Under the bus

Do you know that there is not one African-American Republican in Congress? These characters can “debate” all they want, but all you need to know about the Republican party resides in that fact.

With respect to Bartlett’s observations: agree that Guiliani has done the best job invoking Hillary as the boogeyman, disagree that people care about Romney’s mormonism, and agree that GOP will vote pragmatically.
As for last night, more of the same. I see Guiliani as energized and somewhat commanding. I liked that Romney talked about applying sanctions to Iran BEFORE he got into “any means necessary.” But I was mostly depressed by the Iran war rhetoric.

DKNY – J.C. Watts, Jr., he is serving now, but when you go back in time before the libs put out lies that pushed Blacks to think that they had to be democrat, well the number was at 22.
Now you tell me how many blacks were in Clinton’s Cabinet? How many did he appoint to the Supreme Court?

Spock, DKNY is correct! There are no current African-Americans in Congress. Former Connecticut Rep. Gary Franks (1991-1997) and former Oklahoma Rep. J. C. Watts (1995-2003) were the most recent GOP members of Congress. Prior to Rep. Gary Franks, the last African-American to represent the Republican party was former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke (1967-1979).
But you are correct that when an African-American decides to run for a national office as a Republican, he or she comes under heavy attack by the African-American community. There aren’t too many African-Americans who want to subject themselves or their families to such ridicule. The fact is that Rep. Gary Franks and Rep. J. C. Watts both won their seats in districts that were 90% White.

DKNY – Are you not being swindle by the libs/Marxists?
I realized that from James, my mistake there. But you still have not answered my question.
Also do they not need to run to be elected.
Again go back to Maryland very high percentage Black, but yet they voted in a White male over Michael Steele because Steele was racial attacked by the left.

The shift of the African-American voting block from once a heavily Republican majority to a heavily Democratic majority is a phenomena that a brief synopsis cannot due justice. But in a nutshell here are a few facts:
Following the Civil War, freed slaves flocked to the Party of Lincoln for obvious reasons — it was Lincoln who freed them! Of course, for decades thereafter, most had difficulties even registering to vote much less actually voting. But those who were able to vote did so for the GOP candidates. And the GOP reciprocated by handing out federal jobs to African-American men. This alliance between African-Americans and the GOP remained solidly intact until President Theodore Roosevelt summarily discharged three companies of African-American soldiers following the Brownsville Affair of 1906 without a hearing or trial. Not only were these soldiers discharged from the Army, but they were denied their pensions and benefits. Then President William Howard Taft struck a huge blow for the alliance when he removed African-Americans from prominent positions within the Republican Party and replaced African-Americans from federal jobs with less qualified Whites. But in spite of this, the African-American voting block was still a slim majority Republican.
Now we get into the area to which Spock was referring. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party did a great job in selling the New Deal. And the irony is that African-Americans began switching parties in droves. I say “irony” because the minimum wage regulations that were passed made it illegal for employers to hire individuals who lacked the necessary skills. As a result, it is estimated that 500,000 African-Americans lost their jobs. Taxes tripled between 1933-1940. And the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, which was designed to help farmers by cutting farm production and forcing up food prices, did just that. So African-Americans had to pay higher food prices; and those fortunate to get work had to pay more in taxes as well. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Congress passed the Wagner Act of 1935 which gave labor unions the exclusive power to represent employees. Even though a provision within the Wagner Act prohibited racial discrimination, African-Americans were routinely discriminated against. And then there was the Tennessee Valley Authority which gave displaced farm owners, mostly White, cash settlements. But the tenant farmers, many of whom were African-American, received nothing for being displaced. Yet for the first time, African-Americans began voting in majority for the Democrats.
Another irony, which was the final straw between the alliance, was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democratic Party, reaped huge rewards, which carry over to the present, for passing that legislation. Yet Southern Senate Democrats tried everything they could to block the legislation. But after a 57-day filibuster, the supporters of the bill finally got enough votes to bring the vote to the floor. The Republicans, who receive no credit for the passage of the legislation, voted 136-35 (80%-20%) in the House and 27-6 (82%-18%) in the Senate in favor of the legislation. The Democrats voted 153-91 (63%-37%) in the House and 46-22 (68%-32%). Southern Democratic Senators voted 1-20 against the legislation, as did the lone Southern Republican Senator.
We now see African-Americans voting better than 10-1 Democratic.