I’m saying Republicans will need to find a way to appeal to them. They have no choice.
If it involves compromising on principle, I'd rather lose. I don't know aboaut you, or anybody else, but I am a conoservative first, and a Republican only so long as they are my best shot.
This is not hard math. Latinos and African-Americans are both demographics to be mined by the GOP, but the party elite have been content to ignore for some time. Latinos would be easy to sway on social issues due to their Catholic faith and economic issues as many Latinos are self employed small businessmen. Similarly the African-American community is fairly conservative on issues of life and marriage... but the GOP ignored these people at their own peril.
There’s a reason the Obama administration moved fast to freeze, then destroy Republican candidates like Herman Cain and Rick Santorum. Both candidates were articulate and were able to present clear Conservative messages on social issues. Obama feared both because Cain presented a pigment problem, and Santorum presented a Catholic problem.
Imagine Herman Cain taking the stage on the evening of the GOP convention floor, laying out a clear, fiscally Conservative message to the country. Suddenly MSNBC and the MSM look stupid if they try to paint the GOP as racist. Imagine Cain speaking at the NAACP... you don’t think that would have moved the meter at all. Sure Obama would have won that demographic decisively, but there’s a big difference between 92% and 83%.
Santorum would have been able to address the “War on Women” in very clear and decisive terms and would have presented the Obamacare HHS mandate in clear terms which would definitely have swayed the Catholic vote. Romney danced around this issue. He talked about it in the primaries, but once he won the nomination he referred to it in very oblique terms like “religious liberty” rather than calling out the mandate and blasting away at the artificial “War on Women.”
I doubt the party learns its lesson, but who knows.
Yancy