http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/your_really_real_first_time.html
The young are great and it is good to see that there are some with a brain in there skulls, that tells them not to buy what Obama is peddling.
Sandy Salt - Crusty Sub Guy that has spent way too much time in the desert. And yes my middle name is Angry!
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
How long can we continue to ignore the “race” problem we all face as a nation?
Anything that
encourages the decades-long trend of racial division along party lines is not
good for the country in any way, shape, or form.
Mitt Romney may very
well become the next President of the United States. But the polls suggest if
he does, he will have minimal minority support at best. In a country that is
growing darker in skin color by the decade, Republicans relying solely on the caucasian
vote to win elections is not a sustainable strategy for future elections. It
may prove to be an unsustainable strategy in this election.
It's not a strategy
that's reflective of the party's long history of support for minorities -- from
President Abraham Lincoln to a Republican-led Congress passing the Ku Klux Klan
Act in an attempt to dismantle the group. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 may have
been signed by a Democratic president, but Republicans were the ones who
provided the push in Congress necessary to get it to his desk. Remember in
those days, Democrats didn't turn a blind eye to racism; they were oftentimes
the racists, especially in the South, whose Democratic lawmakers led a 57-day
filibuster trying to stop the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
When President Lyndon
Johnson signed the act into law, he reportedly said he was handing the South
over to Republicans for many years to come. And with that came segregation of a
different sort. Today, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana all have white
Republicans and black Democrats representing them in the House and Georgia is
likely to follow that trend. The Peach State's last white Democrat in the
House, Rep. John Barrow, finds himself in a tough race in part because his
district has been redrawn to include more Republicans and -- get this -- more
white people incorporated in that district.
We have minority Democrats
versus white Republicans – geez, so much for a post-racial society in America. In
2008, Obama's share of the white vote was 43%, which Ron Brown reported tied
Bill Clinton's 1996 vote as "the party's best performance among whites
since 1980." In 2010, the House Democrats received only 37 percent of the
white vote. BHO is said to be polling at 38% of the white vote this year. If
that number holds, he's going to need more than 80 percent of the minority vote
to get re-elected, a threshold well within his reach because Romney has failed
and continues to fail to gain any traction with blacks or minorities and has little
clue what it means to be Latino in this country.
If he had a clue, I
doubt he would've made any joke that referred to 47 percent of the population
and is now the infamous 47% video. His road to the White House would certainly be
easier if he had chosen more wisely. All of which points us to this: Both
parties have a huge race problem.
Democrats have been
hemorrhaging white voters for decades and cannot continue to rely solely on huge
minority turnout to make up the difference. They need to adjust their messaging
so white straight males feel there is still some room for them under the tent.
Recent history has
shown minorities were behind the Republican Party once so it would be foolish
to think it can't reengage and happen again. The president was correct when he
told the editorial board of The Des Moines Register that the growing Latino
community is a key to political success. But BHO is in a tight race because the
Democrats' message has lost its appeal to a lot of whites.
Now conversely,
Republicans are really in trouble because they've all but ignored the black and
minority communities. They are losing the Latino community where in the coming decades;
whites will most likely be in the minority. Romney may be able to win the White
House in 2012 with little support from minorities, which may be good for him presently
but bad for the party as a whole considering in 2011 the majority of infants
born in America were brown shades and not white.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/the_swedish_model_government_austerity.html
This is a reality check on the crap the Democrats and the Joker are shoveling.
This is a reality check on the crap the Democrats and the Joker are shoveling.
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