More Blacks Run As Republicans in South

[AmyStrange]

More Blacks Run As Republicans in South
Mon Jun 14, 1:42 PM ET
By DICK PETTYS, Associated Press Writer

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040614/ap_on_el_ge/black_republicans&e=3
ATLANTA - Herman Cain is a well-to-do black businessman with a strong belief that the Democratic Party that blacks embraced during the civil rights struggle has swung too far to the left.

That is why he is running for the U.S. Senate this year as a Republican.

More black Republicans are running for office in Georgia this year than ever before, and black candidates in other Southern states are also finding that declaring for the GOP is more accepted than it was just a few years ago.

It is a small shift that Republican activists say could pay big dividends if it continues.

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[Neoplatonist]

1. Black Republicans, the ultimate oxymoronic statement of all time

[mitchum]

2. More Blacks are running as republicans, but they're not...

getting elected. The target audience is not falling for that nakedly cynical ploy.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. The Colin Powell ploy...

It's like going to the bank.

There are two lines of African-American candidates, line D and and line R. If your priority is to get to the front of the line fast, why would you voluntarily stand in the long line?

As JC Watts how it feels after you get to the front of the line, and the Republicans still treat you like shit.

[NEOBuckeye]

4. Don't discount this. If Bush falls hard this fall, the GOP could move Left

A Kerry rout of Bush in November could very well spell the collapse of the GOP's present leadership by the Reactionary Christian Right and the "ex-liberal" Neo-Conservatives, represented by the likes of Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and John Ashcroft. A more "Center-Right" alliance of leaders, such as John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger could emerge in the aftermath with a plan to broaden the party's base and its' appeal. Although the Republican Party isn't likely to become the "Big Tent" that the Democratic Party is, it's entirely possible that more African-Americans and Hispanics, particularly those who have been successful in the corporate world, will find themselves more welcome in the party.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Herman Cain is also a right wing nutball...

I heard the freeps drooling over the thought of him in the senate a few months ago. There's a reason that African Americans don't run as Republicans and that they vote 90% democratic.