Minorities ride GOP wave

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A hispanic governor, a Indian woman governor, a latina elected to congress. Two new black congressmen. While I tend to eschew the liberal fixation on race and quotas, I do see the ascendency of minorities as a welcome thing. This development stands in stark contrast to the idea that the GOP is the party for whites and the Democrat party is the party of “diversity” and minorities. The GOP has a ways to go, of course, but this is a good start.

*many also connected Obama to the rise of minority GOP candidates.

“Color is becoming less of an issue,” said Richard Ivory, a black Republican political consultant and founder of hiphoprepublican.com. “There was a time when the white electorate saw race first and made judgments based on this alone. While black Republicans and Obama disagree ideologically, both are candidates whose message surpassed pigment.” *

Did the election of Obama help pave the way for this development?

salon.com/news/2012_elections/?story=/politics/feature/2010/11/03/us_election_minorities
 
ishii said:
While I tend to eschew the liberal fixation on race and quotas
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The GOP has a ways to go, of course, but this is a good start.
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How do these two statements not contradict each other? :confused: Also, I’m wondering exactly what must happen before the GOP has officially accomplished this “ways to go”? Since you’re against quotas I’m sure you don’t mean they have to recruit or elect X number of “minorities” just for it’s own sake, but I don’t see what else something like that can possibly mean.
 
Two states elected female governors for the first time ever as well.
 
exoflare said:
How do these two statements not contradict each other? :confused: Also, I’m wondering exactly what must happen before the GOP has officially accomplished this “ways to go”? Since you’re against quotas I’m sure you don’t mean they have to recruit or elect X number of “minorities” just for it’s own sake, but I don’t see what else something like that can possibly mean.
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This is a fair question, to ask how I can reconcile the fact that I’m against quotas and don’t want to fixate on race, while at the same time I am happy that more minorities than before have run as Republicans and won their elections. The answer is this: I don’t say “unless the GOP has x amount of minorities voting for it, or x amount of minorities running and winning, then the GOP is racist or insensitive to the concerns of minorities.” What I am saying is that its good to see more minorities seeing the GOP as compatible with their values, and worthy of their consideration, instead of the minorities all flocking to the Democrat party - the party of big government, gay rights and abortion - more are now atleast seeing a future for them in the party which is the opposition to the Democrats - the GOP. In short, I am hopeful that perhaps in the future, more hispanics and minorities will listen to what the GOP has to say than before, and that might lead to more electoral success and perhaps a greater ascendancy of conservative values in government.

As far as how much further the GOP has to go, I would say that when the Democrat party can’t take for granted anymore almost all of the black vote, and when the hispanics start voting less for Democrats (67% for Obama in 2008) and support Republicans more, then the GOP will have achieved something. If the GOP effectively conveys its message of opportunity, growth and traditional values and underlines the basic Democrat philosophy of tax, spend, tax, spend, fewer jobs, less opportunity then maybe some hispanics( many of whom are socially conservative) will return to the GOP. Of course the elephant in the room is immigration policy. The GOP has to come up with a policy that somehow doesn’t embrace amnesty, but still respects our borders and national sovereignty and laws.

Ishii
 
These minority candidates won because they are racists. I guess. Apparently everyone is racist besides the people who are calling everyone else racist.
 
Asian republicans didn’t fair well this election. They all lost big.
 
MugenOne said:
Asian republicans didn’t fair well this election. They all lost big.
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I am aware of the Cao loss in Louisiana, and the Tran/Sanchez race in California, in which the GOP candidate Tran lost. The district had 31% GOP registration - hard for any GOP candidate to overcome. That said, it seeems Tran could have run a better campaign. Tran’s opponent Loretta Sanchez, you’ll remember, is the one who won her congressional seat with the help of illegal immigrants. She is a self-described moderate, but she is a Barbara Boxer when it comes to abortion rights. I wonder how many Catholics voted for her, and how they justified doing that.

