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February 21, 2005
Black Republicans
The AJC has a useless discussion featuring "prominent" black Republicans on their editorial page today. Among the thing we learn from these black Republicans is that the Democratic Party in Georgia took a turn for the worse with the elections of 1990 (obviously they are referring to Zell Miller's election and Sam Nunn's unopposed re-election), that Armstrong Williams is a conservative that other blacks should look up to because he owned up to his sins right away, and that Creflo Dollar, that avatar of moral certitude, considers George Bush a role model. Maybe that's because Bush has raised so much money...
Anyway, the thing that's really ridiculous about this article is that you have this phenomenon (or whatever you want to call it) where something like 88% of black voters in Georgia vote for Democratic candidates. So, instead of convening a panel of black conservatives who are not Republicans to talk about why they haven't switched, you get 6 oddballs out of the 12% (one a perennial black Republican candidate, imagine convening a panel with Mac Barber to talk about Democratic party conceptions among white voters) to basically just gush about why the Republican party is so great.
I mean, this is totally ridiculous. Imagine that the AJC looked at the exit poll numbers and saw that only 23% of white voters in Georgia voted for Kerry. And they decided to do a panel discussion about why white voters won't vote for Democrats, and instead of finding middle of the road white Republicans and asking them why they haven't embraced the Democrats and what it would take for them to do it, they put together a forum featuring Nan Orrock and 5 other white intown liberals to just talk for an hour about how great the Democratic party is.
What a useless piece of journalism.
Posted by Chris at February 21, 2005 11:20 AM
Comments
But — but ... but ... we really do think alike! Swear to God! I worship the ground Herman Cain walks on!
Posted by: Greg Greene ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.chrisishardcore.com//nav-commenters.gif)
at February 21, 2005 04:36 PM
lol, greg you are NOT right.
I say let's really confuse them and get a white, intown, liberal who likes NASCAR!
Posted by: Tim at February 25, 2005 03:01 PM
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