Did ya really think it would be different?
“thoughtful, conservative blacks like Armstrong Williams and JC Watts saying they might vote for him?”
Well, in that case they obviously aren’t either thoughtful or conservative.
Pretty pathetic. Real conservatives have principles.
So, I suppose it is OK for me to say I am voting for the white candidate because I am loyal to the white folk?
None of this gives one much hope.
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Armstrong explains his position by saying, ‘’I don’t necessarily like his [Barack’s] policies; I don’t like much of what he advocates, but for the first time in my life, history thrusts me to really seriously think about it.’’ JC Watts, former Republican congressman from Oklahoma,
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Oh I am very sad about this.
A racist is a person who wouldn’t vote for someone who is not their race.
A racist is a person would ONLY vote for a person who is their race.
Does anyone want to read a statement made by a black conservative running for Congress that slaps Obama down?!?
Well here ya go: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/republican-lt-col-allen-west-thanks.html
Col. Allen West is the real deal, and he isn’t what this article describes!!!!
You can bet J.C. Watts does not about Oprah’s Obams’s socialistm. But blackness trumps that for him, even though he was elected by whites!
Blacks play ethnic politics to the hilt and they are absolutely within their rights to do so, but if whites voted for Hillary or McCain in those percentages they would to, but there would be hell to pay in the media.
If JC Watts and Armstrong Williams want to vote for him knowing how far left he is it shows they were never Conservatives at all but simply used it as an angle.
People who believe the “Post Racial” song and dance are the ones who believe that Obama did not know of Rev. Wrights hateful comments while being a member of his church for 20years.
Obama is a Pied Piper leading a lot lemmings to the river.
J.C Watts comments did not set well with me.
I have met and spoken with Watts and have always considered him a strong Christian.
I must therefore reconsider some of my rather strong support for J.C as a potential Vice Presidential candidate.
I believe those folks in Zimbabwe fell for this voting for same skin color crap and you can see where it has gotten a country once known as the bread basket of Africa.
Now Zimbabwe is known as nothing more than a third world country with it’s folks starving and hand out to the world.
A country where dissent and or speaking words not politically correct can land you in prison or worse in a mass grave.
J.C. I am a self professed Christian believing in Jesus Christ and I do not think that Jesus would APPROVE OF ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS ABORTION AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE.
Just the lowly opinion of a red state wannabe.
And is voting for someone because of their race "less racist" than voting against that person because of their race? (Yes, I know that I'm misusing the term "racist," but that's how it's currently being used in political discourse today: I realize that most people who use the word "racist" don't actually understand the meaning.)
Mark
This makes me sad...especially after we have spent decades to convince a society that color of skin does not matter. Apparently it does matter.
..the worm turns.
If he does this, all his previous so called grounded ideas was just hot air.
Same goes for JC.
Should be a huge wake-up call (but it won't) that Alan Keyes is vilified/demonized/marginalized....
..and Obama gets pass after pass after pass....
..tick tick..that's me waiting for 'the usual suspects' to show up here and ridicule/vilify/marginalize Alan Keyes yet again.
The point about Amb. Keyes is an excellent one. Where were his supporters outside of white conservatives -- on the other hand I remember the Clarance Thomas hearings. There were several young black supporters there testifying -- as I recall it was very late at night here on the west coast and it was three hours later in Washington, D. C.
There was hardly anyone else left in the hearing room. I remember the MSM employees' comments. "Wow, these people are really smart." "Yes, they make great points, where did they come from?"
So, with decades and decades of exposure to the MSM I know that you cannot depend upon 'em and this was a perfect example of how little they know.
(This is not a comment about the posted article.)
stupid is as stupid does
Watts said that his remark about Obama being more dedicated to issues of poverty and urban policy was NOT an endorsement or an indication that he would vote for him, it was just a statement of what he expected from the first black President, considering that white Dems have made promises galore over the years and not delivered. His complaint was that in the same way the Dems take black voters for granted, Republicans take for granted that black voters are beyond their reach, and make only feeble efforts to reach out to them.
That's because Keyes, bless his heart, is a train wreck of a candidate. And he's unqualified; being an ambassador is the high-ranking position one can have in government without having ANY expertise whatsoever in ANY field.