Try as Republican leaders might to foreground as many minority party members as they can find, the lack of racial diversity in the GOP is evident, and at least one prominent Republican lawmaker is becoming increasingly concerned.
“The demographics race we’re losing badly,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the Washington Post. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
True enough: In a recent piece on the presidental election’s “racial calculations,” National Jounal’s Ron Brownstein noted that Camp Romney needs to secure a likely unattainable percentage of white voters for a chance to win in November.
“A GOP coalition that relies almost entirely on whites could squeeze out one more narrow victory in November,” Brownstein writes. “But if Republicans can’t find more effective ways to bridge the priorities of their conservative core and the diversifying Next America, that weight will grow more daunting every year.”
That Republican “big tent” wouldn’t let in half my neighborhood.
There are more women Republican governors than there are democrat women governors.
In US House, 54 Democratic women to 23 Republican women. In the US Senate, 12 Democratic women to 5 Republican women. Current governors, 4 Republican women to 2 Democratic women.
See what happens when you only look at the small picture? Conservative people tend to be less big picture thinkers. Studies have shown, etc.
Another angry Eideard screed.
Don’t worry, Eideard. There will be plenty of angry black guys to fill the ranks of the GOP soon enough when the country goes broke and the black standard of living goes from bad to worse.
Feel better now?
150,000 jobs gained per quarter, up from 700,000 jobs lost per quarter under Bush.
You seriously have a math problem. You need to do a lot more reading on jobs and the economy. You absolutely have no idea what your talking about.
Explain what is untrue then. Cite your sources perhaps?
typical lefty voter: no math skills (no skills, period!) yet want everyone else to show them reality.
You not only want to live from the government but is better for you that the government thinks for you as well
Looks like Pedro was just listening to Fox Fables.
I asked for sources, some right wing nutjob ignores that request and talks about government handouts.
Listen up, ideologue. Honest people can back up their claims with proper citations and when challenged, honest people have no trouble doing so.
Only liars have problems with that. I know you aren’t the one making the claims in the first place but if you have an honest bone in your body you will admit that unsourced claims by some twit on the internet just aren’t good enough.
And as for math skills, you can’t match me. I am calling you out. If you care to back up the claims of the liar above me, please do so. Since you cannot I expect you to run away from this honest debate.
Liars are afraid of being called out. Prove me wrong.
The original poster never gave any sources for his claim. Why don’t you ask for sources for that?
@Newformat
If you doubt the information, you ask for sources. I doubt the claims of those who call those figures lies and math problems.
You aren’t defending their right to not cite sources are you? I find the behavior of those who responded to the figures somewhat dishonest. I find your comment somewhat disengenuous.
Honest people don’t need to play those games. If you doubt the figures, ask for sources. If not then your comment reeks of concern trolling.
MHarry was doubting the claims of Bush jobs lost vs Obama jobs gained. No sources given. Instead of backing him up, you ask the responder for sources instead.
@Newformat
What a boring deflection. Once again, if you doubt those numbers you can ask for sources yourself. You have not, not after multiple comments. This implies that you don’t doubt those numbers. It does serve your purposes to pretend though, right?
MHarry made an accusation, I made a request for sources. You can’t criticize me for wanting sources when you want them too. Take a firm position on those numbers. Do you doubt those numbers, yes or no? If you do, why haven’t you asked for sources?
Your behavior is deceptive. Why? After multiple comments, I believe that if you had the slightest doubt of those numbers you would be making an issue of it. You would be calling him a liar… if you believed he was.
Honestly, show some integrity. Either ask for sources on those figures or stop whining when other people do. You are far too obvious. Such shiftiness implies that you in fact believe those numbers are true and want to pretend they aren’t.
You reek of deceptiveness. Try to learn from this.
Democrats are particularly skilled in generating angry folks.
In 1980 this happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1980.svg
In 1984:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1984.svg
You can be sure it wasn’t Republicans that did that. It was Democrats. Angry Democrats.
You are being too ambiguous. Carter had his own pros and cons and did make himself very ineffective the last 444 days in office, hence 1980. 1984 Reagun for a scond term against Mondale who almost made Carter look good?
Life is too complicated to point to a sweep and assume anyone thinks the same thing about it that you do.
Place a check next the President that…
took over from an unpopular Republican presidency:
___ Carter
___ Obama
won the Nobel Peace Prize
___ Carter
___ Obama
had major difficulty with the Middle East
___ Carter
___ Obama
faced difficult economic problems
___ Carter
___ Obama
was swept out of office after four years
___ Carter
___ Obama
Actually Obama will probably win, most incumbent presidents do. Romney’s broom may not be up to the task.
People who voted for McCain/Palin, the Mondale/Ferraro of their time, aren’t likely to vote for Obama this time.
