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A Black House Speaker? Former Congressman J.C. Watts Is Interested In John Boehner's Job
International Business Times ^ | 12 Oct 2015 | Aaron Morrison

Posted on 10/14/2015 12:42:05 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze

The U.S. Congress hasn’t elected an African-American as speaker of the House of Representatives since 1874, when South Carolina lawmaker Joseph Rainey became the first black speaker. More than 140 years later, the next person to be third in the line of succession to the Oval Office could be Washington lobbyist J.C. Watts, an African-American.

A former college football star and former Republican representative from Oklahoma, Watts told current House members who approached him about running for speaker that he was interested . . .

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: jcwatts; speaker
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To: bankwalker

“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?


61 posted on 10/14/2015 1:43:50 PM PDT by duffee (No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe ntain it would be mentosef is chairman)
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To: newfreep

That’s what I thought.

Screw him. He is a bigot and a racist.


62 posted on 10/14/2015 1:45:06 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: SmokingJoe

He was establishment all the way.


63 posted on 10/14/2015 1:48:03 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (')
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To: Kit cat

Why would you advance that narrative?


64 posted on 10/14/2015 1:48:29 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: petercooper

Hear! Hear! I’d pay to see JJ take down a few Dems!


65 posted on 10/14/2015 2:05:47 PM PDT by ru4liberty (I wish FR were still "The Premiere *CONSERVATIVE* Site on the Net" :'(.....)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
A Black House Speaker? Former Congressman J.C. Watts Is Interested In John Boehner's Job

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.

66 posted on 10/14/2015 2:09:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Where is he on illegal aliens?


67 posted on 10/14/2015 2:10:36 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Kit cat
Would be ALOT easier for a black speaker to up against a black POTUS couldn’t pull out the race card now could they!!!!!!

Same thing that got Watts fed up would happen. "He's not a REAL black man!"

68 posted on 10/14/2015 2:11:26 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dp0622
it would be a big boost for republicans to have a black speaker at presidential election time.

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.

69 posted on 10/14/2015 2:16:32 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Sgt_Schultze

What a wonderful thing it would be to have a real conservative MAN take john ‘blakmailed’ Boehner’s position!


70 posted on 10/14/2015 2:17:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: SmokingJoe

what a racist statement


71 posted on 10/14/2015 2:26:41 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: bankwalker

Yep. That should be the end of it.


72 posted on 10/14/2015 2:49:54 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: ru4liberty
Oh yeah. It might be a little like, this
73 posted on 10/14/2015 2:59:56 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Romans Nine

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?


74 posted on 10/14/2015 3:02:27 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: DiogenesLamp

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?


75 posted on 10/14/2015 3:30:01 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: erkelly

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”.


76 posted on 10/14/2015 3:32:36 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: dp0622
Not conservative. Totally GOPe. Would be like having John Boehner all over again. Not gonna happen.
77 posted on 10/14/2015 3:57:12 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Artemis Webb

I’m guessing they wouldn’t put a freshman in as speaker either, but I like Mia Love, a young black woman from Utah.


78 posted on 10/14/2015 4:02:20 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

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.


79 posted on 10/14/2015 4:10:26 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: dp0622
it would be a big boost for republicans to have a black speaker at presidential election time.

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.

80 posted on 10/14/2015 4:13:37 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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