Again with all the nonsense that somehow the Republican Party needs to come up with some sort of a minority strategy. So I guess some would now advocate that sell our souls, desert our principles and retreat from our values all in an effort to somehow convince today’s entitlement consuming minorities that we have no problem, whatsoever, with that and that we’ll be happy to give to them the same things that the Democrats do, if only they’ll elect us. I’m always told that black, and Hispanic as well, voters are so conservative, and as such they are natural Republican constituents. And yet they reliably vote Democrat election after election, easily forsaking their supposed religion in exchange for near endless government goodies.
And while some Republicans continue in the attempt to convince themselves, and others, that Mitt Romney’s defeat simply stemmed from inadequate turnout, nearly just as many others are out loudly making the claim that it actually resulted from his failure to attract more votes from minorities. One of those now floating this lack-of-minority-support theory appears to be Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel. "What ought to scare the GOP is this: even with higher GOP turnout in key states, even with Mr. Obama shedding voters, Democrats still won," she writes. "Mr. Obama accomplished this by tapping new minority voters in numbers that beat even Mr. Romney's better turnout."
Now Ms. Strassel’s claim, notwithstanding, I would argue that Romney lost the election for the very simple reason that he got fewer votes than McCain did, as well as the fact that 14 Million people who voted in 2008 chose to sit out 2012. According to Ms. Strassel, Republicans must fight to gain the support of these minority voters. She says. "That, for the record, was the GOP's real 2012 turnout disaster. Elections are about the candidate and the message, yes, but also about the ground game." The Romney campaign didn’t have a strong grassroots strategy toward Hispanics, she says. Indeed, the Republican ground game for Hispanics constitutes a "mind-boggling failure," Strassel writes.
"The GOP doesn't campaign in those communities, doesn't register voters there, doesn't knock on doors. So while pre-election polling showed that Hispanics were worried about Obama policies, in the end the only campaign that these voters heard from — by e-mail, at their door, on the phone — was the president's." Also according to Ms. Strassel, it wouldn’t take much of a shift in minority-voter preferences to turn elections the GOP’s way. She also goes on to say, "The GOP might see that as the enormous opportunity it is, rather than a problem." Barry beat Romney among Hispanics 71 percent to 27 percent, among blacks 93 percent to 6 percent, and among Asians 73 percent to 26 percent.
It’s pretty much an obvious fact that the black community today, quite literally, lays in shambles. The one big reason, if not the primary reason, for that is their decades long history of voting Democrat. Now wouldn’t you think, that for no other reason than out of pure self-preservation, blacks would be deserting the Democrat Party in droves? And to say that blacks only voted for Barry because his was the only campaign they heard from is really pretty naïve, even for someone from the Wall Street Journal. Let’s face it, this time around there was one big reason that blacks voted for Barry. RACE! Yup, they voted for Barry for absolutely no other reason that because Barry is black. In case Ms. Strassel didn’t notice, Romney was WHITE!
So, just how stupid does one need to be to put something as trivial and insignificant as the race of a particular candidate above the much more important issues such as our crushing unemployment rate, especially for minorities or our staggering debt, both of which have a snowball effect on the ability of ALL Americans to enjoy some level of prosperity. It should be obvious to everybody that entitlement programs in this country are out of control. Even those who have spent time as recipients should be able to see that. But hey, at least they don’t have to go to work every day. This is the malignant mentality that has been introduced throughout the minority community, and it’s one that is likely to prove very difficult to eradicate.
Hell, I’d like to not have to work everyday, and still get a check from the government for not doing so or, that nice big fat ‘refund’ check that I see so many get every year even though they pay absolutely nothing in income taxes. But look folks, it just isn’t sustainable, it can’t last. It’s not gonna last. So I think the time has now come for us to re-evaluate things in an effort to find out just what kind of a country we’ve become. And as I have said before, if those in our various minority communities are too stupid to recognize the fact that the light at the end of the tunnel is nothing more than a train speeding in their direction, there isn’t going to be much that those in the Republican Party can say, or do, to convince them of that fact!
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