akuma587 said:
They may have had the purest intentions in the world. But when your party is losing blacks by a 95-5 percentage margin, actions like this are just plain foolish from a strategic standpoint. Republicans have essentially adapted the strategy that they can slit their wrists to victory, that they can somehow bleed the impurities out of their party by becoming even more conservative. They don't understand that they need to broaden their appeal. You can't shrink your way to victory. They have essentially given up on minorities. Their outreach to the black community extends about as far as putting a black person in their photo ops. And even with Hispanics, with whom they actually agree on some issues like abortion, they have forfeited that advantage by taking a hard-line stance on immigration. Hispanics are growing exponentially in numbers, and Republicans are essentially conceding them to the Democrats as a demographic by dragging their feet. If Republicans were actually competitive with minorities, then things like this wouldn't really matter. But when your most reliable voting block (white males and to a lesser degree white females) is shrinking faster than any other group in the population, you need to get your head out of your ass and start appealing to the minorities who will soon be the majority. I could be a better Republican strategist then most Republicans, and I am a freakin' blue-blooded Democrat!
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I imagine it's because the people currently in control of the republican party know how they got in control.
By the old guard feeling it needed to broaden it's appeal.
If they go the Bush/McCain route of taking a light stance on illegal immigration and when over the Catholic hispanics... (highly possible they could get them in huge numbers.)
In a decade or two those Hispanics will be running the party, where they disagree it will be their party line and not the ones who made the effort to broden.
Better to have a shrunken and smaller party with your own influence, then create a better rival in which your influence is no longer heard.
I mean, look what happened to the Libertarian Republicans after the Dixecrats and Neo-cons moved over.
This would put the Dixiecrats out. (not like thats a bad thing) and likely end up weakening the Neo-cons as far as control goes.
Honestly i hope they do it. This would lead to a third party taken form eventually.
and perhaps we could move to a 2.5 party system or more.
