Question: Why do you think so few nonwhite Americans support the Republican Party right now?
Steele: ‘Cause we have offered them nothing! And the impression we’ve created is that we don’t give a damn about them or we just outright don’t like them. And that’s not a healthy thing for a political party. I think the way we’ve talked about immigration, the way we’ve talked about some of the issues that are important to African-Americans, like affirmative action... I mean, you know, having an absolute holier-than-thou attitude about something that’s important to a particular community doesn’t engender confidence in your leadership by that community—or consideration of you for office or other things—because you’ve already given off the vibe that you don’t care. What I’m trying to do now is to say we do give a damn.
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That should have jumped out at me when I first read it. “We have offered them nothing” he first badmouths his own party up one side and down the other and then promises to give them stuff? Give a damn?
Incredible. There are so many ways he could have explained that the GOP had short-sightedly abandoned minorities to the democrats but that conservatism had much so more to offer. Instead he makes the GOP out to be just as bad as the libs have accused them of being. Then he nebulously promises to start giving a damn.
He really thinks he’s being hip, cool and persuasive. I’d have rather had Jesse Helms giving these interviews.
I agree - “offered them nothing” is so distateful when we see all of the many things the GOP’s conservative platform stands for.
By definition(unless you are on-the-take or power-hungry), Conservative principles are what’s really offered to all Americans, white black or whatever, that form a bedrock to guide the country’s and individual’s prosperity.
Steel needs to go. NOW.