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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[demosthenes the elder]

I have seen this quote, and it applies. It is also either derived from or consonant with Plato's "Republic"
The good news is that the USA was not founded as a democracy, but as a constitutional republic. The bad news is that the Leftists (and some twits on the Right) have managed to render the Constitution moribund.

[rdb3]

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.

And even that sounds better than what some neanderthals around here call it when going after American black voters.

If the GOP seeks these voters, these clowns immediately call it "pandering."

There shall be no mercy.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[demosthenes the elder]

good morning, rdb3!
Glad too see someone else notices the oddities of language use (and the biases they expose).
Not at all surprised that you are one such monitor.

[hchutch]

I think he is underestimated in that regard. He's smart, and he's written good ones in the past. Furthermore, the mere possibility of his nomination would be interesting.

It's all about making the Dems choose between segments of their base - in a Thomas nomination fight for Chief Justice, either the abortion lobby or African-Americans. I think he is more than capable of handling the job. Scalia strikes me as too abrasive.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic was posted 12/1/2002 by the late FReeper kattracks. IOW, it's been twelve years and it's still any day now.

[GOPJ]

Yes, any day now...

[bert]

Translation...... gibmedats want more gibmedat

[Ditter]

We needs mo free stuff! We don't get it we be leavin’ the demacrat plantation. We mean it now!

Yes I be makin’ fun of getto speak.

[tomkat]

RIP kattracks .. you are missed down here in our little corner of the webz.

[Ditter]

Oh no, I didn’t know or didn’t remember that kattracks had passed. When and why?

[exit82]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723531/posts

Back in Oct. 2006, kattracks passed away.

[tomkat]

Long time back, 2006/7.
One of our most prodigious thread originators in her time.

Here's the thread posted by her daughter on her passing:

Kattracks is with God now

[1010RD]

McAuliffe is just another white Democrat racist. Any day now black America will wake up to that fact... if we help them to.