Brazile: Blacks Poised to Bolt Democratic Party

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/01/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Donna Brazile, who managed Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign two years ago, sent a memo to Democratic lawmakers last month warning that they need to do more to reach out to African-Americans or risk losing their support in coming elections.

"The Republicans are in the House," Brazile said in the controversial memo, quoted in Sunday editions of New York's Newsday. "They came in through the window and they want to play."

The former Gore official, who now heads up the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute, urged party officials to "roll up their sleeves and box (the GOP) out." Otherwise, Brazile cautioned, support from the Democrats' most loyal constituency is likely to "slip away."

"The party is ready for that challenge," she added, "but it remains to be seen" whether they'll take it.

Although African-American turnout in 2002 was similar to that of other midterm elections, Brazile still termed it "unsatisfactory," noting that blacks flocked to the polls in droves two years earlier to vote for Gore.

Brazile attributed the diminished turnout to the fact that the party spent less money in 2002 on minority outreach, while the GOP launched an intensive radio ad campaign in urban markets.

Others complain that party chief Terry McAuliffe offered only tepid support to African-American candidates. University of Maryland political science professor Ron Walters told Newsday that McAuliffe didn't give black Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall the campaign cash he promised "until it was beaten out of him."

"The love affair is over between African-Americans and the Democrats," political strategist Jaques DeGraff said. "In massive numbers we still can't go and pull that Republican lever, but we can still stay home."

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[Uncle Miltie]

"Not to mention vouchers"

Or support of marriage; meaning one man and one woman.

[expatpat]

Excellent points, DCPatriot. Moreover, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are there because they are eminently qualified, not as tokens. It's hard for the Demo leaders to appoint African-Americans because they don't want to give up any power themselves.

[afraid]

This is a joke. The Democrat black vote is not going anywhere.
The day a Republican gets 10% to 15% of the black vote is the day we all go and pull the lever for Hillary (Bi*ch) Clinton.

When Condi runs, if she does as pres or vp, the Republican ticket will get a lower percentage than ever. She is not liked folks, she will not bring blacks to vote for her. She will only get them to vote against her in huge numbers.

[Stultis]

Donna Brazile, who managed Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign two years ago, sent a memo to Democratic lawmakers last month warning that they need to do more to reach out to African-Americans or risk losing their support in coming elections.

Translation: "Attention DNC, ballot box stuffers threatening to strike for better working conditions."

[truth defector]

The black churches burning scenerio the Clintonoids perpetrated against their own voting block should have been enough to make them leave in droves. Notice today, black churches are not burning and I can't think of any arrests made in the cases. Same spin as the angry white wingers causing all the damage in this country that the Clintons always spun to make some political hay!

[ChadGore]

School choice! School choice! It's a black issue too !

[Henchster]

"Although African-American turnout in 2002 was similar to that of other midterm elections, Brazile still termed it "unsatisfactory," noting that blacks flocked to the polls in droves two years earlier to vote for Gore."

WRONG! It was vote FRAUD in black districts that created a "lift" for Gore.

[185JHP]

There's a problem with that quotation - it doesn't take into account something that didn't exist at the time the quotation was made: confiscatory income taxing. As long as there's an income tax, there'll be voters that vote for a party that talks tax cuts - and occasionally delivers them.

[NYTexan]

"If blacks vote GOP, it will be because they understand that Republicans have the better policies,"

The GOP needs to SHOUT the message that it wants to give a hand UP instead of hand-outs. And THAT is the true path to freedom and liberty in this great country! Help them to understand why 40-50 years of DNC B.S. has only been used against them. This country needs to work as a TEAM, not as a country devided.

Time to laugh the leftist liberals off the stage and invite them to re-locate to France. Next time one talks to a liberal, tell them to get the hell out of our country!

[Clemenza]

Condi would be a great candidate in 2008. Unfortunatly, the abortion-is-everything crowd would crucify her.

Then again, my hot-button issue is the Second Amendment (Condi is pro-gun). It would be difficult for me to support someone like Giuliani for Prez largely on the gun issue.

