Newsmax, November 9, 2009
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is stirring controversy once again with a video interview in which he said that some white Republicans are “scared” of him when he walks into a room.
Steele was responding to TV One’s Roland Martin, who said that “white Republicans have been scared of black folks,” Steele replied: “You’re absolutely right.”
“I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me,” said Steele, the first African-American RNC chairman, Politico reported. “I’m like, ‘I’m on your side.’”
Steele {snip} credited Governors-elect Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia for running a message that could appeal to black voters.
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McDonnell, who secured the endorsement of BET founder Sheila Johnson early in his run, used her as one of his top surrogates on the campaign trail, according to Politico. Both GOP candidates, however, lost the black vote by landslide margins according to exit polls.
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“Steele {snip} credited Governors-elect Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia for running a message that could appeal to black voters.”
The only way to appeal to a significant percentage of black voters is to promise blacks a more generous welfare apparatus along with more of what is generically referred to as “affirmative action.” In doing so Republicans would just morph into Democrats.
Republicans must rediscover their backbones and hind legs and not be afraid of being called names like “racist.” Their core constituency is middle-class white people and Republican candidates should not hesitate to openly appeal to their interests.
They are not scared of him, but they do feel uncomfortable with him because he wants to take the GOP further to the left.
The GOP lost the white vote. That is the problem. They never had the black vote. Hillary Clinton lost the black vote. If she can’t get the black vote the GOP certainly isn’t going to get it. They should stop the folly and redefined themseleves. They should appeal to white voters instead of trying to appeal to black voters by going further left.
Michael Steele would have no job in the Republican Party, not even chocolate mascot, without affirmative action. The best he can do for the party is to sit down and shut up.
“Both GOP candidates, however, lost the black vote by landslide margins according to exit polls.”
No matter how many Michael Steele’s you have saying “no seriously, we’re not racist, look at me,” the results are still going to be the same. The Republican party needs to focus on the demographic that wins them elections instead of wasting valuable time and resources on this side-show. What ever happened to the Southern Strategy? They won two elections carrying 49 out of 50 states with that platform. Liberals love to call it a southern strategy but in reality, it was a national strategy.
In the color-free society all blacks pretend to want, appealing to anybody or any group specifically should never occur.
A party platform is established, outlining what principles and tenants the party stands for, and those in line with that thinking are free to join or to reject it.
Blacks keep revealing how biased and narrow-minded they are without really knowing it. They’re their own worst enemies.
But, no matter what anybody does, in the last analysis, integration will never take place, even among the radical leftist ideologues.
The split between the races is greater now than ever before, and it will continue to get wider no matter what kind of tact is in play.
These rainbow fools should all stop trying to change mother nature and accept the fact the races were never meant to integrate, and they never will, at least not to any great extent.
Just another reminder of why I am so glad to be an ex-Republican. Sam Francis was right on when he termed the GOP “The Stupid Party.”
So long as the Republican party has people like McCain (white in favor of illegal immigrants and worse) and Steele (African American)there will not be success.
Basically white middle class Americans have no party to vote for that represents their interest.
The election of Steele was a huge mistake as was it to run McCain for the Presidency.
It guaranteed a victory for the Hussein Obama.
“Steele {snip} credited Governors-elect Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia for running a message that could appeal to black voters.”
“McDonnell, who secured the endorsement of BET founder Sheila Johnson early in his run, used her as one of his top surrogates on the campaign trail, according to Politico. Both GOP candidates, however, lost the black vote by landslide margins according to exit polls.”
Mr. Steele’s opinion doesn’t seem to square with those exit polls. With the Republican Party bleeding members and donations barely trickling in, the big question seems to be why this fool hasn’t been forced to resign. The midterm elections are just around the corner and as long as he represents the face of the Republican Party they won’t recapture many of those voters.
1 Howard Fezell:
And when Repubs do what you describe, this gives cover for the Democrat to go even more left wing. Therefore, since the Democrat can always promise more welfare, the Democrat will always get at least 95% of the black vote, usually more.
If white Republicans (redundancy there) are scared of Michael Steele, it’s because he’ll drive the party into irrelevancy if he had his way. They might win elections in 2010 in spite of themselves, simply because they’re the only other choice other than Obama.
“Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is stirring controversy once again with a video interview in which he said that some white Republicans are ‘scared’ of him when he walks into a room.”
This is one of the biggest loads of grandstanding regurgitated cow’s cud that I have ever seen. Is Comrade Steele feebly attempting to prove that he is an intimidating black velvet “gangsta” or something? Well, that is laughable; he is about as threatening a black man, as Whoopi Goldberg is the likely next great black beauty. It just isn’t plausible, to say the very least!
As always, God help us all!!!
No quarter given. That is the only viable position vis-a-vis blacks. Republicans not only will not take that position, they make a black their spokesman. Then the inevitable happens. So who’s to blame? Not Steele. Nothing better can be expected of him. The only hope I see in all this is that maybe worse is better. But it’s going to have to get a whole lot worse to wake up the desperately respectable Republicans. There’s the rub.
Republicans should be scared of Steele. After all, he’s at the forefront of leading his party down the path to permanent minority status, irrelevance and obscurity.
