Posted on 06/01/2015 8:06:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The only black votes I’m concerned about are the ones we don’t have to pander for.
We’ve got the black votes we can win. They are blacks who are independent, conservative, and have intact families, that generally do not live in the urban feral neighborhoods.
These are the decent citizens from that community that do not feel entitled to live off other folks’ money because they think they deserve it and its their reparations from whitey.
I personally know blacks here who vote Republican and I know others who say they are planning to vote GOP because they hate Hillary.
What about this section:
“Chelsi Henry is a young, black lawyer in her twenties who became the first registered Republican in her family. Born to a teen mother, she found the GOP’s message and values to resonate with her because they were the values her mother had instilled in her, including economic personal responsibility. She also cares about issues like school choice. Though Henry has not yet picked a candidate, it is worth noting that Sen. Ted Cruz surprised many by teaming up with black Democrats to push school choice, calling it “the civil rights issue of the 21st century.” With polls showing minority parents statistically more likely to support issues like school choice, since their kids are more likely to be faced with failing public schools, school choice is another issue that may give an opening to a GOP candidate to chip away at black voters in key states, and not just Ted Cruz.”
the republican candidate can ask them where the dems have gotten them the past fifty years. we cant keep losing 13 percent of the vote right off the bat. even if we got to 20 percent, it would make a huge difference. I know, I’m probably dreaming.
getting black pastors involved might help. restoring family could be the message
Black pastors by and large are liberation theology folks that hate whitey and think whites are the devil. Don’t think that kind of stuff isn’t transmitted to the congregations.
Black Jesus isn’t just some thing the Onion made up for humor.
The black vote is irrelevant for presidential purposes to the GOP. It is too small to begin with, its largest proportions are concentrated in states like Louisiana and Mississippi that the GOP will carry anyway, and the compromises required to gain just a sliver more of the vote would alienate many white voters.
As an electoral matter, it would make a lot more sense to try and capture a few more percentage points of the white electorate (which would swing the election) than a few more points of the black or hispanic electorates (which would not).
For every Chelsi Henry, there are thousands of died-in-the-wool welfare gibmedats, unfortunately.
I tend to agree with you. For us to win any sizable percentage of the Black vote we would have to pander for it, and I’m tired of watering down conservatism to attract their miniscule number of votes. Better to try and win the votes of second and third generation Hispanics who tend to get more conservative as they assimilate into American culture and Asian voters who are upwardly mobile and successful.
If a Hispanic goes into a voting booth without someone to tell them what to do and sees the name “Cruz” opposite O’Malley, Sanders, Warren or Clinton, what do you think they’ll do in many cases? LOL
Exactly. At this point an outreach program to Black voters is a waste of time. Black voters will continue to give 95% of their vote in every election to the Democrats. I wonder though how Blacks will react when the growing Hispanic voting bloc will ascend to the leadership of the Democratic Party, and make the Black vote not as critical as it has been in the past few decades.
Yup. Identity politics is what Blacks and Latinos tend to follow. I find it funny how liberal people of color try to make Ben Carson less “Black” and Ted Cruz less “Latino to justify their voting for a liberal candidate like Hillary.
No, the GOP can’t win black votes.
First the GOP will have to realize the concerns of black people.
Actually since many black voters are in NY, CA and Ill where if they all switch to the GOP the states would still go Dim and many more blacks are in AL, LA, SC, MS, GA, etc where the GOP already is assured of a win, in fact the GOP can continue to lose 13% of the electorate right off the bat.
Certainly winning more black votes in FL, Oh, Va, Wi, PA and MI might turn elections. So if I were the GOP that is where I would focus my efforts.
Pres Reagan and Newt Gingrich helped me become a Conservative Republican. I think had Rand Paul been in the leadership back then I would not have found the GOP so attractive as a Christian/black cause at times he sounds just like Al Sharpton blaming America & not acknowledging personal responsibility.
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