I'm reading FreeRepublic's reaction to Steele's wish for a Hip-Hop GOP, and let me just say this:

[Bicoastal]

If I was a Republican right about now...



....I would not WANT to be a Republican right about now. They are SO screwed for the future, and they know it.

[saltpoint]

1. A couple weeks back Steele wanted Frank Sinatra Republicans. Now he's

calling for hip-hop Republicans.

What will it be next week -- Mongolian folk dance Republicans?

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Nope - I think I figured it out..

Yankovic Polka Republicans!

No, not this guy:



But this guy:

[saltpoint]

11. And can't you just picture Rick Santorum making a comeback on

the polka circuit?

Great post.

[Hawkeye-X]

19. Thanks!!

Good to see you around, OC! (and yes, I know who you are!)

[saltpoint]

26. Hey there. How the blue blazes are ya?

Good to see you, too.

[Berry Cool]

31. Hey, don't knock Frankie like that.

My parents were from his neighborhood!

[GinaMaria]

14. Repukes dancing the Tarantella?

Virginia Reel RepubliCONs?

They have lost it. Why do they make it so easy for comedians?

[saltpoint]

15. And now, dancing the Tarantella in A Minor, the hypnotic human

cyclone, CONGRESSMAN JOHN BOEHNER!

[GinaMaria]

18. LOL. I always think of Captain Hook

What music to think by captain?

A tarantella.


This is hilarious.
What music to GOTV for the gop?

Hip Hop of course
:rofl:

[saltpoint]

20. Yep. When they roll out the new street-savvy GOP we're going

to have to hold on for dear mercy.

[GinaMaria]

44. Can you die from laughing too hard? n/t

[Hieronymus]

51. Sinatra was always a Democrat until JFK decided not to stay at his house

in Palm Springs. That was enough to make him become a Republican.

[mikiturner]

2. I'm scared to ask for a link to read them

:scared:

[NYC_SKP]

10. No need to ask. Here:

:P

153 replies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189116/posts

46 replies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189270/posts

41 replies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189557/posts

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[texastoast]

27. Oh yeah, they are so screwn

And they are even admitting it.

[texanwitch]

34. That is some good reading.

One picture was really strange.

The little guy with almost no arms waving a knife.



Why did I go there, should have known better.

[Veruca Salt]

47. I saw that picture too and thought the same thing

Also should have known better... now where did I put my brain bleach?

[Joe the Liberal]

35. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Maaaaaaaan...........

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I read through a few of those, they are lost and utterly, utterly hopeless, what a great read. :rofl:

[TheBigotBasher]

49. Thanks for the links

This was especially pleasing



2008 election results

Ages 18-29 Obama 66% McCain 18%
Ages 30-44 Obama 52% McCain 29%
Ages 45-64 Obama 50% McCain 37%
Ages 65 up Obama 16% McCain 45%

The demographics are not good for the GOP

[ShadowLiberal]

50. LOL, I guess they don't care about being as culturally 'in' as dinosaurs

Just reading some of the replies there shows exactly why the GOP has burned it's bridges with the youth vote so badly.

One thing so consistent in the replies is people there saying they don't want to abandon conservative policies to try to remake the party, but that just shows how out of touch they really are to what the GOP's problems is. I mean look at the groups the GOP is doing the worst with/has rapidly lost ground with in recent years.

-Blacks
-Hispanics
-Young people
-Gays
-Muslims

Notice anything in common with all of these groups? The answer, they're all groups that the GOP has thrown under the bus, either for political reasons (from seeing something to gain at the time by doing it), or just because their base demanded they do it.

Blacks republicans screwed up on decades ago, republicans were the party of Lincoln, yet the GOP abandoned them in favor of a 'southern strategy'. At the time that may have helped them win elections more easily, but in the long run look at what they gave the democrats, African Americans are the most likely racial group to vote straight ticket democrat, they do so by a higher rate then any other race votes straight ticket for either party.

