No Political Future for an All-White G.O.P

Townhall.com ^ | May 5, 2010 | Michael Medved

[The Toll]

How is my problem if minorities are politically stupid? I can’t change over to the stupid side.

[Freddd]

I’m starting to think the plan is to have no whites in any office...

[Hostage]

I disagree. I don’t believe the typical black voter has any bond in remembrance of LBJ. What they do have is a sense that they can command a better price for their votes from the democrats. They sell to the highest bidder.

The democrats are the party of panderers or political panhandlers. The urban black enclaves understand this.

[Jewbacca]

It’s apparent non-whites are racists.

[marstegreg]

Didn’t the 14th ammendment make them equal under the Constitution? (Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong)

[ecomcon]

There shouldn’t be any such thing as a “congressional black caucus” or “hispanic caucus”. It’s racist on the face of it.

[AuH2ORepublican]

That’s not true; Congressman Watts refused to join, saying that if there wasn’t a Congressional White Caucus there shouldn’t be a Congressional Black Caucus.

Hispanic Republicans in Congress used to belong to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, but they all quit a few years ago because of the group’s liberal agenda and formed the Congressional Hispanic Conference for Republicans.

[BunnySlippers]

It is true, however.

[apillar]

I think a point a lot of these analyst are missing is the assumption that whites will always vote in the same ways they are today. As the white population drops from a firm majority to the largest of several minorities, I think whites will start doing what every other minority group has done and vote for the party they feel best represents their race. It may already be happening, 50 years ago white voters were almost evenly split between the two parties. Now whites routinely vote republican by a 10 or 12 point margin. As the democrat party becomes more a black/hispanic party due to the large increases in both populations, white democrats, even the very liberal, are going to be less welcome in the party. So I don't think it's out of the question to assume that 75% or 80% of whites will vote Republican 30 years from now. I honestly believe that although the racial makeup will be vastly different, elections in 30 years will look pretty much the same as elections today.

[ChiMark]

Medved veers into strange territory as proclaimed conservative.
The Republican party used to be the party of the Blacks until the democrats pushed the racial agenda beginning with Roosevelt.

The party of entitlement has captured the black vote and how does Medved propose to change that?

[Jedidah]

That is both insulting and ridiculous.

Medved is a thinker, and you certainly don’t have to agree with him on all points, but he is right here.

A head-in-the-sand approach won’t win elections. Knowing the electorate and its demographics may not, either, but it will go a long way.

Our biggest challenge is to overcome stereotypical thinking — both our own and that of ethnic voters who have backed Democrats out of tradition rather than ideology.

Most hispanic families are both socially and politically conservative on most issues, but they’ve been taught to vote for Democrats. That’s true, too, of many blacks. Asians are hard-working and business-oriented, perfect Republican voters.

Now is a golden opportunity, given the thugs in the current administration, to educate voters of all stripes about what is good for our country.

But you can’t educate anyone with your fingers in your ears and your mouth uttering insults.

Give it some thought.

[Kaslin]

Don't forget Star Parker

Who is also running for Congress

Star Parker Why I'm Running For Congress

[nathanbedford]

Time once more for the maxim: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

[Jedidah]

Yep.

But not all blacks are in those “urban black enclaves,” and that is important.

Once good conservative blacks start winning higher office, hopefully this fall, they’re likely to draw away some of those inner city black voters just because of race.

[Grunthor]

“Are you familiar with this man and his writings?”

Quite. I did not say that I disagree with EVERYTHING he stands for, just that he is too far to the left for my tastes. and that of most conservatives that I know.

[Grunthor]

“I didn’t know Michael Medved is running for office”

You have to run for office to be a liberal Republican?

[Kaslin]

What do you mean I don’t get it? I didn’t write the editorial. He is only giving his opinion to which he is entitled. Just as you are. You are not going to tell me what articles I can post or not and btw, I am not a van of Medved. I don’t even listen to him and I have no idea on what station he is on in my area

[Le Chien Rouge]

Never do we see an article about the 96% voters for Obama within the black community yet the GOP gets scolded for being supposedly too ‘lily white’.

Enough of this Sh!te!!!

Voting patterns have evolved into collectivism vs conservationism.

[stylin19a]

but if McCain had merely won the same percentage as Bush four years before, he would have drawn 1.2 million more black votes for the GOP ticket

depends on where these 1.2 million are dispesed.

[schu]

White vs black, much like the Demo vs Repub or Left vs Right or Liberal vs Conservative is a false choice and a lousy argument.

The real discussion is anarchy (no government) vs tyranny (too much government). The discussion is how much government is enough to insure and enable the prosperity and freedom of the citizens. The Founders knew this all too well and designed a system to preclude anarchy while preventing tyranny. We have moved away from this of course and see where we are now.

The problem is a tyrannical central/federal government. Black or white, left or right, we will all be caught in the huge structural problems that an out of control Federal government (tyranny) demands. Default, war, corruption, and more are heading are way.

It is all so predictable.

schu