Posted on 04/26/2014 5:50:40 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Paul, according to CNN, also talked about making the Republican party “bigger” and much more inclusive, saying that unless Republicans “broaden their message” to reach more people, winning future elections is going to be a bit of a problem.
“You go to a Republican event and it’s all white people—not because we’re excluding anybody, but because we just haven’t done a good enough job encouraging people to come into our party.”
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Emphasize things in your platform a constituency might like, keep quiet about things they might not like.
It’s called successful politics.
It doesn't get any whiter and male than libertarianism, it is almost pure white.
Try 94% non-Hispanic white, and few females, and few of what we think of as religious, and many anti-religious.
Bite me Ru Paul. Loser.
No reason he can’t go to some Nation of Islam meetings.
Won’t see a single paleface there except for himself.
Maybe he’ll fee l better about that.
As long as he stays there, we will too.
Ok give up. Good strategy.
Hell, back in the 50’s when you attended any event it was all White People and a smattering of Blacks then, either North, South, West or East.
LBJ changed all that.
Hispanics who become Protestant Christians, also start voting more republican.
Hispanic Protestants voted 56% republican in 2004, and 48% republican in 2008.
Senator, why don’t you just admit you’re a big time Libertarian and you only joined the GOP, as your father did, to get a more visible platform. You’re not fooling anyone sir. The big tent approach you advocate is the typical message from our good friends the RINOS. A few days ago I could stomach voting for this guy for president but now I know what a huge mistake that would be. He’s showing his true Libertarian stripes.
What the hell are you on about? We have been doing exactly what you suggest for decades. Where have you been? And why bitch at me? We ARE DOING WHAT YOU WANT NOW AND HAVE BEEN.
The only one bitching is you.
We really have JFK and the 1960 election to thank for that.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
And you are confused.
When Rand Paul was campaigning for Romney, he was telling libertarians that he wanted to change the party platform, as did Mitt Romney.
For example: “I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”
If Rand Paul doesn’t like white people at GOP gatherings, maybe he shouldn’t go. When he shows up it increases the percentage of white people. And based on his own pallid skin color, he probably counts as two white people.
Rand Paul is playing the race card.
He’s dead to me.
Paul's play is designed to wrap up the Millenial vote. The recent barrage of annoying position statements from him -- GOP is too white, abortion isn't important, gay marriage isn't a big deal, voter fraud isn't a factor, illegal immigrants are a benefit, etc. -- are all designed to appeal to the "youth vote".
And they won't run away his father's supporters.
Given that bloc of voters -- which superficially promises to expand the GOP voting base -- he can perhaps parlay his faction into a VP nomination.
Here’s some advice. When someone pisses you off, take 30 minutes before responding. You will come up with something that doesn’t make you sound like a 10 year old.
“the us voter is subhuman filth.”
2016 RNC Convention slogan? I can see the banners now.
Noted and ignored.
When someone points out to you that your idea has been in use for over 100 years and failed, it probably ain’t a winning strategy to Rule 12 the guy.
Foo don wan no hep, foo gon get no hep.
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