No Takers May 20, 2008
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GOP fails to recruit minorities
Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.
At a time when Democrats are poised to knock down a historic racial barrier with their presidential nominee, the GOP is fielding only a handful of minority candidates for Congress or statehouses — none of whom seem to have a prayer of victory.
Of course not. A political party that built its successes on the hopes and fears of white working middle class voters, and still gets virtually all of its votes from whites even though the party repeatedly flips white voters the bird, won’t see any of those voters embrace black and Hispanic Republican candidates.
In related news, political pundits are surprised by how many black Republicans are endorsing Obama for President. It doesn’t surprise me. Not only can racial loyalty explain it, most black “Republicans” aren’t really Republicans, and certainly not conservative. They only joined the Republican Party because there are so many black Democrats, that it takes a long time and a lot of dues-paying to become somebody. Since (1) There are so few black Republicans, and (2) The party establishment is spending an insane amount of resources to attract them, a black man or woman who cuts his or her teeth in the Republican Party will become a celebrity far sooner. So what if they have to feign a little bit of neo- or pseudo-conservatism every once in awhile. That they turn right around and “jilt” McCain for Obama only seems surprising to the people that run the Stuck-on-Stupid Party.
[...] The headline is oxymoronic. If they were really conservative, they wouldn’t be conflicted, the answer would be an easy no. Nevertheless, their equivocation does not surprise me; of course, you already knew that. [...]