What the *&%$#! is wrong with these guys?

Running the numbers indicates the GOP are actually correctly marshalling their strength, since there are more racist white folk than all the black vote in America.

Why suck up to Black folk who would vote Republican only if Abraham Lincoln could be raised from his grave versus courting a greater number of dumb, ignorant whites who are brainwashed into thinking that Black men want their jobs and women.

kuvasz wrote:

Running the numbers indicates the GOP are actually correctly marshalling their strength, since there are more racist white folk than all the black vote in America.

Why suck up to Black folk who would vote Republican only if Abraham Lincoln could be raised from his grave versus courting a greater number of dumb, ignorant whites who are brainwashed into thinking that Black men want their jobs and women.

Your ignoring the fact that the Republicans are pissing off homosexuals, Latinos and Asians as well.

If you piss of too many people, you lose elections.

"I think it is a terrible mistake," former House speaker Newt Gingrich said in a telephone interview yesterday. "I did everything I could to convince them it was the right thing to do, [but] we are in this cycle where Republicans don't talk to minority groups," he said.

Someone should tell these guys.

Who voted seems to have mattered in the 2004 midterm elections.

Politics in Black and White
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 24, 2007

....Consider voting in last year's Congressional elections. Republicans, as President Bush conceded, received a "thumping," with almost every major demographic group turning against them. The one big exception was Southern whites, 62 percent of whom voted Republican in House races.

And yes, Southern white exceptionalism is about race, much more than it is about moral values, religion, support for the military or other explanations sometimes offered. There's a large statistical literature on the subject, whose conclusion is summed up by the political scientist Thomas F. Schaller in his book "Whistling Past Dixie": "Despite the best efforts of Republican spinmeisters to depict American conservatism as a nonracial phenomenon, the partisan impact of racial attitudes in the South is stronger today than in the past."

Republican politicians, who understand quite well that the G.O.P.'s national success since the 1970s owes everything to the partisan switch of Southern whites, have tacitly acknowledged this reality. Since the days of Gerald Ford, just about every Republican presidential campaign has included some symbolic gesture of approval for good old-fashioned racism. Thus Ronald Reagan, who began his political career by campaigning against California's Fair Housing Act, started his 1980 campaign with a speech supporting states' rights delivered just outside Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were murdered. In 2000, Mr. Bush made a pilgrimage to Bob Jones University, famed at the time for its ban on interracial dating. And all four leading Republican candidates for the 2008 nomination have turned down an invitation to a debate on minority issues scheduled to air on PBS this week....

Yet if the marchers at Jena reminded us that America still hasn't fully purged itself of the poisonous legacy of slavery, it would be wrong to suggest that the nation has made no progress. Racism, though not gone, is greatly diminished: both opinion polls and daily experience suggest that we are truly becoming a more tolerant, open society.

And the cynicism of the "Southern strategy" introduced by Richard Nixon, which delivered decades of political victories to Republicans, is now starting to look like a trap for the G.O.P....