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Posted on 07/16/2004 9:13:37 PM PDT by Veritas_est
Blacks Turning to GOP With Herman Cain?
July 16, 2004
Listen to Rush… (…explain to caller that the tide is turning but there's still a long way to go)
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Christian in Atlanta, you're next. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Dittos from Atlanta. It's morning again in Georgia. I want to send conservative optimistic dittos from Atlanta.
RUSH: Yeah, great city, Atlanta.
CALLER: It's an honor to speak with you, and I want to talk today about Herman Cain, a candidate we have here in Atlanta running for Zell Miller.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, the pizza guy, pizza guy.
CALLER: Absolutely, a self-made man, great example of the minority Americans, that the American dream is alive and well. He's a great speaker. He's a man of God. He can show you what, you know, successful applying yourself can do and lead you to. My question for you was how do you think the Democrats are going to try to keep a stranglehold on the minority vote if people like Bill Cosby or --
RUSH: Oh, they're not. If you think the Democrats would have any compunction or fear about trying to destroy Herman Cain you'd better get over it, because they will. I mean they've tried to destroy any number of conservative --
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: -- blacks stand in their way, and is that what your question is?
CALLER: Well, I see with Cosby's statement and him getting cheers at the convention with Rod Paige yesterday, I feel things are turning. The 90% stranglehold I think is going to start to chip away.
RUSH: All right, now, let's talk about Cosby for just a second. Now, Cosby went to the Rainbow PUSH thing, the Monochrome Coalition and said what he said, and then he said it somewhere else. He said it two times, got rave reviews both times. You know that Cosby went to the NAALCP this week?
CALLER: Wasn't reported.
RUSH: That's right. Went in there, he did an hour-and-a-half stand-up comedy routine, didn't say one thing about politics, didn't say one thing anywhere remotely close to what he had said to the Monochrome Coalition of the Reverend Jackson. Now, it's theorized, and it's not known for sure, but it is theorized that the NAALCP asked him not to because these guys run workshops all day and their lives are full of politics and ideology and all they wanted was a joke routine.All they wanted was entertainment, and that's what he did.
Now, look, I've been doing this show for 16 years, and every day -- well, not every day, but every week in these 16 years -- there will be an event happen that has made us think, "You know, the tide may be turning. There may be a shift going on, black votes going to Republican candidates," and it really hasn't happened. There's a percentage of 10-to-12% of the black population, which is middle and upper class, which has broken away from the traditional prescriptions of the civil rights coalition, the NAALCP, but the percentage isn't really growing. You're just hearing from different people in it. Now, I'm not trying to be negative about it. I think it's gonna happen at some point, because, like everybody else on the left, they're old. Their playbook is dying out. They haven't put any new plays or pages in it, and at some point, you know, being a membership of the Democratic Party power party table is not going to be that big a deal. I don't know how soon that's going to be, but the NAALCP is more firmly partisan than they have ever been.
CALLER: That's all they are.
RUSH: And to the extent that they're able to go out and marshal the traditional 88-to-90% of the black vote for the Democrat candidate, they still have that power.
CALLER: Well, the message that Herman is giving in black churches is asking them, you know, "Are you against abortion?" and they raise their hands, and "Are you for lower taxes?" and they raise their hands. He says, "Congratulations, you're all conservative Republicans," and when we get that message out that our core values are akin to their core values, and we get the real truth past the media, I think that turn will come and I hope it's now.
RUSH: Well, it may be. That's what he should do. I don't think anybody ought to go into this, certainly not him, not his campaign, ought to go into this defensively. Don't worry about --
CALLER: Oh, yeah, he's not.
RUSH: They know, they know this is also the state of Cynthia McKinney. And they're trying to revive Cynthia McKinney. (FrontPageMag: Georgia's Hatemonger Returns) Now, this woman is an absolute lame brain wacko. This woman is 180 degrees out of phase when she's asleep. When she's awake, it's hard to be more than 180-degrees out of phase, but she's a total wacko. They're trying to revive her. The Congressional Black Caucus? There's not a group in America more out of touch with this country than the Congressional Black Caucus, and they hold a lot of sway. They have no fear about going after a black candidate who's gone off the quote, unquote, reservation. And from what I know of Herman Cain he has no fear of this. He's going to be who he is, not afraid of his message, loves his message, very confident about it. That will do more than anything else. Just stick with it.
