Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of beach communities in Florida to the suburbs of Phoenix, where an African-American candidate has raised more money than all but two of his nine (white) Republican competitors in the primary.
Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of beach communities in Florida to the suburbs of Phoenix, where an African-American candidate has raised more money than all but two of his nine (white) Republican competitors in the primary.
Of course, I disagree with these mooooslem film makers and the communist who wrote the original book!!!! The relevant question should be: what was the matter with Kansas before it went hardcore teabagger???
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Isn’t it just as insulting to suggest that black people havn’t been able to figure out for themselves which party best represents them?
Sometimes it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you--even if it’s in your best interest.
Maybe people are smart enough to determine their own self interest.
Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of beach communities in Florida to the suburbs of Phoenix, where an African-American candidate has raised more money than all but two of his nine (white) Republican competitors in the primary.
Most poor whites in the south have been voting against their own interests for decades by pulling the lever for republican candidates. What’s new?
We weren’t. My family came from dirt-poor backgrounds. Dems never got us ahead - it was pro-business Republicans and policies that let them hire my dad at Exxon, where he worked hard, moved up on merit, and did good work for them and retired.
We were responsible for ourselves. Conservative values - not Lefty handouts - made that possible.
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Isn’t it just as insulting to suggest that black people havn’t been able to figure out for themselves which party best represents them?
Sometimes it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you--even if it’s in your best interest.
Maybe people are smart enough to determine their own self interest.
Wow, DZ. You should be a Republican. I think people are definitely smart enough to determine their own self-interests. Your party doesn’t believe that.
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Isn’t it just as insulting to suggest that black people havn’t been able to figure out for themselves which party best represents them?
Sometimes it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you--even if it’s in your best interest.
Maybe people are smart enough to determine their own self interest.
Wow, DZ. You should be a Republican. I think people are definitely smart enough to determine their own self-interests. Your party doesn’t believe that.
Do you think that? Because it seems that by pointing out that they hadn’t been able to figure it out until you are saying that they had not been smart enough to figure it out.
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Isn’t it just as insulting to suggest that black people havn’t been able to figure out for themselves which party best represents them?
Sometimes it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you--even if it’s in your best interest.
Maybe people are smart enough to determine their own self interest.
Wow, DZ. You should be a Republican. I think people are definitely smart enough to determine their own self-interests. Your party doesn’t believe that.
Do you think that? Because it seems that by pointing out that they hadn’t been able to figure it out until you are saying that they had not been smart enough to figure it out.
Your sentence doesn’t work, but I get what you’re driving at.
CC raises question that Dems don’t seem to promote - that individuals cannot or shouldn’t be responsible for themselves. It APPEARS, at least on the surface, that the Dem power base benefits from an ill-educated, poorer populace for its votes, and puts in measures that don’t promote self-sufficiency.
That’s really all we’re saying. A core conservative value is self-responsibility - that there are many things that I should take care of and have power over on my own with government’s responsibility to remove obstacles, NOT to determine what is good for me.
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Maybe African- Americans are seeing the free ride Steele is getting and decided they want to be big spenders to .
So you feel African-Americans only interest is a free ride?
No I think some of them work their azz off , but I also see some of them being smart enough to realize the republican party is to damm scared to fire Steele .
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Maybe African- Americans are seeing the free ride Steele is getting and decided they want to be big spenders to .
So you feel African-Americans only interest is a free ride?
No I think some of them work their azz off , but I also see some of them being smart enough to realize the republican party is to damm scared to fire Steele .
Uh, Michael Steel can’t be “fired”.
They could vote him back out but the reality is they are scared to be the first party to remove their black leader and they are to scared to remove their
chosen one .
I notice you did not defend Steele by saying what a great Job he is doing but I do thank you for correcting me on the word fire .
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Maybe African- Americans are seeing the free ride Steele is getting and decided they want to be big spenders to .
So you feel African-Americans only interest is a free ride?
No I think some of them work their azz off , but I also see some of them being smart enough to realize the republican party is to damm scared to fire Steele .
Uh, Michael Steel can’t be “fired”.
They could vote him back out but the reality is they are scared to be the first party to remove their black leader and they are to scared to remove their
chosen one .
I notice you did not defend Steele by saying what a great Job he is doing but I do thank you for correcting me on the word fire .
Steele’s term will be up and someone else will take his place. That’s how it works. No one is scared to remove him and it hasn’t happened in a while to any party leader.
Maybe African- Americans are realizing that the Democratic party has let them down. It’s still treating them like second class citizens by pushing policies to “help” blacks get ahead, as if they couldn’t do it on their own merits. It’s insulting. This is great news ... and if these candidates are conservatives then best of luck to them!
Maybe African- Americans are seeing the free ride Steele is getting and decided they want to be big spenders to .
So you feel African-Americans only interest is a free ride?
No I think some of them work their azz off , but I also see some of them being smart enough to realize the republican party is to damm scared to fire Steele .
Uh, Michael Steel can’t be “fired”.
They could vote him back out but the reality is they are scared to be the first party to remove their black leader and they are to scared to remove their
chosen one .
I notice you did not defend Steele by saying what a great Job he is doing but I do thank you for correcting me on the word fire .
Steele’s term will be up and someone else will take his place. That’s how it works. No one is scared to remove him and it hasn’t happened in a while to any party leader.
They are having people bypass the RNC when they donate money so it is safe to assume they can not be happy with the poor job he has done . If they were not
scared they would remove him before losing any donations .
Steele has been nothing but a joke and I know of no other party leader that spent a dollar and nine cents for every dollar they raise and had the nerve to represent
their party as the conservative party.
Then again this may be what republicans really mean when they claim to be conservative .
Steele is the token black of the Republican party and the little conservative plan back fired. don’t try to play word games and pass it off as “no one is scared of him”. He is a joke but he is the best joke on the conservative party and the entire party knows they will shoot themselves in the foot if they remove him and still want to reach out to the “black vote”. Just as do the Dems with obama.
