Posted on 05/29/2013 9:22:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Any conservative, who thinks E.W. Jackson winning Virginia's 2013 Republican Lieutenant Governor nomination is a good thing, needs to have his or her head examined. A former marine, lawyer and minister, Jackson has made incendiary remarks in the past about gays, blacks and Democrats and yet refuses to retract anything he has said.
This “firebrand” won’t help the Republican ticket of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for Governor and Mark Obenshain for Attorney General in a state that has become more purple than red and in which the race for governor remains rancorous and tight. Jackson referred to gays and lesbians as “sick” and “perverted” people and compared homosexuality to pedophilia. Defending traditional marriage is one thing; encouraging hate is another.
Jackson assailed Democrats for being “anti-God” and said Planned Parenthood “has been far, far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was.” Blacks who choose to have abortions do so willingly. Blacks like Emmett Till who were tortured, lynched and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan had no say in their deaths. There is no comparison between the two and I don’t understand how a black Republican like Jackson could make such a comment.
Slavery and the Civil Rights movement was one of the worst times in American history. Democrats and Republicans diminish the historical significance of both using such preposterous analogies. But when black Republican’s like Jackson make these comments to woo black voters, it does the opposite. Blacks tune out conservatives like Jackson as loony.
Telling black liberals they are slaves on a planation or any derivative thereof doesn’t make blacks want to hear the conservative message of economic empowerment through education (school choice), less taxation and less government. I’ll say it again, conservatives need to end the slave talk. That is, talk about the Democrat Party’s history of fighting for slavery, segregation and secession and how even today Democrat policies keep blacks in segregated, failing public schools and falling down America’s economic ladder.
Jackson’s excuse for his offensive comments was he made them as pastor of Exodus Faith Ministries, the church he founded but now as a candidate he vowed only to about jobs and the economy. But Jackson is still the same person. As a native Virginian, born and raised in Richmond, I know something’s wrong when the Richmond Times-Dispatch, one of the most conservative paper’s in the country, is daily deriding Jackson as a right-wing nut.
“Note to aspiring Republican politicians: When Ken Cuccinelli says you have gone too far, you might want to take a few steps backward,” wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch May 24, 2013 editorial page.
The GOP ticket should be unified in its message. Instead Jackson is an unwelcome distraction causing more harm than good. Cuccinelli has been mum on his running mate. Pictures of the three GOP candidates convey a chilliness between Cuccinelli and Jackson. For conservatives who need their memories jogged, after decades of Virginia voting Republican in presidential elections, President Obama won Virginia in 2008 and again in 2012. Mitt Romney lost because he lost the minority vote to Obama. Looking at these results, not to mention Tim Kaine’s victory over George Allen in Virginia’ 2012 Senate race, one would think Republicans in the state would learn their lesson and nominate candidates that would attract -- and not repel -- more voters.
As political analyst Larry Sabato said: “Cuccinelli brought this problem on himself.” Cuccinelli successfully got the Virginia GOP to change the nomination rules from a primary to convention format to ensure his victory over Lt. Governor Bill Bolling for the gubernatorial nomination before Bolling decided not to run. Fewer conservatives voted in the convention than would have voted in a primary. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reminded readers, “Jackson came in fourth in a 2012 primary for the Senate and probably would have fared about the same this time around.”
In a May 28, 2012, letter to the editor, John Bloom, E.W. Jackson’s Newport News, Va. coordinator wrote “Jackson is a uniter.” (More like a divider my mother laughed.) Describing how Jackson bested seven other candidates for the Lt. Governor nomination, Bloom gushed, “Something special was happening.” I’d argue disastrous. Nominating a candidate who has a record of preaching hate toward Americans isn’t going to win the GOP votes in Virginia or anywhere.
I’ll say this again for thousandth time, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election for many reasons but one was Romney’s “willful neglect “of minority voters. Republicans need to lean in to more Americans with compelling candidates. Jackson isn’t one of them.
During a recent visit to a Virginia women’s Republican club, a few white conservatives mentioned Jackson to me, assuming I would like him because he’s a black conservative like me. I didn’t know who Jackson was. But what I find ironic is the same Republicans blasting black liberals for only voting for Obama because he’s black expect me to do the same with Jackson. Candidates matter and I don’t vote on race.
Many Republicans still believe they can win elections ignoring the black vote. Blacks and whites make up the largest proportion of the electorate. Latinos are trailing both groups because many are in the US illegally and ineligible to vote. In 2012, for the first time blacks voted at a higher rate than any other minority group.
Aside from the Jackson fiasco, I have read precious little about Cuccinelli taking his message beyond Virginia’s white electorate. With polls showing an exceedingly close race between Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, every color vote will count in Virginia. Have Virginia Republicans learned any new tricks? If Jackson is the best they’ve got, then the GOP is more doomed than I thought.
And Gays, Blacks, and Democrats have never said anything rancourous about Republicans?
Is this Crystal Wright, or Krystal Ball?
