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Tea Party Could Put Record Number of Black Conservatives in Office
New American ^ | Oct 29, 2010 | Raven Clabough

Posted on 10/30/2010 8:47:59 PM PDT by Islander7

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To: Islander7
The new republican majority may have more blacks than the entire audience of Jon Stewart's Reprehensible Sanctimony rally.
21 posted on 10/30/2010 9:41:08 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: Islander7

Btt


22 posted on 10/30/2010 9:48:19 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Islander7

There are currently 42 members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Does anyone know if any of them will not be re-elected? Is it possible that the new conservatives might out-number them? :-)


23 posted on 10/30/2010 9:53:27 PM PDT by MSSC6644 (Defeat Satan. Pray the Rosary)
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To: MSSC6644

Bill Marcy (R) is running neck and neck with Bennie Thompson in MS-02.

Hopefully, Thompson will go down. This district is rarely polled.


24 posted on 10/30/2010 10:02:38 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: MSSC6644

It looks like the only one that might be in trouble is Sanford Bishop of GA...I’d be surprised if the GOP elected 41 black conservatives....what’s their record (at any one time)? 2, 3, 4? (J.C. Watts, Gary Franks, rumors about Bob Barr having Negro blood, maybe one other?)


25 posted on 10/30/2010 10:03:03 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Islander7
Who cares about their race, gender, whatever. I just want to see a record number of conservatives put in office. Make that conservatives with backbone, willing to stand up to hussein obama and thwart him at every turn until we can throw his big-government fascist/socialist backside out on the street.
26 posted on 10/30/2010 10:09:27 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Washington DC, the downsizng begins Nov 2...)
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To: ThunderSleeps
Who cares about their race, gender, whatever.

We conservatives have been branded every sort of file label in the book for a generation. None of those labels are true, but to convince the opposition, there must be irrefutable proof.

Race / gender is not an issue for anyone on these boards, but it is for the democrats. Shoving their words down their throats is a delicious proposition for many of us.

Welcome to Free Republic.

27 posted on 10/30/2010 10:16:32 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Rembrandt

JC Watts was denied membership in the Black Caucus, if I remember correctly. By the way, I got a robocall from him today for Mary Fallin, GOP candidate for OK governor.


28 posted on 10/30/2010 10:41:28 PM PDT by Montanabound
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To: Islander7
Fox News reports, “The Republican Party is hoping to put a record number of African Americans in Congress after Tuesday’s election; despite the fact the first black president is highly unpopular within the party.

Why would there be any relation between the fact that a black President is unpopular in the GOP, and the fact that the GOP is running several black Americans as candidates this election cycle?

Could it be that maybe Republicans aren't racist?

I sure don't appreciate the presumption of prejudice which that sentence implies...

29 posted on 10/30/2010 10:48:27 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: BigEdLB
Personally, I am looking forward to Col. West down in Florida...

Is Lt. Col. Allen West going to win? I haven't seen any polls...

30 posted on 10/30/2010 10:51:06 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: MSSC6644

Yes, there will be Congressional Black Caucus members defeated.
No, the Black Republicans won’t come anywhere near outnumbering them.
Currently Black Democrats outnumber Black Republicans 42-0.
Look for it to be about 40-4 after the election.
And I’m optimitistic: 4 Black Republicans is ground-shaking.
However, in 2012, look for Black Republicans to outnumber Black Democrats in the Senate, 1-0. Go Micheal Williams (R-TX).
And maybe we could even get Larry Elder to knock off Diane Feinstein.


31 posted on 10/30/2010 11:08:48 PM PDT by dangus
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To: sargon
I sure don't appreciate the presumption of prejudice which that sentence implies imparts...

The real bigots have always been the 'liberals'.

32 posted on 10/31/2010 1:05:06 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

She’s been very gracious...and is a very beautiful woman.

She’ll be around for a long time.

It’s so much fun to watch the shoe being put on the other foot.


33 posted on 10/31/2010 1:12:20 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: convertedtoreason
"It’s not race. I’m post racial."

I have been that way for decades. However, when the black race-baiters push their racist agenda, I tend to get a little biased. Only natural. I would be the same way if the Italians, Greeks, Irish, Scottish (my heritage) did the same thing. I would be biased. Sue me.

34 posted on 10/31/2010 2:58:58 AM PDT by A Navy Vet ( An Oath Is Forever.)
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To: Islander7

bloody tea party racists! Oh...wait!


35 posted on 10/31/2010 3:10:15 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Islander7
find themselves always having to prove who they are.

This statement really, really bothers me and as an American I find it offensive. Offensive that another American, this day in age, would have to feel the need to "prove" who they are. What the hell do the have to "prove?"

They are successful people in America? They have morals? They have a strategy to lead? Just what exactly do they have to "prove?" You see these are the things with which I discriminate and choose my elected officials.

If you are thinking they have to "prove" they are "black" well then...that is racist. "Prove" they identify with the "black" experience? Ugh...they did and then they chose to rise above it. They chose to not be held down or held back by the policies that have been abused to create your preciously held "black experience."

There is nothing romantic or beautiful in what you are demanding they "prove" to you. The beauty and romance is found in they took their welfare, rose colored glasses off and realized the obstacles in front of them were illusions painted on the lenses by those who seek to control you.

They have nothing to "prove" to you, it is you that needs to "prove it to yourself." Your demand that a candidate "prove his/her blackness" is a false, discriminatory, and racist premise.

36 posted on 10/31/2010 3:54:41 AM PDT by EBH (the first step in a long journey...that finally begins on November 2nd, 2010.)
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To: sargon

Sunshine State News Poll, 10/21, West 47, Klein 44...from Real Clear Politics.


37 posted on 10/31/2010 5:50:37 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: MSSC6644
Star Parker is a bit of a long shot, but she is in the district just west of me, and Levin interviewed her last week. Smart lady.
38 posted on 10/31/2010 5:54:38 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Islander7
Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation:

“I’ve been told I hate myself. Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites.

Mr Johnson, tell your accusers "you know what happens when you assume" Demand THEY prove it.

You have plenty of ammunition to the contrary including the democrats of the KKK, George Wallace, Robt Byrd etc etc etc.

The slavers were RATs period.

39 posted on 10/31/2010 6:02:11 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: Islander7
Were it not for Kay Bailey Liarson (another sore-loser Republican) sequentially breaking her adamant vows to resign her Senate seat when she decided to run for Governor, we would also likely have a new black Republican Senator from Texas: Michael Williams. (He was endorsed by Jim Demint.)

If that b-word runs for another term, I'll crawl over broken glass to vote against her in the primary.

40 posted on 10/31/2010 6:27:10 AM PDT by Stultis (Democrats. Still devoted to the three S's: Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.)
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