Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races

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Amazing from a party many claim is, well, intolerant

Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races - NYTimes.com

at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
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one of those kind of caught my eye too

Allen West received his Bachelors degree from University of Tennessee
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plus he's got some pretty strong military chops

About Allen West | Allen West for Congress 2010
 
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How can this be? The Republican Party, according to LG and others, is for white racists only
 
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32 out of 40 million. Yup, definitive proof that the GOP is the party of inclusion.

Well done.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Not remotely as ridiculous as suggesting that 32 black people running on the GOP tickets proves anything at all.
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make light of it all you want but it does mean something

biggest surge since Reconstruction
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and since you seem big on math please let me know how many white people ran vs their total pop
 
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lawgator1 said:
Not remotely as ridiculous as suggesting that 32 black people running on the GOP tickets proves anything at all.
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of course it does. It means people believe they are electable, even on a R ticket. That would not have been the case 25 years ago.

We don't invoke Joe Six as well as you do, but it shows incremental change, which is all we can really ever hope for on that front.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
of course it does. It means people believe they are electable, even on a R ticket. That would not have been the case 25 years ago.

We don't invoke Joe Six as well as you do, but it shows incremental change, which is all we can really ever hope for on that front.
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Every couple of years or so the GOP makes the claim that it is broadening its appeal to racial minorities and points to some lame thing like this as proof.

And here I though that the GOP-led effort to reduce the Hispanic influence in the country, or to attack or eliminate social spending that benefits way more African-Americans than the 32 they found to prop as their own this go 'round was a better indicator of what's really going on.

Silly me.
 
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lawgator1 said:
And here I though that the GOP-led effort to reduce the Hispanic influence in the country, or to attack or eliminate social spending that benefits way more African-Americans than the 32 they found to prop as their own this go 'round was a better indicator of what's really going on.

Silly me.
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There you go again - implying black people are lazy and live off the government; tsk tsk
 
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lawgator1 said:
Every couple of years or so the GOP makes the claim that it is broadening its appeal to racial minorities and points to some lame thing like this as proof.

The GOP is simply putting forth statistics. You're the one speaking for Joe Sixpack.

And here I though that the GOP-led effort to reduce the Hispanic influence in the country, or to attack or eliminate social spending that benefits way more African-Americans than the 32 they found to prop as their own this go 'round was a better indicator of what's really going on.

Reduce the Hispanic influence in our country? Is that what enforcing immigration law is about? Sounds like you believe the social spending to be helping the black community, even though it has crippled large swaths of it since inception. Help isn't about free cheese, bro. What's really going on is Dem vote buying with the same weak arguments you're giving us here.

Silly me.
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Agreed on point 3.
 
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lawgator1 said:
African-Americans than the 32 they found to prop as their own this go 'round
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you are really insulting some good people with a statement like that. You should read the bio I linked in the OP before calling these 32 puppets
 
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I'd embrace more cuts in social spending myself if it weren't for the fact that so much of the true motivation for GOP-proposed cuts is transparently retaliatory.

I know you don't embrace that motivation, yourself, but reading this board day in and day out its pretty easy to confirm that a signfiicant percentage of people calling themselves conservatives want to cut social spending just 'cause they are mad at it.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'd embrace more cuts in social spending myself if it weren't for the fact that so much of the true motivation for GOP-proposed cuts is transparently retaliatory.

I know you don't embrace that motivation, yourself, but reading this board day in and day out its pretty easy to confirm that a signfiicant percentage of people calling themselves conservatives want to cut social spending just 'cause they are mad at it.
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Exactly. Has nothing to do with sustainable government operations, creating a ginormous welfare class that grows exponentially because of limited education or downsizing the government. It's because we mad.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'd embrace more cuts in social spending myself if it weren't for the fact that so much of the true motivation for GOP-proposed cuts is transparently retaliatory.

I know you don't embrace that motivation, yourself, but reading this board day in and day out its pretty easy to confirm that a signfiicant percentage of people calling themselves conservatives want to cut social spending just 'cause they are mad at it.
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screw you and your race mongering.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'd embrace more cuts in social spending myself if it weren't for the fact that so much of the true motivation for GOP-proposed cuts is transparently retaliatory.

I know you don't embrace that motivation, yourself, but reading this board day in and day out its pretty easy to confirm that a signfiicant percentage of people calling themselves conservatives want to cut social spending just 'cause they are mad at it.
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I'm increasingly convinced that you're the racist around here. How diverse is your law firm?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'd embrace more cuts in social spending myself if it weren't for the fact that so much of the true motivation for GOP-proposed cuts is transparently retaliatory.

I know you don't embrace that motivation, yourself, but reading this board day in and day out its pretty easy to confirm that a signfiicant percentage of people calling themselves conservatives want to cut social spending just 'cause they are mad at it.
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you've outdone yourself with this one - easily one of the most arrogant and assinine posts I've seen in some time.
 
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40 % of my staff is black. We have no black attorneys at the moment, though we are only 5 attorneys in size right now and have a few in the past.

I am quite comfortable with the accuracy of my read of the situation, which is that there is a ton of resentment out there amongst white conservatives based on the perception that black people disproportionately use social services and programs based on re-distribution of their tax dollars.

Nothing you say would convince me that there is an undercurrent of retaliation in thier political philosophy, as a result.

If I'm wrong, so be it. But I know I am not.
 
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