Well, OBma is not REALLY black. not the way Herman Cain is black. herman Cain is authentic black whiel Obama is elitist Kenyan socialist black.
They mostly think they are the same person.
The question with teh black vote is always “how many will vote” not “who will they vote for”
If you’re a Republican, you can’t win their vote, you have to suppress it.
I wouldn’t vote for them but I would not feel contempt for those who did and I wouldn’t feel despair if they won.
As someone who grew up in NYC and voted for more Republicans than Democrats in my lifetime, I think you are confusing Republicans with what passes for Republicans these days.
The potential VP list is a mile long.
I can’t imagine what planet you just flew in from, but on our world the only definition of “Republican” (as well as “Democrat”) stems from the current leaders of those parties and their current behavior.
Sorry, man. NYS has republicans that can vote for gay marriage. We’re still Rockefeller Republicans up here.
Yeah he fooled me too.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well you can’t get fooled again. But to be fair, he didn’t run as a moderate in 2004.
I don’t know that these folks think Mormons are Christians.
Because Huntsman isn’t necessarily the virulent form of Republican that we have seen take over the party over the last 20 or 30 years.
There is a saying. Republicans think Democrats have bad ideas, Democrats think Republicans are bad people. Well, Republicans actually think they have a monopoly on good ideas. They have an almost religious conviction that their ideas are right and the other guys ideas are wrong that they are happy to cause more pain to get America to vote Republican so they can implement those ideas.
I’ve heard Huntsman speak a few times and while he is a Republican, he has not signed the Grover Norquist tax pledge because he realizes that if he wants to get anywhere on entitlements, taxes have to be on the table. That fact alone makes him different than what passes for republicans these days.
"And Huntsman told reporters Tuesday that he would not sign Norquist’s or any other pledge this year – on abortion, gay rights or any other topic. "
That may be a saying, but that doesn’t make it true. For the past several years the public political discourse has been the other way round. Democrats keep saying that Republicans have bad ideas, but Republicans keep accusing Democrats of being socialistic gay-loving Bible-bashing tree-hugging traitors. Again, reality is what the totality of people actually say, not your opinions about the way it should be.
I think the people saying this are Republicans who want to make Democrats look bad.
The reality based on how they actually behave seems to be that Republicans think Democrats are bad people who have bad ideas and there’s nothing that can be done to change this. All the Republicans can do is keep the Democrats out of power so their badness won’t hurt America. The main split in Republican ideology is between those who feel America includes the Democrats and they need to save Democrats from themselves and those who feel America excludes the Democrats and the Democrats should get what’s coming to them.
The Democrats on the other hand think of themselves as good people with good ideas and they think the Republicans are just mistaken. They feel that all they need to do is show the Republicans how good their ideas are and the Republicans will realize their errors and agree with the Democrats.