All of the people who voted Obama/Biden last time aren’t going to repeat.
>>>>Try as Republican leaders might to foreground as many minority party members as they can find, the lack of racial diversity in the GOP is evident, and at least one prominent Republican lawmaker is becoming increasingly concerned.<<<<
sooo like is this making him angry?? looks like he's got a new party angle here
In Lindsey Graham’s case, its more like “Not enough closeted gay angry white guys”
“Angry White Male” is a Democratic codeword to demonize people whom liberals hate.
Here is your Democratic demonizing codeword .- -. –. .-. -.– / .– …. .. – . / — .- .-.. .
It’s soo Democratic and Demonic, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) convulsed to the Washington Post “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
Wow, now that is some Demonic Mojo the Democrats “gots a going” when they can beguile a conservative Republican leader like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)!!!
Those wicked liberals doing their witchy bitchy Demonic Mojo things again.
Can’t imagine whats the Democrats are brewing in their White House cauldrons now.
Republicans best be afraid; be very very afraid, because Obama is gonna get you!
Bad boys, bad boys, Whats you gonna do, whats you gonna do when Obama comes for you?
So you are calling a Republican a Democrat in order to criticize liberals?
Try a little honesty. Conservatives are not all racist, but most racists are conservatives. That means there is a significant need to create more racists in order to further the needs of the right wing. A rational person could admit that this factor exists and has real world consequences.
An ideologue however would deny it until the cows came home.
An ideologue or someone who knows if they told the truth they would lose the election. Ideologue vs Shill. The amount of overlap between those two groups could be just about anything.
You don’t know the crap your talking about.
Put the beer down and let your brain cells breath!
Lets see you admit that the quote came from a republican. Your petty bullshit isn’t going to convince anyone with integrity. Fearmongering and hatemongering are the favorite tactics of this generation of the right wing.
Show some guts, show some honesty, show some integrity. When you make a mistake, admit it. That is what grownups do after all.
Then what do you call the people in the lame media who are screaming racism every time somebody disagrees with them even when the person doing the disagreeing is black?
Demented?
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/07/24/eric-holders-keystone-state-voter-id-shakedown/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/dead-dog-voter-registration-virginia_n_1609897.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Uft-5NQy8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOUTKYtDK10
who knows the requirements to Vote in Wash. DC??
There arnt any..you can tell them WHO you are and vote..any name will do..
By what law of logic can Lindsey Graham’s using the left’s description of the GOP proves the GOP is racist.
The discussion is about demographics, which the GOP is currently winning:
http://breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/01/gop-voters-at-all-time-high
If you leftists believe the American Dream is unappealing to ethnic minorities, you must explain why so many of them want to be here.
And the Republican Party is the party of those who dream the American Dream while the Democrats are the party of those who dream of getting freebees, in exchange for their freedom….precisely the tired old ideas folks immigrate here to get away from.
I predict the fiasco that is Obama will drive minorities to the GOP, as it relearns its roots…its the party of freedom, and ideas….not make believe victims created so Democrats can pander for their votes.
ps: Buy your own damn contraceptives if you don’t want Government in your bedroom, stupid.
Because leftist nutters at the usual sites make the same mistake as you satirically challenged do here…I’ll explain Graham’s purpose further.
He is not calling the GOP or himself racist…therefore that isn’t his intent.
He is using “angry white men” as the left means it, to make a point about demographic strategy. “If we are guilty of what the left charges us with, being a party of “angry white men” only, we will lose the war of ideas.”
Only idiots would suppose Graham, when speaking to fellow GOPers, is admitting they and himself are racist, and use the left’s slander of the GOP, as though it were true.
Idiots.
Now do a google search and see for yourself who the usual idiots are.
Taxed Enough Already Dude, get your head out of it’s crap hole.
What more need be said:
“The demographics race we’re losing badly,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the Washington Post. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
Let me help you an parse out what Lindsey Graham is saying:
We need more, “Angry white guys”
Definition check:
People with irrational beliefs and thoughts!
This describes republicans fully; how they work, how they think, how they act….
Republicans are all caught up in one big social anxiety hysterical irrational disorder. In extreme cases Republicans will froth at the mouth. Their disease is probably a genetic mutation induced by exposure to seeping toxic biochemical waste dumped by their unregulated friends! Society best not let them reproduce. Ninja Turtles they are not!
Incorrect, this wasn’t a discussion about racism…
The Republican Party is not racist, it freed the slaves from Democrats….KKK people…Bull Conner etc were all Democrats.
NAACP was started by rich white Republicans to fight Democrat racism against blacks.
The Republican Party doesn’t pander according to ethnic or racial groups, that’s how the Democrats secured the black vote in the 60′s, prior to that most were Republican.
