Posted on 10/01/2010 11:18:34 AM PDT by mojito
Being a former member of the Republican party, I don’t often indulge my occasional desire to offer the GOP messaging advice. But every time I hear Barack Obama say something like this . . .
It took time to free the slaves. It took time for women to get the vote.
. . . I wish the Republicans would response with an ad that says: “Yes, it took time to free the slaves. Time and a Republican president. One who had the courage of his convictions.”
As for women’s suffrage, the debate about the relative timing and importance of enfranchising women versus enfranchising blacks took place almost entirely within the Republican party. You know the famous episode in which Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting? The evidence against her was a note she sent to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, informing her that she had “positively voted the Republican ticket — straight.” Take that, Rahm.
Frederick Douglass should be as much the face of the Republican party as Reagan and Goldwater.
If the GOP had any brains (I know, I know!) it would spend a fair amount of money reminding the world: This is what a radical Republican looks like:
Response? How about respond? NRO should spring for a proofreader.
The change in voting patterns by women is, IMHO, largely attributable to the fact that a much greater # of women depend on government for their sustenance than ever before. Lower marriage rates and the welfare state account for a lot of this.
Hear that you single guys? Go marry a smelly commie chick. Do it for your country!! :)
White women still vote Republican.
The female vote was traditionally mostly republican, while the Catholic vote was never republican (except for 1956).
Since 1964, the white female vote, is still more republican than the white Catholic vote.
52% of voting Catholics voted for Bush in 2004. Against the minimally Catholic Kerry.
A greater percentage of practicing Catholics vote Republican.
I was talking of the period before 1964, when the female vote changed.
Catholics have voted republican 6 times in our history, four of those to reelect an incumbent, and a fifth was the first election for Reagan’s veep.
Catholics voted against Bush in 2000 for instance, but then gave him 52% for his reelection, (Protestant Hispanics gave him 56% of their vote that year), and then the Catholic vote went back to the Democrats for Obama with 54% in 2008. The Catholic vote is not as single party as it used to be, but it has a long way to go, and will probably never leave the democrat party.
The Protestant vote went Democrat in 1932, 1936, and 1964.
The reason it took years to free the slaves was that we had to fight the democrats to get it done.
No, I am sure that it was the legalization of abortion.
Interesting...
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