Republicans Debate Candidates’ Decision to Skip Forum on Minority Issues

As the Democrats debated last night in New Hampshire, a debate broke out about the decision of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls to skip a televised forum tonight that focuses on issues important to black and Hispanic voters.

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None of the leading Republican candidates plan to attend the forum, which the television host Tavis Smiley will moderate at Morgan State University in Maryland and which will be broadcast live on public television. All the leading Democratic candidates attended a similar debate moderated by Mr. Smiley in June at Howard University in Washington.

does this mean, as suspected for so long, that Republicans are racist at the core? read on...

Instead of attending the televised forum, which has been in the works for months, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mitt Romney are scheduled to be in California, Fred D. Thompson in Tennessee and Senator John McCain in New York.

proof positive that Rudy is mean-spirited, Mitt is a Mormon piece of shit, Fred is a John Birch Society card-carrier like his Reagan nemesis, and McCain is still an asshole who is out of touch with reality.

“I’m very disappointed by it,” said Michael Steele, the chairman of Gopac, an organization that tries to groom Republican candidates, who said he had spent months trying to have all the candidates to attend the forum. “The hope was that it would be a chance for these guys to get out there and have a direct conversation with African-Americans and minorities across the country and lay out their visions.”

duuhhh... and what vision is that???

Mr. Steele said that shunning the debate could not only harm the party’s prospects with black voters, but with independent voters, as well.

“It’s hard enough as a black Republican to stand up in the community and say, ‘Trust me, these guys really do care,’ and then, when given the opportunity to show that, these folks don’t see the follow- through,” said Mr. Steele, the first African-American to win statewide office in Maryland when he was elected lieutenant governor, as a Republican.

just goes to show that Mike Steele is one of those see-no-evil, hear-no-evil black republicans. Is being a Republican that important and necessary for him to make it to the top in Maryland?

A Republican debate on Univision, the Spanish-language television network, was canceled this month because Mr. McCain was the only leading candidate to agree to attend. (The top Democratic candidates, by contrast, did debate on the network.)

McCain had to placate the Mexicans, he's from Arizona. If he didn't, he'd be out of a job.

The decision to skip the forum tonight was criticized in an editorial in The Washington Times, a conservative-leaning newspaper, that said, “It is striking that the Republican front-runners believe that some run-of-the mill fund-raiser is more important than building up their relationships with black and Hispanic voters, groups who flock to the Democratic Party in droves.”

In this day and age of needing zillions to run for Prez, fund-raising is job #1 in politics. Who the fuck are u kidding?

Donald E. Scoggins, the president of Republicans for Black Empowerment, said: “We feel that they’re losing a great opportunity to bring to the black community views that we feel, if they were aired, would go a long way toward dispelling the myths involving Republicans and the black community.” And he said he worried that if the Republican Party did not adapt it would find itself increasingly out of step with the changing demographics of the nation: “I feel that the Republicans cannot continue to send subliminal massages to the base when it comes to dealing with race,” Mr. Scoggins said.

Obviously, the problem here is that the black Republicans continue to delude themselves into believing the GOP candidates are going to talk to minority America. They can't! Because they are committed to the BASE of the party: those patriots of Anglo-American power, and that damn sure don't mean you niggers, kikes, spics, and chinks.

This is the BASE that Nixon appealed to who he called the "Silent Majority" in 1968. The BASE, who as the Silent Majority was also the White People's Party in the South, the Neighborhood Improvement Committe that came out when a black family moved on the whites-only block, the BASE who is the KKK, the BASE who is the right-wing, the BASE who wants that Reaganesque, pre-1960 perfect white world, the BASE who wants to turn back the clock, push "family values", push "law and order" (enter Giuliani and Thompson), the BASE who wants to rule the world with their "American Way" value system (enter McCain), the BASE that doesn't want an America with minority groups anywhere in sight at all.

Oh, don't misunderstand us, they say, we're not racist. You niggers, uh we mean minorities can exist in our great melting pot of a country, just stay in your ghettos, or in the Blue states, or in New York or DC or Hollywood or whereever you fuckers live, just stay out of our America, our homes, our political party, our business community and just leave "OUR" country alone!

Is the GOP inherently a racist political ideology? Well, if you know or recall anything about the Reagan Revolution (which is really the Barry Goldwater Revolution combined with the Southern strategy, which was to grab whites disenchanted with their Democratic Party who ran for the hills to the GOP once civil rights dominated the Dems in the 1960s, even though Nixon created Affirmative Action) knows that the Silent Majority still very much exists.

They are the same angry whites who were pissed when they saw a Honda or Toyota on their streets in the 70s, who were pissed when they realized most of their oil was coming from the Arabs in the 80s, who were pissed when the U.S. has to borrow money from Japan in the 90s and now China in the 2000s to keep the economy going, who are really pissed at seeing all these Mexicans and Haitians and Middle Easterners and Indians over here (but not the Irish and Russians and Eastern Europeans who also came) and taking their jobs, who want 'their' America the fuck back!

Is it any wonder then that the U.S., a nation that for years has been piercing the sky for higher moral ground than the rest of the planet supposedly has, starts off the 21st century talking about "killing them" (as in Bin Laden, Saddam, Amadinijad and Chavez, just to name a few)?

But the question one must ask is if these same angry people are aware the GOP has its own political agenda that only stands to benefit the richest and most powerful of them, including its rewards to the benefit of the politicians involved?

If you still have to ask the question, you're either in total denial or just asleep behind the wheel.