The real problem with Rand Paul’s outreach to blacks is that it is a marginal loser. The effort made to take the black vote from 95% democratic to 91% democratic will lose more votes than 4% of the total black turnout in defections or abstentions from other, much larger voting constituencies. It’s simply not worth it.
IMHO, the real problem with Rand Paul's outreach to blacks is that it is blatant false pandering, even cozying up to the Rev Al. He would do better to partner with Ben Carson on real long term solutions. The socialism practiced by democrats has been horrible for the Black community.
Interesting that it is also Rand's MO for pandering to the gOpE with his pal Mitch.
We’re far more effective when we do it ourselves as private citizens. I got sick of watching the GOP flounder and flail around with outreach and started working on it on my own.
Now I’ve got several black conservative friends who are primarily small businessmen in Detroit. These are people who recognize that democrats destroyed Detroit and that conservative republicanism is the only hope of bringing it back.
I’ve had these people come to my little town to show them that we don’t have a police force because we don’t need one. We’ve got rich and poor living side by side with no envy or mistrust. These are lessons that they can take back and talk to their neighbors about.
I think black conservatism is on the rise.
The real problem is that it does nothing to increase the GOP share of the White vote, which is the key to permanent GOP majorities.