Muslims are a group that you'd think would be with the GOP from their social conservative agenda, and they were with the GOP in 2000. But then after 9/11 the GOP started to use hatred of Muslims for political gains, and abandoned Muslim Americans when they needed them most, so they abandoned the GOP. The GOP's attacks using fear and discrimination against Muslims was even visible in 2008, by calling Obama a Muslim, as if they were something horrible, when in fact only a small few are the radical terrorists. The democrats barely had to do anything at all to get the Muslim American vote. Of course there's very few Muslim Americans, so this didn't hurt the GOP that much.

Hispanics are another voting block the GOP had been making gains with, but then they burned it all away for nothing, and this one is especially painful considering how rapidly the Hispanic population is growing in America (IE, this one will hurt the GOP even more overtime if they don't fix things now). When it came to immigration reform the hardcore GOP base started to ranting against illegal immigrants (most of which were Hispanic) in such ways that their attacks even sounded racist at times. Hispanics weren't deaf to this. By caving into the hardcore GOP base the GOP has undone all the hard work Bush did with getting the Hispanic vote, and put themselves in an even worse position then they started in.

Gays are another group the GOP is doing horribly with. Is it any wonder that democrats win the gay vote by a 3 to 1 margin when your party drags gays through the dirt, telling people how horrible they are, and how gay marriage would ruin everything! In 2004 the GOP basically said they don't want the gay vote, heck Bush didn't even want the endorsement of the log cabin republicans, and a bunch of republicans said they weren't real republicans. Can you possibly be more unwelcoming to a certain group by telling them that supporting civil rights legislation to make them equal with everyone else in society makes them 'not real republicans'?

Young people are another group the GOP has burned a lot of bridges with. When you attack pop culture (something young people love) and compare Obama to Britney Spears, you're basically dissing the young generation. With young people the GOP doesn't seem to understand that the reason they're losing them is also because of their policies, that don't appeal to young people. Young people tend to very socially liberal, and over 2/3's of them support gay marriage, so when you're dragging hated minority groups through the dirt to score political points, like gays and Hispanics, don't expect it to work. The young generation is typically the quickest to support civil rights for persecuted minority groups (like African Americans a few decades ago), yet the GOP seems to be delusionally ignoring this fact in this insistence that no change in policy is needed to appeal to the young, just a change in messaging. Also hurting the GOP with the young is Bush and Clinton being freshest in young voters minds. Clinton brought peace and prosperity, Bush brought lots of failures and wars.

The lesson for the GOP? Maybe they should stop throwing persecuted minority groups under the bus whenever it seems like such a good idea in the short term at the time, while ignoring the long term implications. If the GOP wants to actually get competitive with groups like African Americans again then they have to start to go out of their way to do more for them, even if it may be unpopular at the time.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Are they questioning their Party's choice for Chairman?

Don't they see Steele's brilliance? :evilgrin:

[midnight]

4. Hip Hop and Newt Gingrich. I'm not seeing it.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Hip Hop and Arlen Specter

Now THAT's scary....

[givemebackmycountry]

21. Hip Hop and Haley Barbour

I'm thinking Hip Hop is HUGH! in Mississippi with the white Republican folk.

ooooohhhhh - really scary!

[saltpoint]

12. : )

[Ilsa]

17. Steele is looking for the MC Rove & Gregory RepubliCons. nt

[eleny]

5. We just watched the Pelosi documentary about the McCaine campaign

All those rednecks she interviewed for the doc? They aren't going to like this.

[Colobo]

23. All those people she interviewed make my cringe.

[Clio the Leo]

7. I still cannot believe the MSM has no picked up on the "one armed midget" remark.

I realize it was a busy news day and all. Maybe tomorrow when our President is not out basking in the glow of being the most popular guy on Earth. :)

[EraOfResponsibility]

24. LMAO!!!............n/m

[Still Sensible]

9. Freeper heads are exploding all over the place

the last thing most of them want is a bigger tent. Heck, many of them are pissed off the party has a black man at the helm now and have said so in no uncertain terms. They just want to keep their current coalition of fundamentalists, supply siders and neocons. Expand the party, hell no, they just want to find the next issue that they can use to scare some of the moderates and independents to come back their way.