There was also an Asian Republican who lost in Hawaii, but that was expected, as the Democrat party has almost a lock on the vote there. Their new governor is the frothing at the mouth leftist Neil Abercrombie ( a leftist heir to the Abercrombie and Fitch fortune). His opponent was Duke Aiona, the lieutenant governor who is a local Hawaiian with native Hawaiian roots and a good man - he was a parishioner of the parish I belonged to when I lived there. They need to stop smoking the pokalolo over there.

Ishii
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Native Americans did pretty well.
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“Washington, D.C.-- The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced that more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) candidates won election to public office in the U.S. in 2010 than in any year in America’s history.”
 
There have been outstanding exceptions, such as those mentioned in the article, but the Republican party is still very much a party dominated by white males. Look at the lineup for committee chairmanships in the new Republican congress: all white, all male. Not a hospitable place for blacks or hispanics.
 
Alan55 said:
There have been outstanding exceptions, such as those mentioned in the article, but the Republican party is still very much a party dominated by white males. Look at the lineup for committee chairmanships in the new Republican congress: all white, all male. Not a hospitable place for blacks or hispanics.
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How does that conclusion follow? Is a group of white men automatically an inhospitable place for blacks or hispanics? How about a a group of black men? Should a white man feel threatened or unwanted around a group of black men?
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
“Washington, D.C.-- The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced that more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) candidates won election to public office in the U.S. in 2010 than in any year in America’s history.”
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What’s your point here? Are “openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender” folks a racial minority?

Anyway, there is another thread where the Gay-rights groups view the election as a major setback. I guess they can’t make up their minds. 🤷 😛

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=509413
 
rlg94086 said:
How does that conclusion follow? Is a group of white men automatically an inhospitable place for blacks or hispanics? How about a a group of black men? Should a white man feel threatened or unwanted around a group of black men?
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You posted my immediate thoughts as soon as I read that. Wow, can’t believe he said that. Does this mean that white neighborhoods automatically mean they are inhospitable for black people?
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
These minority candidates won because they are racists. I guess. Apparently everyone is racist besides the people who are calling everyone else racist.
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True. True indeed.:D:D:D

You’re forgetting also another related reason as well: these minority candidates are also Racist because they don’t agree with or apparently don’t like Barack Obama.👍

Shame on them. :rolleyes:
 
bbarrick8383 said:
You posted my immediate thoughts as soon as I read that.
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Add me to that list as well.
Wow, can’t believe he said that.
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I guess this is where our reactions differ. “Argument by emotion” is a well-established liberal classic, so I don’t see why you should be surprised when it gets used even if the actual reasoning behind the argument makes no sense. The beauty of this approach is that you’ll never actually have to back up anything you say, and you can pretty much say anything you want to without fear of breaking your own standards. As one particular liberal on this board repeatedly explained to me, “it’s all about the perception”.
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
Electoral results of interest groups.

What difference does it make? They are a minority voting bloc.
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Oh, I get it. A minority group is a minority group is a minority group. In that case, I am wondering if any HO-scale train collectors were elected this year? 😉

I’m pretty certain that the OP was about racial minorities, since they were the only “minorities” mentioned in the article. That would make discussion of homosexuality an attempted derailment of the thread.
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
“Washington, D.C.-- The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced that more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) candidates won election to public office in the U.S. in 2010 than in any year in America’s history.”
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Really? What public offices - the San Francisco city council? Maybe they’re referring to the election of Kevin Lembo to Connecticut state comptroller? Or perhaps the double whammy of Marcus Brandon’s election to the North Carolina state house - he’s gay and black!

Maybe we could institute a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for our future elections.

Ishii
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
Electoral results of interest groups.

What difference does it make? They are a minority voting bloc.
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The article is about electoral results of racial minority groups. While the election of two black men and other minorities to congress is a positive, I truly hope that in 2012 more minorities who believe in the free-market and traditional values take a look at the GOP. I think the progress will be slow, however, as we’re dealing with deeply engrained attitudes and biases.

Ishii
 
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