Democrats’ Worst Nightmare
I’ve written often about RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman’s outreach events and the effects that outreach is having. Bob Novak’s Townhall.com column offers proof that Mehlman’s efforts are paying off.
Richmond Myrick, the principal of Largo High School, is a registered Democrat in overwhelmingly Democratic Prince George’s County next to Washington, D.C. He has not been active politically and is not recorded as having made any contributions to candidates for federal office. Yet recently, he stood in the parking lot of Prince George’s Community College adjoining his school to introduce Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, whom he has endorsed for the U.S. Senate.
Myrick is African American, as are most students at Largo High. So is Steele. If enough non-political blacks follow Myrick’s course, Steele will become the first black Republican elected to the Senate in 32 years. That is the Democrats’ worst nightmare. Democratic dominance in Maryland has been based on maintaining a hammerlock over the state’s substantial African-American vote. Steele threatens that domination.
Alot of Democratic leaders heard about Mehlman’s efforts and ignored it. One who didn’t was Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s campaign advisor. She warned the DNC that this effort would have an effect. Howard Dean made his infamous remark that
“You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room?,” Dean asked to laughter. “Only if they had the hotel staff in here”
Hillary Clinton made her plantation comments. But they didn’t do a thing to connect with the concerns of black voters. That won’t win them continued support from the rising black middle class.
Democratic leaders were not happy when Steele, as running mate in 2002, helped pull even a mere 5 percent of the black vote for Robert Ehrlich, the winning Republican for governor. Running by himself for the Senate, Steele will surely do much better. His own surveys show 14 percent, with an upside potential of 44 percent. If Steele gets 25 percent of the black vote, he is probably the winner.
Forget that last sentence. If Steele wins 25 percent of the black vote, he will be Senator-Elect Steele. PERIOD. Not only that but perceptions about the GOP and minorities will change substantially. That isn’t saying that they’ll win a majority of black votes anytime soon but people will notice and behavior will change. Also worth noting is the belief amongst many Republicans that the Democrats will lose more face if they pick white Congressman Ben Cardin over former NAACP chairman Kweisi Mfume. I’m one of those who are convinced that’ll matter, too.
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May 29th, 2006 at 10:17 am
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May 29th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Mehlman is a jew bastard who hates white people and is actively working to ethnically cleanse white America.
He spoke in front of “La Raza” along with Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean.
All of you moronic assholes who still see this shit as “right vs. left” and republican vs. democrat are destroying this entire world.
You are actively participating in the jew-led ethnic cleansing of whites and arabs worldwide.
That you dare put Mehlman as a “good conservative” who will do ANYTHING good for our people is pissing on the ashes of all the dead white soldiers who died in jew wars on this Memorial Day.
Grow up you moronic, stupid, brainwashed morons. Try turning off your jew race mixing propaganda 24/7 jew tube. Diversity is codeword for white ethnic cleansing.
I hope the diverse, mulitradial hordes of low iq violent criminals physically attack your entire family.
You “kosher conservatives” are too stupid to realize that your churches, schools, government have been taken over by satanic jews who hate everything decent.
You just posted some bullshit about how a jew chairman of a political party running a black football player for Governor of Pennsylvania is a good thing. Move to Detroit or New Orleans and see how great nigger rule is you dumb, evil bastard.
May 29th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Wake, That type of hate-filled bigotry isn’t welcome here. Stay away with your idiotic diatribes. As for saying that our “churches, schools, government have been taken over by satanic jews”, that only shows the depths of your hate. The last time I read the Bible, Genesis specifically, God chose the Jews to be His chosen people. Are you saying that you know better than God who’s satanic and who isn’t?
Get the hell out of here and don’t come back.
May 29th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Oh god the whole jew conspircy thing again.
I posted this before so here it is again. Irish Conspiracy for World Domination
May 29th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Thank you, Gary. Wake almost had me wondering if my ancestry was responsible for every evil the world has ever known…like Hitler, for instance, or Pol Pot, or Stalin, or…
May 29th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Nice to see you guys dealing with anti-semetic bastards like him
and if he’s reading this, come try that again and i’ll educate your self righteous ass
Getting back on target, if steele and swann pull off victories the Republicans will have ledges to stand on the race issue and will finally make strong in roads as the messages of the ’spokespeople’ will fall on deaf ears