Posted by
Gamecock on Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:00:31 AM
Adam C's REDHOT SC: Black Voter Outreach emphasized some positive for the GOP results of a recent survey of Black South Carolinians.
That's good, and I'm not surprised given Republican Governor Mark Sanford's public color blind treatment of Blacks as adults, as opposed to the condescending pandering by the Democratic Party's presidential nominees and the national Democratic Party who treat them like helpless children.
But let's also look at a very disturbing cold hard fact:
The report notes that only 45 of the more than 650 respondents in the survey identified themselves as Republicans...which is statistically insignificant from a polling perspective ...
45 republican blacks out of 650.
Let that sink in.
As a 20 year SC activist Democrat mostly in SC, converted to the GOP based on conservative principles, I reject pandering to Blacks. They can and should be won over to our side based on the truth and results of our policies and principles.
But I think that message could be more effectively delivered by a black person, and more specifically a black man.
Call me crazy, but don't accuse me of pandering when I say that we must put a Black man on the ticket in 2008. Preferably J.C. Watts, but Steele would also be good.
I do not advocate watering down our message. Heck, I'm for beefing it up.
Many here at RS have objected to my idea by comparing it to democrat party affirmative action quotas.
I reject that charge.
The VP slot is often, if not always, used to better get the message across to some constituency, whether it be regional or ideological.
Blacks are a constituency that we have been unsuccessful in reaching. We need to reach them and we have qualified black men that can do it.
I used to hate hearing fellow democrats calling all republicans racist when I was a democrat and I hate it all the more now.
J.C. Watts on the ticket would destroy that charge. No one exposed to Watts in a campaign would be able to believe that he is anyone's fool, and he can reach the Black values and war hawk voters we deserve.
Moreover, we would have a chance at destroying the intellectually and morally bankrupt and useless party the National Dem party has become.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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