And what makes you think you are going to get a non-whacko african-american running for president on the Republican ticket any time soon? I suppose it will depend on how the coming purges in the party shake out. Democrats did a surprisingly quick turn around reorganizing after the 2004 Presidential debacle. Dean's 50-state strategy didn't seem like an obvious winner when he proposed it and a lot of people thought he was a loon because of it. Run for head of the DNC against the traditional DLC folks from the Clinton days? Insane. But he helped pull off a rather amazing turn around starting with the 2006 midterm elections.
Republicans are going to have to do some serious house cleaning after this election and decide on their strategy for regaining ground. The 2010 midterm elections map doesn't look good for them, especially in the Senate. And they'll probably have to help from an implosion by a Democrat-lead Congress and Presidency. Which is certainly not out of the question. Still, I don't know that I see much in the way of up and coming African Americans on the Republican farm team. They've got Bobby Jindal as the lead minority candidate in the party. Beyond him the pickings look pretty slim from here. But if there is a reorganization in the party and they realize that they can't win national elections with just the religious base anymore, perhaps we'll see a more compassionate and fiscal-oriented party come out of it that can recruit better. Still, it seems like it will be quite a reorganization. Judah On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant a black Republican who had a chance of winning. Keyes has been a > fixture for years but has never gotten more than 1-2% if I remember > correctly. > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Judah wrote: > >> Actually you did have a black Republican running for President this >> year. His name was Alan Keyes. He was in the debates in Iowa and >> registered over 1% of the vote I believe. He became disaffected and >> refused to acknowledge McCain's win and eventually went for the >> Constitution Party's nomination, which he lost as well. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:278003 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