They bought the black vote with welfare. Little did Blacks know, it was meant to keep them on the Democrat plantation by destroying the black family…and making mom and her children totally dependent upon Government.
Now many blacks are waking up to the racist Democrats…how everything they do is racist and bigoted…and like Mia Love, Herman Cain, etc….they are RETURNING to the party of their forefathers, the one that freed them from Democratic slavery.
So Lindsey Graham’s words are not indicating the Republican party is racist…he wasn’t talking about racism…he was talking about strategy to reach out to all those who the left say aren’t “angry white guys.”
Which includes White Democrats.
A number of those are realizing they don’t agree with the left wing of the party…it took over, driving the Clinton centrists into the shadows…these also are ripe to be Republicans…many are now Tea Party….that’s why the Republican Party now has more registered voters than Democrats.
They are leaving the Democrat Party in droves, just as I did during Reagan.
Graham’s warning is meant as a call to action, not a prediction of what cannot be changed.
That’s the context of his comment, to communicate the need for change.
Gov. Susuana Martinez illustrates the changed needed, communicate the fact the American Dream is being systematically destroyed by the Democrat party.
The destruction is so great few Democrats even recall what the American Dream is…they think its free stuff.
The American dream is no one is stuck in a caste by birth, that anyone can rise to the top if they work hard. And it means we keep what we earned, it doesn’t belong to the state.
So the American Dream is small government (=more personal freedom for citizens), less taxes (=property rights).
Its not a cradle to grave welfare state in a command and control economy.
Republicans lost their way for a time, forgot their core….If they don’t relearn it, the Tea Party will become a third party….but they will relearn it.
AND Freedom to worship as we see fit, earn a living as we see fit, to rise as far as we want without any ethnicity, race, creed, sex foreordaining our place in society…is WHY people immigrate to this country, and why our founding fathers and those who came after did.
The Democrats are destroying that freedom because they prefer socialism….command and control…
Just like Gov. Martinez, once immigrants including Mexicans know what the Democrats are about…they become Republican.
They don’t agree with Democrats socially, nor economically….and the pandering by blasting a hole in our border….doesn’t appeal to the 2nd generation Mexican any more than it does to other Americans.
Michael Moore predicts Romney will win the election. That is the equivalent of 1 million angry white guys.
Why are so many of you still wasting your time arguing over the same party?
Not the same party today…
That was almost true prior to 2008…the progressives had taken over both parts and they ultimately did the same things….the DemoRepublican party, Democrats quicker to leap into socialism than Republicans…but both were headed in the same direction.
Today its different, the Tea Party is taking over the Republican party, and the much malinged and suppressed conservative wing of it is experiencing a resurgence…the progressives are being driven out.
That’s why Democrat operatives hate the Tea Party, and vilify it at every opportunity…Clintonian centrists etc have joined the Tea Party….and they are trying to stop the tide…shoveling shit against it.
But it won’t stick. We patriots love the American Dream, whether we are Independents, Democrats or Republican…not command and control where everything is free but us.
Once Minorities realize who they themselves are, and compare that with the leftist Democratic Party which ousted Clintonian centrists and is now Marxist for all intents and purposes….they will become republicans because it is the place Conservatives congregate:
IF YOU BELIEVE _____>>> YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE:
Value of the individual, in the sanctity of individual sovereignty
The individual has God given natural and inalienable rights, any individual regardless of race.
Respect for the individual, his life and his property
If you’re against freeloading and believe all able should carry their own weight
If you believe in family and faith
If you believe the law applies to everyone and all races deserve justice and impartial hearing of grievances and all must obey the same laws equally
If you believe welfare is a hand up, not an entitlement way of life
If you embrace the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
If you have sole loyalty to the USA
If you believe a centralized Federal Government of concentrated power is a danger to all of us, our liberties
If you believe parents have the right to send their own children to better schools regardless where they live or who they are
If you believe in legal immigration and not illegal immigration
If you believe the money you make is yours and does not belong to the Government
If you believe Government shouldn’t pander to any group but treat all citizens fairly and equally.
If you believe your home is your castle, your property yours and does not belong to the community
If you believe your personal life is your business and not that of the Government’s
I wonder if Democrat angry white males will increase after Clinton delivers his “anticolonialism” speech at the DNC, exposing Obama but opening the path to Hillary in 2016?
A true saying, if someone made you, they can break you.
I think we might see a surprise coronation of Hillary as the Veep if not the nominee directly. Biden is being given orders to go crazy. At one campaign stop he kissed a campaign supporter on the lips.
Yeah, she told an Eastwood joke. She obviously wasn’t bothered by it at all, why are you (pretending?) to be bothered by it?
Concern troll is obvious. Is pretense all you have?
Are there enough clueless minority women to re-elect this loser?