I think you underestimate the support Steele might bring to a national election.
PS> He lost because the Maryland voters are racist!
Posted on 08/26/2008 2:24:29 PM PDT by presidio9
Things are supposed to be looking rosy for Democrats this November. But in case Barack Obama loses the Presidency, an excuse is all ready to go: America's too racist to elect a black man. Not even, in his Vice Presidential pick Joe Biden's inimitable description, one so "articulate and bright and clean."
This narrative has gained traction with the Democratic Presidential candidate's recent setbacks in the polls. We hear it from the convention crowd in Denver and liberals in the press. The older, poorer, white, often Hillary voter who sounds ambivalent about the Obama coronation is an enticing scapegoat.
"Call me crazy, but isn't it possible, just possible, that Obama's lead is being inhibited by the fact that he is, you know, black?" wrote John Heilemann in New York magazine earlier this month. "What makes Obama's task of scoring white votes at Kerry-Gore levels so formidable is, to put it bluntly, racial prejudice."
In this week's Newsweek (and on Slate), Jacob Weisberg reasoned that only some "crazy irrationality over race" could prevent Mr. Obama from winning the White House. If he does win, America will have reached post-prejudice Nirvana. "If Obama loses, our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth," Mr. Weisberg continued. "To the rest of the world, a rejection of the promise he represents wouldn't just be an odd choice by the United States. It would be taken for what it would be: sign and symptom of a nation's historical decline." Wow. Vote for Barack, or America is as irredeemable as many foreigners believe.
Part and parcel of this argument is that Republicans are bound to play the race card. The Democratic candidate made this case himself in late June. "They're going to try to make you afraid
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As much as I hate Gergin, a referrence to him really wouldn't have made a lot of sense here.
Agreed. I have voted for minority candidates for other elective offices. I have voted for women candidates for other elective offices. I would be happy to vote for a black or a woman candidate for president, if I agreed with their ideology and stands on the issues of the day.
I don’t feel obligated to vote for the first serious black presidential candidate to prove that I’m not racist. The logic doesn’t follow.
Republicans are voting for McCain because he’s a Republican (more or less), and because Obama’s a socialist.
Democrats are switching over to McCain because, well, maybe they don’t want to lose in Iraq, and maybe they don’t want to see a complete neophyte in the White House.
If race is a factor, I suppose its possible. These are Democrats, after all.
South Side of Chicago...............West Side of Chicago.......... Gary, Indiana.............. East St. Louis, Illinois....................Camden, New Jersey..........Newark, New Jersey............maybe even Chocolate City in New Orleans. There could be lots of anger at the outcome of the election.
I really hope and pray that it’s a clear solid victory for McCain, so that we don’t have to endure charges of racial problems in voting, ballot access, voting machines broken down, voter intimidation, or eventual lawsuits over counting and re-counting procedures. A lot of that will be avoided in a solid victory. If it’s a close election, expect the complaints and lawsuits to happen.
I think you underestimate the support Steele might bring to a national election.
PS> He lost because the Maryland voters are racist!
I am so sick of this race card crap.
They’ve been on the defensive for awhile. Obama has been getting slaughtered. They’ve got to return to a tried and true strategy that carried them a long way in the primaries, that America is a racist nation, too bigoted to elect a black man, and that penance can be paid by doing so.
It’s desperation.
I figured that.
i guess this means the RATS are the true racists then since real Republicans were never going to vote for that FPOS anyway...
The convention is beginning to take on the look of a defeat before the election.
That's what I was thinking. If they're already talking like this, is must be evident to them that they are going to lose.
The more the left plays the racist card the more they will energize antagonistic reaction. Lukewarm fence-sitters, who want to be fair minded, will be insulted by the implications of this attempt at intimidation and vote against Obama just to re-establish their right to vote as they see fit. To do otherwise would feel like submitting to thuggery and no American wants that.
If the 'rats keep this up they will guarantee a win for McCain, so let's by all means cheer them on.
“I agree that some people might not vote for him because of race, but there are also some who will vote for him precisely because of his race.”
I thought that Obama got extra Electorial votes just because he was black.
Obama will lose because he’s a liberal, not a black.
How do we know this? Because if a charismatic Clarence Thomas was running, we Freepers would joyfully vote for him.
How do we know this? Because many thousands of American soldiers have served under, and died following the orders of black senior officers.
How do we know this? Because it’s we conservatives who do not expect all blacks to vote uniformly. Democrats do.
If he should happen to win, you'll see riots the same places.
Republicans cannot be blamed for the fall of Obama in the polls. They were not going to vote for him anyway. That leaves Bolshecrats and independents where racism resides.
they are going to shite when he drops to 5-10 points down and just sits there till November
which I see as likely unless McCain freaks
the resentment from the Hillary old union fembot Left is strong
many will vote McCain because they despise him less
The older white people in the dem party, I would say 50 and older in the South and Midwest are not going to vote for him because of his race. Yes, the older dem party is racist. They voted against civil rights, created the welfare program that deliberately broke up the black family structure, they give the black areas the best education money can buy to keep them unemployable....basically the older dem party did what they could to keep the blacks enslaved and down and voting for them but it will never accept one ruling them.
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