At that time Martin Luther King was a Republican! Why? Because of brave and decent men like Gov. George Romney.
Sadly, Republicans seem obsessed with never winning back Black support--and this pathetic, putrid, shameful thread exemplifies the reason why. Instead of exulting in and cherishing our early civil rights heroes, we play stupid, divisive games of "gotcha" over candidate's words.
If this is the idiot light by which we choose sail our ship of hopes, we deserve to be torn asunder on the reefs of election year 2008.
That's awful.
Gotta admit though, it is better than the same spamming comment posted 29 times.
Absolutely right. The level of FRhatred for Mitt Romney exceeds that of any other Republican candidate. For good or ill, increasingly FReepers are becoming a FRinge group in the larger scheme of things, so this irrational hatred of Mitt Romney here may not harm him too much in the general election, unless these blind-haters succeed in landing the nomination for Rudy G. or McCain.
You don't know your political history. African Americans were Republicans because of the liberation of blacks from slavery, and because of the post civil war administration. It had nothing to do with the Romneys. It had to do with 300,000 Yankees getting killed. It wasn't until after the era of George Romney, and the construction of the welfare state and corruption of the black family that blacks became Democrats. You could say the George Romney was at the founding of the destruction of black America.
How, exactly, do you propose that we win the black vote? The vast majority of Republicans voted for every civil rights bill in the sixties, and the decade ended with 90% of blacks voting Democrat. Romney’s kindness was met with massive black rioting in Detroit and whites basically being run out of the city, which became a Democrat fiefdom that pretty much guarantees Democrat dominance statewide.
What’s Mitt gonna do to get us up to more than 10% of the black vote?