[NYC_SKP]

13. They are not without a sense of humor, some of them freepers...

In one of the comments:

[Fleshdancer]

22. ROFLMAO!

Now THAT is funny!

Another freeper posted this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jpVm59Q7Xb0/Rz7c4ijZ1KI/AAAAAAAABWo/tx5zPlfQlRg/s320/Z+Karl+Rove+Dancing+0330webstory_rove1.jpg

Good job to both posters. These pics are hilarious. :thumbsup:

[glowing]

25. You never know.. it might be an infiltrator trying to make heads roll. LOL

[Berry Cool]

32. Oh,, that is TOO MUCH!!!!

I guess my virginity is lost. A Freeper finally made me laugh.

That pic is a keeper!

[qanda]

38. That was a pretty good one

I actually laughed out loud.

[Sultana]

42. Dipshit

[Fire1]

52. lmao!! Perfect!

[GinaMaria]

16. and in other news.... Steele becomes Obama's best friend. n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

28. In other words - The GOP had too many Whites. We need to dumb down to get more Hip Hop voters.

To: TADSLOS

In other words - The GOP had too many Whites. We need to dumb down to get more Hip Hop voters.

56 posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:59:06 AM by ohioman
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It is just so damn satisfying to see them go down in flames. Makes me all warm inside.

[Juche]

29. That is exactly what a political party of married white people in their 50s needs

More hip hop.

Abraham LinCool

[Berry Cool]

30. But it's damn entertaining after all these years of misery, isn't it?

Just grab a box of :popcorn: and enjoy the show.

[OnyxCollie]

33. Mitch McChinless, poppin' and lockin'.

Arlen Specter, droppin' mad stylez.
John Boehner, sportin' the bling bling grill.
Olympia Snowe, backin' that azz up.


I just made myself sick.

[genna]

40. LMAO!

Come on Olympia Snowe, backin' that azz up...

That is ear splittingly funny.

That is can't catch my breath because that is so sick funny.

[Fire1]

53. Funny as hell!! lol!

[old mark]

36. A Palin/Santorum ticket in 2012!

There's a bright future ahead for the GOPs!
(joke)





mark :puke:

[tabbycat31]

46. I'd rather vote for Rick Santorum's dog

that he had some hot man on dog action with. Only to learn later that Sarah Palin mistaked it for a wolf and shot it from a helicopter.

[tanyev]

37. Oh, here's a deep thinker:

He’s correct. The party has remained analogue. Just look at some of the posts on this site. You all have got allot of young, talented, energetic and ethnically diverse people within your party....why I am perpetually seeing old, fat, blue blazered caucasian faces (not that there’s anything wrong with that) is beyond me. Especially at the convention. Figure it out people.


Yeah, why IS that pretty much all you see at the conventions? Such a mystery....

[Brewman_Jax]

39. They have to be beside themselves

and absolutely livid. I love it! :rofl:

Imitating the people that they've been scapegoating for years. The irony is delicious! :D

[Vinca]

41. The hip hop scheme is one of the funniest ideas I've every heard.

I bet the late night talk show hosts are sending champagne and flowers to Michael Steele.

[Phx_Dem]

43. GOP + Hip Hop = Karl Rove's lameass rap dance. Memba that?

They'll be the laughingstock of the country. Oh wait, they already are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw

[sufrommich]

45. Freeper Hip Hop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8

[Exilednight]

48. Rove already went this route

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jpVm59Q7Xb0/Rz7c4ijZ1KI/AAAAAAAABWo/tx5zPlfQlRg/s320/Z+Karl+Rove+Dancing+0330webstory_rove1.jpg