I’m using outreach in the same way that a lot of Tea Party members want GOP/Conservative candidates to conduct outreach to them.
It’s not that Conservative Blacks are stupid. Its that, facing condemnation by their own community for their beliefs (identity politics at work), Republicans/Conservatives just ignore them.
As far as playing to race, you know I don’t really have much of a problem with Conservative outreach being centered on the idea that the Liberals are manipulating them in a racist manner in order to keep them on the Democrat plantation. Do you?
Oh I don’t have a problem with it as long as what is good for one is good for all and whites need to start acting accordingly.
‘It’s not that Conservative Blacks are stupid. Its that, facing condemnation by their own community for their beliefs (identity politics at work), Republicans/Conservatives just ignore them.’
I converted from a liberal Dem to a conservative Republican in the bluest of blue states, MA. I did not know a single conservative/Republican in the entire state. Every person I knew was a liberal Dem. Conservative Republicans are DESPISED in MA. They are outcastes & rejects. No Republican or conservative reached out to me before or after my conversion. I went it alone.
A black person could do the same if they wanted to. Or, if peer pressure was too great, they could confine their conservativism to the voting booth. We would see the difference in electoral outcomes, & it would be significant.
But they don’t want to vote Republican. They want to vote Dem, for reasons that Cochran spelled out with letter perfect efficiency. For that reason, it’s past time for people like Parker to stop dangling the ‘they’d vote for you if only you’d do more outreach’ carrot in front of conservatives. It’s a fraud. A hoax.
& still some fall for it.
Here is a little anecdote to illustrate how blue MA is. When I said I didn’t know a single conservative Republican, I was including the people in the church I attended. In fact, the pastor was one of the three ‘spiritual counselors’ who attended Bill Clinton post-Monica. This same pastor had earlier announced from the pulpit that Bill Clinton was innocent. Now granted, the elders ambushed him afterward & said ‘No more politics from the pulpit’. So maybe one or two of them was a closet Republican; I don’t know.
But anyway, that is how liberal the state was/is. So don’t give me peer pressure. I had that in spades. Nevertheless, if you get sick & tired of far left moonbattery, you convert regardless. I’m living proof.