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RUSH: Actually, Mr. Snerdley was just telling me there has been some demographic movement and a shift of blacks to the Republican Party. Give me those age-groups again? 26 and 35, the percentage has gone from what to what? From 5% to 15% of blacks ages 26-35 now say they're Republican. So there is a movement. But you're still left with 75% that are Democrats. But there is movement. So I didn't mean to portray it as hopeless out there, when talking to the Herman Cain caller. No, it wasn't pessimistic, it was realistic. I acknowledged the fact that there were trends coming.
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I heard that call. It was great!
Its not as hopeless as it seems. If just 4 to 5% of blacks switch, its the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party. You can bet they don't want Herman Cain in the Senate opposite Barack Obama.
I am living in GA because that is where my uncle (U.S.) sent me. I have seriously considered changing my state of residence just so I could vote for Herman Cain. I hope that he marks a change not only in Georgia politics, but on the national scene as well.
Blacks will continue to back the party that has enslaved them.
Georgia is an open-primary state.
I wonder how many blacks will choose to vote in the GOP primary simply to vote for him.
(Businessmen with no political experience do not fare well in GA. Just ask Guy Millner)
If the GOP got even 20% of the black vote, the Democrat Party would be over.
Isn't this exactly what Limbaugh was saying before the 2000 election; that blacks we're disenchanted with the democrats and were either not going to vote or vote for Bush.
In reality, I believe it was a record turnout for blacks, and they didn't vote republican.
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No. Most savvy political commentators said back in 2000 that the minority voting patterns nationwide would duplicate Governor Bush's Texas performances in 1994 and 1998 (rising percentages voted for him after getting to know him).
It's a start.
10 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Of course the GOP should try and increase its share of the black vote. And the Hispanic vote. And the Asian vote.....But Bush didn't exactly light it up with white voters last time, garnering just 54% of their vote nationwide. Considering the opposition openly and actively supports blatantly anti-white policies like racial preferences, 54% is pathetic. Bush the elder got 59%in 1988. Reagan got 64% in 1984. For all the talk about Bush needing to increase his share of the Hispanic vote to 40% to win reelection noone ever points out how if Bush could repeat his father's success with whites then he'd win in a landslide.
Of course I'm sure Bush did better with whites in the South, but still I'll bet there is room for improvement even there.
I'm for Mac Collins, who is much better than Isakson.
Isakson ran for the GOP primary in 1994 and 1996 (Senate and Gov) on a 100% pro-choice platform.
Prior to his opportunistic run for Newt's old seat, he was truly a moderate Republican. That's why he failed to win in those 2 statewide races.
He knew he had to become more conservative to win a statewide primary, hence his changing of spots the last few of years.
(And by the way, he was more liberal in other ways than being pro-choice as well)
That is not going to happen on a national basis. First of all, the claim that Bush got 49% of the latino vote in 1998 was disputed by other sources, but even if its true then he lost ground with them in 2000 when he got 44% of their support vs Gore.
Bush's landslide Texas victories have been due to his winning 70+% of the state's white vote. His performane with whites nationwide was almost 20 points lower, so he needs to not only work on doing better with non-whites, but also with whites. Though I guess you're not supposed to say that. I mean, the Dems can openly go after any and all groups including Southern, rural, and suburban whites, plus their base of non-white supporters, but for the GOP to be politically correct and to not run afoul of the diversity police, then they can only openly seek to do better with non-whites (for which they'll be ridiculed for being insincere) while for them to openly and actively court more of what is actually their base will bring up charges of the evil 'Southern Strategy'.
But it GA. Cain will win the General election with easy. He can fill the hole left by Phil Gram on the Right in the Senate.
There sure wasn't much if any applause for kerry yesterday at the NAALCP. Sure didn't look motivated at all.
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