How about we just dump the frickin' racial politics and put the best person for the job into the position. What a concept: Imagine, hiring someone because they are competent not because they are of a particular race or ethnicity!
Well the time to do that was when Steele was up for Chairman but no one wanted to have that. Everyone wanted to talk about Abraham Lincoln and about how having a black guy to rebut Obama would be such a good thing.
Well, now you’ve gone down the road of racial politics. You have to follow up on that road and that road says this. We’re never going to get the black vote. The election of Obama ensures that.
We might be able to get the Hispanic vote and Hispanics have shown in various opinion surveys that they think like white voters and will probably be considered white in their own right in a few generations.
Consider that after the Dems nominated Al Smith that there was a mass defection of Catholic Republicans to the Democrats and that Catholics stayed predominantly Democratic until the age of Reagan. You may say ethnic politics has no place but you’re a fool if you think it isn’t present in our own party.
All Cubans in South Florida are Republican. It’s for two reasons. The first was that the Southern Democrats that ran Florida at the time had no desire to accomodate a Spanish speaking population. The other was that Kennedy muffed the Bay of Pigs. Republicans reached out to them on racial appeals they bit. Without them, Florida would have never had Republican control. Marco Rubio is a product of that system.