Posted on 11/05/2014 4:26:43 AM PST by Raymann
For at least half a century, the party of Lincoln has battled charges that it is racist, sexist and anti-immigrant.
Today, voters from a conservative state made those arguments a little bit harder to make. In Utah, Mia Love became the first black Republican woman — and first Haitian American — elected to Congress.
For the GOP — a house divided that faces significant demographic hurdles to winning the White House in 2016 even as it celebrates President Obama’s shellacking — this was huge. A party threatened with extinction among African Americans and immigrants now has someone to brag about in Washington. In a wave election less about fresh Republican ideas than fervid disapproval of all things presidential, Love’s compelling personal story is an oasis. She’s not just a black face in what’s often described as a party full of angry old white men. She’s a path forward.
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This is definitely the Frosting on the Cake!
Go, Mia! GO! SO HAPPY! :)
Happy to see her win!
I’m happy too. However she will be labelled an Uncle Tom, a reverse racist, and a hater of her own party.
First BLACK congress WOMAN is a republican?! Where’s the news on that?! We beat them in both categories! Hah.
Great for her! How’s that war on women working out, Dems?
I love WaPo already sending the message out there...we know you’ve been the racist party but now we can say you’re totally racist just part of the way... Their schtick is tiring
I am so proud of Mia!
Go get ‘em, girl!
I was really happy to hear she won. However, I hope this is the last time she's identified this way. From now on she should only be referred to as Congresswoman Mia Love, R-UT.
So...Tim Scott isn't worth bragging about?
As conservatives, I would we were supposed to hate women and African Americans? I’m confused?!?!? As a 52 year old white male, the leadership and passion I see are coming from the African American candidates.
I hope and pray that more AA see what our party offers. Last time I checked, we weren’t espousing the extermination of the race via abortion.
Thank you, Lord!
IMHO
Thank you, Lord!
IMHO
i followed her campaign in 2012 and this time...i assure you she doesn’t want to be identified that way...
I agree with you and so happy she won.
Because the GOP has been too timid to call out the DIMS and the MSM on their lies.
That had better change quick. The voters have given Republicans one last chance. If they blow it this time, they're done as a major political party.
Mia said she doesn’t want to be known as the “ black woman “ . Just as an American .
Mia is the antidote to Maxine “Muddy” Waters. GOP, use her
image everywhere, she will chase the racism rap away from the GOP.
Yeah, because J.C. Watts, Allen West, and Elbert Guillory, to name a few, are white, I guess.
Good to know! Our side needs to push back against the unending divisiveness of the Left’s identity politics.
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