[Stultis]

I thought Frank Lautenberg, Walter Mondale, and Nancy Pelosi were all honorary Black People, like Clinton. Does this mean they're not?

No, they certainly are. Not only that, you forgot Bill BcBride, apparently so appointed by Honorary Black Person (and Rapist) #1 when he rerouted New York Governorship candidate Carl McCall's campaign funds to Mac B in F-L-A. McCall was in the disadvantageous position of being a Non-Honary (i.e., an actual) Black Person, and of having already performed his essential function of knocking Mario Cuomo (Billary rival for New York state Democratic Party leadership) out of the Race. Of course McBumbles appointment may have been anulled since he failed to "represent". Cuomo, obviously, is too enthnic to be an Honorary Black Person.

[xJones]

"The love affair is over between African-Americans and the Democrats," political strategist Jaques DeGraff said. "In massive numbers we still can't go and pull that Republican lever, but we can still stay home."

Now that's the dumbest comment. By staying home, black voters aren't represented by anybody. Sure, the Dems will shaft the faithful blacks, so all the more reason to get out and explore other parties, particularly the GOP. In my Texas GOP precinct meetings, we'd fall all over any black that walked in the door because we don't ever see that.

[Stultis]

If I am George W. Bush, and if I were to take politics into consideration on this sort of thing (just as a hypothetical), I'd have word leak out that Clarence Thomas is my first choice for Chief Justice.

I'm pleased and proud to have Clarence on the court. Without detracting from his excellence one bit, he doesn't have the temprament to be chief. The Cheif Justice should be reasonably glib, and be an excellent writer of legal opinions. Thomas doesn't fill that bill.

[swheats]

"The Republicans are in the House," Brazile said in the controversial memo, quoted in Sunday editions of New York's Newsday. "They came in through the window and they want to play."

Anything other than the front door says they got their unlawfully. The DNC need to deal with the truth, that the people elected the officials that are better able to represent our interests. Their spokesmen continue to downgrade the very people they need votes from.

[WaterDragon]

I think conservatives are doing a little better job at exposing the failed policies of the Democrats, getting out a little more clearly the data on how devastating to blacks especially the Democratic policies have actually been.

Personally, it infuriates me that the Democrats succeeded for so long. America cannot, cannot afford the loss of what well-educated, confident blacks offer this nation. Keeping them ignorant and mired in victimology is not to anyone's benefit, much less theirs.

[Neanderthal]

I think Sally and Johnny are republicans.

Black People Love us!

[Revolutionary]

The big secret is that the Democrat socialist elite really hate the blacks. The second they didn't need them anymore, they would dump them. They are in it for the power, and they will use and abuse anyone or any group to get it. But after they have it, those people or groups are expendable until the next time they are needed. If they had their way, they would have zero need for any of the minority vote.

[demosthenes the elder]

"They came in through the window and they want to play." ...urged party officials to "roll up their sleeves and box (the GOP) out."...the Democrats' most loyal constituency is likely to "slip away."...Brazile attributed the diminished turnout to the fact that the party spent less money in 2002 on minority outreach, while the GOP launched an intensive radio ad campaign in urban markets.

God, how I love the language the Leftists use!

The GOP did not come in through the window (as would thieves) but instead came in the front door as the duly elected representatives of the People.

The GOP did not come "to play" but to det down to some serious work.

And what is with that pugilistic aphorism? Why is it that Leftists are so ready to use rhetorical allusions to violence? Such a strident call for self-defense/aggression can only be seen as a cry of pain.

And don't you just adore the description of black abandonment of the DNC in terms of furtive movement? As if these people who have had their fill of being field hands are sneaking away from the DNC plantation in the cover of night...

And, finally, how quaint: when the DNC tries to entice black voters, it is called "minority outreach" - something noble-sounding, humane, generous, inclusive, cooperative; When the GOP does the very same thing, it is called "an intensive ad campaign" - something suggestive of callous marketing, selling a bill of goods, flashy packaging of trashy goods.

God, how I love the language of the Left...