As a proud CONSERVATIVE who happens to be half black, I can say for a fact that you are NEVER going to get the Black vote. Black people have been raised to believe that Republicans are against Civil Rights, mostly since Barry Goldwater vs Johnson in 1964.
Michael Steele in my opinion has been making a fool of himself with his "hip hop" strategy. I hope someone tells him.
I remember supporting Steele for RNC Chair and people would bash him for being a RINO. I scoffed at their kookiness. Joke's on me.
Steele’s strategy of p!ssing off the Dittoheads while trying to woo the Hip-Hop crowd is most idiotic.
I can’t imagine such a tone being taken in an article about Obama’s style—which was always written about in tones of respect.
I think we’re making way too much of this. It’s mildly annoying at worst.
All we need to do is start passing out money.
INSANITY!!!
Good observation. Never quite connected the loss of the black vote to Goldwater, but he did vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act three months prior to the 1964 election.
And now with Obama, I do not think there is anything the GOP can do to win over the black vote. However, prior to Obama the Democrats were winning 92% of the black vote and Obama won 94%, not much a giant leap.
However, the GOP has to win over the Hispanic vote. If not the GOP is going to grow more and more irrelevant.
In 12 years Texas will be a majority Hispanic state and will fall to the Democrats in presidential elections. You can also add Florida to the list of new Democratic states let by the Hispanic vote.
Thus in 2020 or 2024 the Republicans will have to spot the Democrats the states of California, New York Illinois, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania before the first vote is counted.
The electoral math becomes very difficult at that point.
You know, I always thought it would be societal upheavals that killed off the Democrat and Republican Parties. Boy was I wrong. The GOP is going to suffer death by shooting itself in the foot too often.
Trying to bring in the "hip hop" vote would be tantamount to going after the pedophile and goat-sodomizer vote.
Got to be... nobody, not even a Republican, could be that damn fool stupid.
If we are trying to kill off the party,,,,, yes.
Sarah should run as an Indie/Constitutionalist. No need to further sully her name associating with the likes of the RINO party!
Next he’ll be wasting time and money going after hopeless pisspots like New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California. Somebody better slap some sense into Steele and point him towards the “swing” states that can tip the balance and away from the turds that long ago flushed themselves down the toilet forever.
; )
That being said, I hate "hip hop" culture like the plague that it is.
Then the GOP could try some MLM scams.
After about 15 seconds of listening to rap crap or hip slop I begin to have homicidal urges. I’ll just play it safe and stay in my swamp, with my guns and religion.
Ok Mikey. Does this mean you might FINALLY start to "get your thug on" when it comes to the dems????
If I ever do meet Mike in this life, I would LOVE to approach him, and if there was going to be a "handshake", I'd "start" to act like I was going to shake his hand, and at the last second "fist-bump" him instead and IMMEDIATELY wait for him to copy my next move:
If he acts confused, surprised or stunned, I'd simply tell him that is the SAME feeling I had when I read about his totally stupid "hip-hop strategy" for the first time.
Oh...one more thing Mikey....you're "new attitude" going to need a "new hat".....
It’s not hard. Simply run candidates who are conservative in principle and can articulate themselves. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they “speak well” or look good in front of a camera, though those things don’t hurt.
None of this will matter, folks.
If 0bama stays on course the Republicans will be hog-tied with a citizenry so in debt, so entreched in socialism that the conservative platform WILL BE IRRELEVANT.
If you’re confused about what they are doing—there’s your answer.
The option for freedom and capitalism, as we have known it, will be off the table.
We are being brought to our knees for a kind of “change” none of us can imagine right now.
There is no other explanation for this “self-sabotage”.
Prosperity CERTAINLY ISN’T their goal.
Once they lock-in this socialism it isn’t going away, sorry.
If you think socialist Social Security has staying power—consider National Health Care.
Do you think Republicans will ever be able to cut THAT program? Not on your life!
OR, the One-world government folks will be proven prophetic.
True socialism, global rule, or both—those are pretty much our choices if nothing stops this leftist onslaught.
It’s time to get radical or watch it rot.
Then Mr. Steele, ACT LIKE IT! Hip-Hop culture is not about principles, family, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. First reach out and lift up our fellow Americans who are in pursuit of happiness. Not those in pursuit of murder, drugs, random sex. You are not going to find conservatives or Republicans among them. Unfortunately we won't be able to persuade these folks or enough of them to make a voting difference. To stop this destruction of urban America we need to put conservative leaders into those communities to help the next generation.
Here is where the conservatives and patriots among us must stop and consider the matter seriously. The democrat party has created a whole block of constituencies with Inter-GENERATIONAL dependency. How'd they do that? And how do we break their cycle?
Think about it for a moment. Inter-generational dependency. What that means is the government dependent grandma, mother, and children have learned to live locked in the cycle of democratic poverty. They have learned to live on the government handouts inter-generationally. First grandma who maybe knew better and knew she had choices but instead became a democrat victim, she then taught her daughter to live like that, who is now teaching her children how to live within the system...they truly may not know how to get out of the democrat poverty system.
The schools have taught them they are victims of society. The victimology makes them inferior. The schools teach the collectivism, these particular kids need to know there is another way. It is simply not being taught to them.
We can break this cycle if we can get to the children. How can we get to the children without throwing more good money after bad? We need to knock down the socialist school doors. We, as concerned members of the society, need to stop being the church mouse, but become the mouse that roared. We need to get in there and teach them this is America and you have choices that lead to success.
Success is not college, college is just another stepping stone and not all who attend college are a success. We need to teach them, show them how to succeed by pursuing their own path to excellence.