"Legions of Republican activists and leaders are under the impression that promenading non-whites in front of the camera is the ticket to increasing the GOP's pitiful share of the black vote. Despite this tactic having failed time and time again, the miserable track record has not deterred the zeal of party window-dressers."
I'm from Maryland. I hope that Steele becomes our Senator. I that Democrat Kweisi Mfume, former President of the NAACP is going to run. I really hope that Mfume doesn't become our Senator. Mfume is like Jesse Jackson.
Steele would make an excellent Senator.
Yeah, who the hell writes these things, and is there really much chance of winning a seat in MD or VT? I doubt it.
If the GOP keeps putting up middle of the road RINO's who are sometimes indistinguishable from liberals, than it'd be no surprise for them to lose elections.
"Prospects for a Republican pick up in Vermont could be better than expected if there is a split in the liberal vote assuming a Democratic candidate and Socialist At-Large Congressman Bernie Sanders both make the ballot."
From what I have read, the Democratic party in Vermont is planning to endorse Sanders. So the liberal vote won't split.
It's funny how our 'window dressing' (Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Clerance Thomas) all reached higher levels than prominant black Democrats. The three most powerful African-Americans in the last several years are all GOPers. That is shocking considering when about 35% of the Democratic votes come from African-Americans. How are these 35% represented in Democratic Party????
There is an element of truth in that, but it overstates the truth - which is that, other things being equal, Republicans would like to nominate a conservative black. In that sense, Republican voters are true affirmative action voters.The "miserable track record" of which he speaks is, I would say, essentially that of one man - Alan Keyes. A man of undoubted talent who has managed to put off as many voters as he attracts, leaving him with only the base Republican vote, or something like it.
I was amazed at Keyes' defensive tone on the "carpet bagger" issue last year. It was entirely defensible that the Illinois GOP go out of state to get a candidate on short notice after the Democrats had violated the legitimate privacy rights of the GOP incumbent by prying divorce records out from their sealed status. The Democrats behaved dishonorably, and that should have been the only issue in the campaign, not whether Keyes was a legitimate candidate for the Illinois seat.
The comparison should have been with the NJ Supreme Court inserting Frank Lousenberg as a new candidate for the Democrats in the '02 Senate race, for no other reason than that the legitimate Democratic candidate was tanking in the polls (and resigned under pressure, without any admission that he was - and was known by his party as - a crook). The difference in Illinois was that invidious "information" was leaked about the incumbent of illegitimate provenance - information which the Republican Party of Illinois should not have been ashamed to admit that it had not known. And that, if my information is correct, the Republican Party of Illinois had not had to bend any Illinois law in order to put Mr. Keyes' name on the ballot.
Based on recent news and reports regarding his behavior, I no longer think he switched out of convenience.
He seems to be losing his mental health and mental faculties, his behavior is now quite odd and strange. He should resign and seek help.