Posted on 10/14/2015 12:42:05 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
“Watts supported and voted for Obama because he was black.”
I thought I remembered that and was certain it would be mentioned if true. That certainly should disqualify him. What are his convictions and principles?
That’s what I thought.
Screw him. He is a bigot and a racist.
He was establishment all the way.
Why would you advance that narrative?
Hear! Hear! I’d pay to see JJ take down a few Dems!
I really don't have a good understanding as to why he chose to leave congress anyways.
My gut instinct says that something not so good was beneath the surface of this.
It just never made sense to me that he would leave after such a short time. Most of those guys can't be pried out of those seats. He was set, yet decided to give it up for some reason.
Where is he on illegal aliens?
Same thing that got Watts fed up would happen. "He's not a REAL black man!"
i know, i hate the race game too, but we NEED the presidency.
Back in 1995-1996 I was telling anyone who would listen that we should have done it first. I knew that by nominating a respectable Black guy we would have cinched it because the normal 95% of the Black vote that goes to the Democrats would become lopsided in our favor.
The Media would have been defanged to a large extent, and he would enjoy the same Teflon shield against criticism that this current "community organizer" loser has.
Playing the race game would have advanced the cause of conservatism dramatically. It would have been philosophically inconsistent, but it would have dramatically affected the nation and the world for the better.
We missed a golden opportunity to stop a piece of sh*t like Barack Obama from ever having any meaning.
What a wonderful thing it would be to have a real conservative MAN take john ‘blakmailed’ Boehner’s position!
what a racist statement
Yep. That should be the end of it.
I do not recall JC Watts as being a squishy conservative at all. He was very conservative during his political career, and very much of a firebrand. I do recall that in his later private life, he has “mellowed†a bit, taking on a few slightly more liberal views in a few areas. But he was, overall, very much a classical liberal (which is what true conservatism is.) It seems to me that somehow we have lost the definition of what conservatism really is. For example, Jeb Bush, should NEVER be considered a conservative, ever, no matter what classical liberal positions claims to take, because above all a classical liberal (conservative) believes in the right life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and Jeb Bush failed that very first test when he allowed Teri Schiavo to die. Jeb Bush, and George Bush, who also failed this test, should be rejected out of hand. I cannot imagine the outspoken unabashed congressman that JC Watts was that I remember even considering for a moment allowing Teri Schiavo to be murdered. That is my test for who is conservative, and it is a good one. Ask yourself this, about each and every candidate you would consider voting for: “Would this man (or woman) stand by and allow an innocent disabled women to be starved and dehydrated to death when he had the resources to prevent it, with the only real cost being possible damage to his political career?
You are wrong. Blacks are voting democrat period.
Beside we are worse than them if we play into this narrative. Is that really so hard to see?
I can’t remember the details about JC but I remember being very disappointed in him.
I certainly agree with you on every other point you make.
No Bush was/is a “conservative”.
I’m guessing they wouldn’t put a freshman in as speaker either, but I like Mia Love, a young black woman from Utah.
First thing out the gate is oooooh he’s black!!! Can’t we have an election/appointment without doing it simply for skin color? Apparently, his core beliefs and job fitness have nothing to do with it.
It wouldn't. We had a black GOP Chairman a few years back and it never made any difference as far as the black vote was concerned.
i know, i hate the race game too, but we NEED the presidency
Pandering to blacks has never paid off for the GOP. Blacks will continue to vote over 90% for the Democrats in the presidential elections.
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