reflexblue

The Rep party is 89% White? Pretty exclusive, how do they expect to stay in power? Especially when Limbaugh, Cheney, and Gingrich are the main spokesman for the party. Non of these guys is very indearing and accepting of other races.

Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel - Blogs from CNN.com

Here’s something that probably keeps the leadership of the Republican Party up at night: A new Gallup poll shows 89 percent of the party’s rank-and-file members are white.

Cafferty: GOP will not gain favorable support if Cheney, Limbaugh, and Gingrich continue to spew “negative, hateful rhetoric.”

This leaves only 11 percent of Republicans who are Hispanics, African-Americans or members of other races. These numbers are staggering and hardly in keeping with the radically changing face of the U.S.

That’s not all — by more than two-to-one, whites who call themselves Republicans claim a conservative ideology, and about half of them say they’re strongly religious.
Compare that to Democrats — whose party is 64% white and 36 percent non-white. By a ratio of more than four-to-one, white Democrats call themselves moderate or liberal, and only 20 percent of them say they’re highly religious.....

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Holy Diver

I love it.

anyone who disagrees with the fringe right is told to "get out"...

well, in a two party system, there is only one place to go.


The leadership in the party is quite amazing. They still live by the mantra, "if you aren't with us, you are against us". CLASSIC!

On their recent announcment of a listening tour, they TOLD us how they would be spreading THEIR message. They nominated a VP and head of party that both were reactionary and toxic. The loudest voices in the party are infact the most corrosive. The former VP is attempting to use fear, again...like the wierd uncle that keeps crying wolf...the last representative in the White House is a joke to 95% of the people on earth, and now almost 80% of americans.

and there is nobody to drive....or stop this crazy train.


Its exciting.

can't wait to see how this one ends, but the writing is on the wall.

Real World

Cafferty...lol.

I'm really confused about all this "inclusive" stuff, and politics. Is the goal to add as many people to your ranks as is humanly possible, so you can win, or is it to have a clear set of principles, and stick to them? In the world of Coke and Pepsi, selling more product is basically the ultimate goal I guess. So not having a platform, or a set of core beliefs is a better strategy. Personally I think the GOP went wrong by diluting, or going away from what were supposed to be it's founding principles. Small gubmit, more individual freedoms, low taxation, etc. I'd much prefer the GOP go back to being what it claims to be, even if it means it ends up smaller, than try to be "inclusive", in the hopes of attracting people that don't belong. When you try to include anyone, and everyone into your tent, it means that you have completely different, and conflicting interests to appease. It means you have to pander more, or screw principle, in order to keep the outsiders in. That's bad for the country IMO. The problem is that you need votes to win, so each side sells its soul to gain power. No thanks. Selling your soul, or principles, for votes only screws the country, and being "inclusive" is a code word for selling your soul.

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maverick4

They alienate moderate Republicans. The party is going to be fractured for a long time.

The only thing left in the party are those for pre-emptive warfare, spying on Americans, creationism, secret torture bases, lying in order to invade, printing trillions in free welfare for i-bankers.

Their platforms and leadership remind me a lot of that movie 'Idiocracy'.

PatsFanInEaglesLand

The media and brain dead idiots who listen to them. IE, Cafferty and CNN viewers.

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Holy Diver

Hail to the Chief!!!!!

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Holy Diver

so.....

no opinion on why only 21% of americans consider themselves republicans?



none?



you sound a lot like Michael Steele.

Holy Diver

I get your idealism on this, but I really think you have rose colored glasses on when dealing with the issue.

meaning...these republicans are not alienating members so they can stick with an underlying principle...

they are alienating those who believe that their past policy was criminal, and who disagree with a few blanket issues.

If you disagree with pre-emptive war.....THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT YOU.
If you disagree with torture for detainees .....THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT YOU.


in an all or nothing view, there is no wiggle room for free thought. Not everyone agrees that less government and lower taxes are their top issues... so anyone who thinks that........THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT YOU.


If you think a woman has a right to privacy, and to choose......THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT YOU.


anyone who wants Healthcare for all americans .....THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT YOU.





however....low taxes, Drill baby Drill, and free market capitalism? WELCOME.

Roland

well when the end of the world comes this poll shows 80% who may be among those mucking in slop with that murderer Tiller.

BelichickFan

For the racial part - when you're told from the day you're born that someone is racist you generally believe it. Republicans (as a group) are not racist but when an entire race grows up being told otherwise by their parents, teachers and peers it's difficult to overcome that thinking.