halogamer1989 on 29 April 2009
| The Ghost of RubangB said: If he stays Independent, this won't make too much of a difference. But it's great publicity for Democrats and bad publicity for Republicans. It's just more news about the Republican party shrinking into a regional party, and chasing out its own members. That's an image that the Republican party needs to fight, but they seem to be tripping over themselves trying to find out how. They really need to get some diversity going on. Right now the Democratic party is the only party with Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, and a lesbian in Congress. Only one openly gay man has won a senate seat, and he's a Democrat too. (All other gay or bisexual Congressmen have been outed after their elections, including both Democrats and Republicans.) Democrats had the only Sikh b ack in the day. The majority of women in Congress are Democrats too. It's no secret that the only demographic that Republicans totally dominate in is white men, and that with immigration and the changing religious landscape, that that demographic is shrinking while ALL other demographics are growing. So uh.. why are Republicans chasing white moderate men out of their party? |
Bull. We have former Hindu now Catholic Gov Piyush "Bobby" Jindal of Louisiana, Muslims, women, youth, tech-savvy, the first Vietnamese Senator Anh Cao (R-LA) and an black former Lt. Governor of the blue state of Maryland--Michael Steele as Chairman. We need to get out and focus on fiscal policy more, imo.
