Obama was a horrible speaker and the only way he got through it all was because he was considered “black” (although, realistically speaking, he was only half African and had nothing in common with African Americans) and thus was deified by the media. Without that, Obama would have been nothing. He had no ideas except what were fed to him by his radical leftwing advisers, and because he was black, nobody ever challenged him on either the ideas or his comprehension of them.
However, even if the GOP were to run an authentic, brilliant American black, it wouldn’t count, because conservative African Americans have been read out of the “black race” by the Democrats. Conservative Hispanics are more numerous, so they haven’t quite been read out, but the MSM has marginalized them and is already beginning the campaign to make them disappear just as the blacks have done.
What the GOP has to do is to develop an economically and SOCIALLY conservative message (and not one that tries to be as much like the Dems as possible) and get some people who believe it to go out there and preach it...to everyone.
We didn’t lose because of social conservatism; we lost because nobody believed that the GOP presidential candidate believed in it.
I agree with you - Obama was and is a terrible speaker, even the tone of his voice is icky. And I agree that even if we had an all-Black party, it wouldn’t count, because we have let the Left frame and define everything.