GOP 'embraces' black culture

[denem]

to dramatically build on the 4% who voted for them. I can't say how this will play with the good ol' boys down south, but has the party collectively lost its mind or just its bearings? Sarah Palin 2012!. An announcement brought to DU by Free Republic.

[Metta]

1. Man, how truthy is that?

... just saying.

[glowing]

2. I was talking about the republican party with my mother..

and the reality is, the people in their base are the one's who are UN-American. American means being a large country with different people from different areas of the world. We are a melting pot and we are not a "Christian Nation".. our founders weren't all crazy theologists.. and if people want to live in a country that is completely Theologically drive, they need to move and found one.. otherwise their are regions in the middle east that are similar to Theological in rule. As we can see, fundametalists, no matter what the religion, is dangerous to everyone.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. I believe that's how Strom put it...

That daughter was quite a revelation...

One could certainly say that what was done to her mother is quite in line with the traditional approach of the Republicans...

[genna]

4. If this Free Republic message hoped to have some effect, it would take Rush in hand

before Steele fails to convince AAs he can win.

Now here Steele places himself in a venue where D.L. and a predominantly black audience will have reason to agree. I think the sentiment is: if you are the man, be the man. The backtrack to that audience in lieu of Rush's hurt feelings WON'T convince that same black audience that he is in control of his damn self much less the Republican party. Also, it cuts to the reason most AAs are not impressed that Steele was voted in as the chairman of the RNC---NO REAL POWER.

Steele is in a pickle. He has a narcissistic Limbaugh personality baiting him on the radio about NOT DOING HIS JOB. Part of being the RNC Chairman is selling your message and your party! Where do you do that? Wherever people who are susceptible to your message are.

I am not interested in hearing the Republican talking points, but Rush is making him look like a weakling. How can he bring any additional AAs to the party's 4% if we perceive him as being a servant in his own house?

[BronxBoy]

6. He's toast in our community

Don't know how he can recover from adopting the persona of rap and then punking out when it mattered most.

[genna]

7. Brother man what does the 'persona of rap' mean?

And which phase of rapping are referring to:

the Ladies First Generation or

the Women ain't shit phase?


I will say that he completely humiliated himself by saying: I'm not REALLY the de facto head of the RNC. Rush you really are the man, not me. I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut.

[Marrah_G]

5. If by embracing them they mean:

Picking a black man born without a spine for their "real" leader to kick around like a stray puppy..... Then YES, YES, they are embracing black the black community......