I say nominate Condi Rice or, perhaps a Guiliana/Rice ticket. Republicans should trump the rats by being the first to offer a black and female candidate.
Clearly the dumbest idea ever posted on FR. I'm serious.
Has the GOP been reduced to tokenism? White guys need not apply? Are we a nation of race voters, and we need to pander?
The political reality is the RATS could run a Klansman and the Pubbies could run a black-female-homosexual-Indian-unwed-single mom-against nuclear energy, and the non-white male crowd would still vote RAT better than 3-1. You would only serve to chase the straight-white-male vote from the Pubbies.
What happened to "wedge" issues?
Au contraire!
Running qualified and conservative female or minority candidates need not be pandering. We have a good candidate in Condi and she should be front and center, so to speak.
If as Republicans, we think that we can prevail without attracting these constituencies we are sadly (and tragically) mistaken.
Our role has to be to continue to educate people on our beliefs so they can see why they should stand with us. Many times we have done a poor job with this. One of our best spokeman in this regard is Rush, IMHO. It's a slow process, but we must do it.
BTW, Rudy's not white??