[ncweaver]

Until the majority of blacks realize that big gov't is not what's best for the country OR for them in the long run, they'll stick with the big gov't, power hungry dems.

What's so ironic is that the GOP is now almost as big gov't as the dems. The differences are few and far between. We lose more of our conservative base with every give away bill passed.

I cringe everytime I hear President Bush and almost all of the Republican candidates say we need a prescription drug benefit added to Medicare.

[mhking]

Until the majority of blacks realize that big gov't is not what's best for the country OR for them in the long run, they'll stick with the big gov't, power hungry dems.

Agreed.

What we need to do, on the other hand, as opposed to allowing the libs to keep their bully pulpit monopoly, is to take the message to them. If confronted with the truth in a way that eliminates the middleman that the libs have become; not patronizing, mind you, but moving forward in a positive way, then blacks who would have traditionally been considered to be in the mainstream begin to think. We then get to erode - albeit slowly - that stranglehold that the libs have on black America.

Trying to influence the "majority" of black America, and using that as the yardstick of whether successful or not is not the way to go. A better measure is a move from 8% of voting blacks to 9 or 10%. We have to start with baby steps. My 11 month-old is trying to take her first steps. Admittedly, she tries to run - which is when she falls on her face - but when she takes slow, deliberate steps, she moves forward, much to the delight of her mother and I.

This is no different. We have to move with baby steps. Otherwise, it won't happen, and we will (as we have in the past) fall on our face.