Smoked Kemp
September 19th, 2007In response to the Republican Party’s Presidential candidates ditching events and forums sponsored by minorities, 1996 Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp says, “We sound like we don’t want immigration; we sound like we don’t want black people to vote for us. What are we going to do — meet in a country club in the suburbs one day? If we’re going to be competitive with people of color, we’ve got to ask them for their vote.”
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Making matters worse, some Republicans believe, is that the decision to bypass the Morgan State forum comes after all top GOP candidates save McCain declined invitations this month to a debate on Univision, the most-watched Hispanic television network in the United States. The event was eventually postponed.
“For Republicans to consistently refuse to engage in front of an African American or Latino audience is an enormous error,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), who has not yet ruled out a White House run himself. “I hope they will reverse their decision and change their schedules. I see no excuse — this thing has been planned for months, these candidates have known about it for months. It’s just fundamentally wrong. Any of them who give you that scheduling-conflict answer are disingenuous. That’s baloney.”
Former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman urged candidates to “reconsider this opportunity to lay out their vision and other opportunities in the future.”
Maybe Republicans will be more interested in minorities when the general election comes about but the truth is that the Republicans don’t care about minorities at this point because of the limited number of black Republicans that will be voting in the primaries. I, for one, can count them on two fingers, and they’ve both been Secretary of State for George W. Bush. Besides, they don’t want to antagonize the southern primaries, because we all know how brutal those can be if you’re “too close” to “black people.”
Now, to other business. Want to have your faith in government ruined? Here! The White House is doing all it can to cover up contracting fraud in the wars. And he wants to compare himself to Harry Truman? Harry would’ve never stood for that.