Crystal needs to do a little rethinking. Or at least some thinking.
FROM THE ARTICLE: Blacks who choose to have abortions do so willingly. Blacks like Emmett Till who were tortured, lynched and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan had no say in their deaths.
The aborted blacks had no more choice than Till. Duh.
This message approved by the GOPe and other assorted Kapo Republican quislings.
Uh...you're comparing apples and oranges there, slick. Emmitt Till is the baby in the first scenario.
Confidential to Ms Wright, you are looking at the wrong end of this. Emmett Till may have had no say in his death but neither did the Black baby. That's the point.
Interesting to watch people run away as fast as they can at the slightest hint of discomfort.
I’m not saying Jackson shouldn’t be wise in his public comments, but if telling the truth feels like hell, then I say Jackson ought to give them hell.
Uhhhh, the black babies who are the victims of abortion don't "do so willingly" and suffer a fate pretty much the same as Emmett Till. This author isn't bright at all and I wonder how they ever got published by TownHall.
I have no confidence in the VA GOP, but I would vote for all three nominees were I a Virginian.
The biggest roadblock to his election will be the Dims candidate, a likable IT Indian guy who worked for Kaine and Obama. I think he will get more votes than McCaullif.
....she says that like it's a bad thang.........
Jackson assailed Democrats for being “anti-God”
Truth. I'm sure it hurts, but it's true; the demonicRATs proved it at last year's national convention.
Planned Parenthood “has been far, far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was.”
Again, true. Planned Barrenhood in fact specifically targets black babies for extermination.
Blacks who choose to have abortions do so willingly.
Yes, many black women are complicit in the genocide of black babies.
Blacks like Emmett Till who were tortured, lynched and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan had no say in their deaths.
Neither do black babies murdered by the hundreds of thousands in America's abortuaries annually.
There is no comparison between the two
Yes, there is, and Planned Barrenhood is worse than the KKK.
d I don’t understand how a black Republican like Jackson could make such a comment.
Simple. He can handle the truth. You can't. Sucks to be you.
Slavery and the Civil Rights movement was one of the worst times in American history.
Yet both pale in comparison to the ongoing genocidal abortion regime.
Blacks tune out conservatives like Jackson as loony.
Blacks, or anyone else, who does so are idiots.
It is EXACTLY this type of thinking that has turned Virginia into a blue state. Once we learn this pertinent political fact and stop nominating D-lites as GOP candidates, then we won't ever have to worry about the Chuck Robbs, Tim Kaines, and Mark Warners of the world wreaking their havoc on the Commonwealth again.
If you ask me, Jackson should be the nominee for Governor and Cuccinelli the candidate for Lt. Governor. Where is John Dalton when you need him?
It’s thinking like this that gives us ‘moderate’ (i.e. RINOS, squishes) Repub candidates requiring us to hold our noses in order to vote for them.
I don’t know who Crystal Wright is, but I do know she is an idiot...........
From the American Thinker:
The Virginia GOP snubbed the unwelcome advice of Karl Rove urging Republicans across the country to nominate uninspiring moderates without an agenda.
The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) will run for November:
Current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for Governor
Bishop E.W. Jackson for Lieutenant Governor, and
Virginia State Senator Mark Obenshain for Attorney General.
The nomination of African-American, enthusiastically and loudly Christian Bishop E.W. Jackson for lieutenant governor was the biggest surprise. Jackson offers the most intriguing dynamics heading into the 2013 general election. Jackson will not only stir up the Virginia elections but may also challenge Barack Obama nationally. However, Obama shockingly won Virginia in 2012, presumably with Democrats’ new, high-tech voter turn-out systems that may once again be a factor in Virginia in 2013.
Ken Cuccinelli, as a national conservative hero, was unopposed for governor. Current Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling dropped out, possibly contemplating running as an Independent in the mold of Florida’s Charlie Crist in 2010, who realized he could not win against Marco Rubio in the Florida primary. It is widely perceived that Bill Bolling could not compete against Ken Cuccinelli because the nomination was by convention.
For attorney general, Mark Obenshain defeated Rob Bell on the first ballot. Obenshain was elected to the senate of Virginia in 2003, where he quickly became a standard-bearer for conservative policies and a leader on property rights, school choice, family values, and government reform. For twenty-five years Mark practiced law in Harrisonburg and in Central Virginia.
WHAT’s NOT TO LIKE FOR A CONSERVATIVE?
What kind of crap is this???!!
During a recent visit to a Virginia women’s Republican club, a few white conservatives mentioned Jackson to me, assuming I would like him because he’s a black conservative like me. I didn’t know who Jackson was. But what I find ironic is the same Republicans blasting black liberals for only voting for Obama because he’s black expect me to do the same with Jackson. Candidates matter and I don’t vote on race.
Honey, you ain't no "black conservative."
Aw, c’mon, Crystal! Get with the program! Vote for the R!
You CAN support the Republican candidate, right, Crystal?
Crystal? Hello?
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