Steele is a RINO that was hand picked by McCain. The plan is to destroy the GOP and blame it on the Black Man. Steele gave over $700,000 to that communist women candidate in the NY 23 district who quit one week later. Steele, get rid of him now.
I can’t imagine why white folks would be afraid of being with black folks they don’t know???? Well, actually I can imagine this since I’ve read Jared Taylor’s ‘Color of Crime’ and can appreciate the many ways the detailed proclivity for crime may play out.
I would especially worry about Roland Martin since he broadcasts his disdain for whitey at every opportunity.
Michael Steele thinks it is OK that I continue to be treated like a second class citizen in this country. I went on to the Internet, and here is what Michael Steele said about AFFIRMATIVE ACTION on April 28, 2006.
Q. Do you think the time for affirmative action is past?
Steele: Absolutely not. We’re just beginning to rediscover what we should be doing with affirmative action. Don’t look at our universities. We got that. Let’s look at our boardrooms, let’s look at the management structure.
Don’t expect me to support a party whose head cheerleader thinks that we whites should be treated like second class citizens.
You’re right, Steele. This is why I stopped voting for Republicans.
He says he is on the side of White republicans, but at the same time, he says «I strongly support affirmative action».
I guess as long as he gets affirmative action, he os on the side of anyone who is willing to give him a break or an unfair advantage!
I quit voting Republican about 10 years ago, sick of their taking white votes and money and virtually NEVER representing our interests. Even when the GOP held the White House, Senate and House of Representatives simultaneously they took us for granted, thinking we had no where else to go. But I did decide to go somewhere else, so now I generally vote for minor party candidates. True, the minor parties won’t win but I’ll be double-dipped if I’ll ever vote Republican again. They are a bigger farce than the Democrats. So, white people, LEAVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. And it will hopefully die on its own.
Michael Steele is on board with the race-replacement of Native Born White Americans at the hands of post -1965 non-whites. A vote for the Republican party is a vote for the death of Native Born White America. No excuses…including the “I didn’t know” excuse.
Extremely worse is better…it is the only way that foolish White Republican voters will get the message. The survival of NATIVE BORN WHITE AMERICANS as racial majority within the borders of America requires the complete destruction of the Republican party. Just to remind everyone:numbersusa.com still won’t acknowledge that NATIVE BORN WHITE AMERICANS exist. Send your $$$$ yo American Renassaince and vdare.com
I’m not familiar with this particular… but I think the real ambivalence whites might have is in allowing any blacks from making deeper inroads into their (white) psyche’s in the social sphere. Whites instinctually want to depend on their (own) genetic team. I’m talking the natural whites not marxist type who are nearly opposites this birds of a feather instinct. Ideologies come and go, genetics are much longer in the making and instantly defiled through miscegination.
Actually, he is correct. ALL white politicians are terrified of blacks -terrified they will offend, be called racist, be viewed as disconnected from the “black community,” be considered insensitive, be accused of one racial mis-step or another. That is the terror, the afflction exihibited by all the white politicians of modern day…regardless of party affiliation.
I’m so fed up with sissy white Republicans trying to find Mr. Good Black or Mr. Good Latino or, now, Mr. Good Indian (red dot).
Screw that. The party should try to be like the Star Wars Bar. How about a party that represents white people—and, yes, we do have genetic interests that are different from other peoples. To hell with integration, diversity and multi-culturalism. What have they done for white people? Ask yourself, if you’re white, exactly how has having a multi-culti society helped you, yes you, right in your own family have a happier and better life? Here’s what it’s really brought you: crime, second class citizenship for you and yours, discrimination against you because you’re white, social dysfunction, you being forced to pay for medical care, food, etc. for those unlike you.
Steele is clueless. He is where he is because a few really powerful white people are NOT “afraid” of him.
Maybe Whites aren’t scared of you, they just want to avoid you because they don’t want to have anything to do with you. The same reason I don’t donate to the RNC anymore. That said, I haven’t written the Republican Party off completely. There are still a few good candidates at the local level that I support, including Rand Paul who is running for Congress in my state. I encourage everyone else to do the same, just don’t fall for that stunt they did in NY when they had a liberal Democrat running against a liberal Republican with a third party neocon supported by Sarah Palin.
I find this all amusing.
With only 13.4% of the population, why does the Repugnican party feel they need to pander to blacks?
But then isn’t this one of the many problems true conservatives have with the “GOP” anyway?
Seems self-evident to me.
25 Anonymous:
It’s even worse than that. The Republican Party gets such an insignificant percentage of its votes from blacks that it might as well be zero. If Repubs would do that much for a racial demographic that gives it 0.00000000001% of the total votes it receives, then it would stand to reason that it would give the world to the whites who vote for it, and make up probably 95% or more of its voters.
“It’s even worse than that. The Republican Party gets such an insignificant percentage of its votes from blacks that it might as well be zero. If Repubs would do that much for a racial demographic that gives it 0.00000000001% of the total votes it receives, then it would stand to reason that it would give the world to the whites who vote for it, and make up probably 95% or more of its voters.”
It just proves that both parties are controlled by the same elites. The politicians will ignore their constituency in exchange for lining their pockets with gold. The elites will even use their money and influence to rejuvenate a dead campaign (think John McCain) to ensure a victory for their mulatto prince.