” After Gore came out against gun ownership, George Bush won the white male vote by an astonishing 27% margin.
Author Kuhn reveals the outcome of elections hinges on whether the candidate projects an inward strength of character, conveys a rugged sense of self-sufficiency, and is strong on national security. With the Democrats widely viewed as the “mommy party,” the Republicans have a decided edge in this department.
And referring to an antipathy that modern liberals still refuse to acknowledge, Kuhn notes, “For some 40 years, phases like ‘the Man,’ ‘male chauvinist pig,’ ‘white male privilege,’ ‘dead white males,’ ‘angry white male,’ and the actions behind them have led to an entire vocabulary of blaming white men for the nation’s worst ills.”
Sizing up the current crop of Democratic candidates, Kuhn sees little hope. “The irony of the 2008 election is that Democrats have candidates who can win, but the party remains stuck in its passions rather than its pragmatism,” Kuhn concedes.
So as the 2008 presidential campaign comes into focus, will the Democrats stage an abrupt about-face and embrace the lessons of the past? Or will the Republicans continue to dominate in presidential politics?
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I don't feel ignored by the Democratic party, I feel targeted!
Perhaps but they have been ignoring them for decades now.
LLS
Yah!
What HE said!
Go GUYS!
White males are hated by liberals in this countrybecause they smoke, go to church, eat red meat, drive SUVs, SUVs with yellow ribbons on them and stand up and uncover during the national anthem. No wonder liberals hate them.
Not only was that adminstration anti-male, it was populated with angry feminist lesbians.
Looney menopausal clucks.
The GOP will not benefit if Huckabee is its nominee - he’s the same spineless wimp as Jimmy Carter.
A very shallow analysis of the failures of the Democratic party.
Neither party has been willing to address the fact that child support can exceed 100% of a persons income !
At least the IRS lowers the tax burden (usually) on people who’s income declines. Not so for child support. First the person has to go through the trouble and expense of sue for relief. Second they have to convince the judge they are worthy of relief. The judge has (and often uses) the authority to leave child support orders unchanged!
Income can be ‘imputed’ based on earning potential.
While the maximum amount of a persons income that can be (legally) garnished is 50%; judges routinely exceed this mark.
These excessive orders then cause arrears to build up.
When the arrears reach $5K, the person becomes a fugitive and a felon.
Small wonder then that despite automatic payments of child support from a persons paycheck that the accumulated ‘arrears’ continues to explode. Currently $1billion is ‘owed’ in just Louisiana alone.
The only question is where it will end?
In judicial dictatorship or civil war!
No, rats = Perpetual PMS Party.
Democraps go after the white male vote?....Good one! To them, white males are responsible for everything from groping to global warming...never happen!
“I don’t feel ignored by the Democratic party, I feel targeted!”
Exactly right.
The problem is, a large chunk of white males have no b*lls. Society has emasculated them, and they’ve become life long liberals. These eunuchs believe that they are the cause of the country’s and the world’s problems, and they pretty much hate themselves.
I know too many white male libs, and have nothing but contempt for most of them.
We have an uphill battle.
There is no place for a America gun loving person like you. Now don’t you feel bad. /sarcasm
The biggest reason I left the Democrats.
They are nothing more than racist and sexist panderers.
The uniononians drank the JonesJuice a long time ago.
THAT'S what makes you THE PROBLEM.
By doing/being these things, you perpetuate the traditional society of America, and make no mistake, this is what they want to destroy.
“Maybe some day they will wakeup and realize what a bunch of idiots they have been.”
Never. They could be standing in a pile of smoldering rubble, created by their actions, and would never admit to error.
One constant in libs is their inability to honestly appraise themselves or their actions.
Just look at the crap they try to sell: All cultures are equal, we’re all winners, there’s no such thing as a bad person... and on and on.
Here’s reality:
There are bad, and inferior cultures. islam comes to mind.
We are not all winners. Life has many examples of losers.
There are bad people. Calling Charles Manson....
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