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  • Thomas Sowell to Newsmax: GOP Outreach to Blacks ‘Most Unpromising’

    03/23/2013 10:13:40 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 67 replies
    Newsmax ^ | March 22, 2013 | Todd Beamon & John Bachman
    Economist and conservative author Thomas Sowell tells Newsmax TV that “Republicans have a decades-long record” of reaching out to the black vote in the “most unpromising way possible.” And based on the party’s strategy moving forward, he says, not much has changed. “I’m baffled by so many things that the Republican Party does nationally,” Sowell tells Newsmax on Friday in an exclusive interview. Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, tells Newsmax the GOP’s current plan to woo minorities is the same misguided strategy employed decades ago by former President Ronald Reagan. “When [Reagan] set out...
  • Huckabee ... The GOP's Cynical Use of Religion Has Come Home to Roost

    12/20/2007 9:28:38 AM PST · by Between the Lines · 80 replies · 285+ views
    History News Network ^ | 12-18-07 | Arianna Huffington
    With Mike Huckabee's continuing surge, the Republican Party now has an Iowa front-runner whose religious beliefs are virtually identical to those of George Bush. He's anti-choice, born-again, against gay-marriage, and gets political advice directly from God. So why is the Republican establishment suddenly in a state of near-apoplexy about Mike Huckabee? Shouldn't they be happy? They've been cultivating evangelicals and fundamentalists for 30 years. Now they finally have a candidate who's truly part of the movement. So what's the problem? Actually, that is the problem. The evangelical crowd was fine when it was just a resource to be cynically exploited...