Mr. Pot And Mr. Kettle Announce Their Enagagement

Yeah, I wouldn't call Heath Shuler an LBJ disciple, by any stretch of the imagination.

 

Well, this is your morning claptrap.
Look at the historical record of Powell's abortive candidacy two cycles back - including Gary Bauer's press conference - and get back to me.
And RSC? You're falling for talking-points again, although sicne thecrazees have pretty much run GOP moderates to ground, I'm not surprised you're confused. Shuler wants to repeal NAFTA; that puts him to the left of his party on the rather big issue of trade. Nuance, nuance, nuance.

 

Gary Bauer is an idiot and does not have his hands on the RNC's purse.

Ask Carl McCall in NY and Cleo Fields in Louisiana if the DNC supports black candidates as well as it supports white candidates. For that matter, ask Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

 

OK, so are black voters in this country stupid or sheep? Or do they know full and goddamn well which party depends for its very life on the shoddy remnants of American apartheid?
Your paradigm, sport. You answer.

 

For the record, I still laugh out loud each time I see this topic's title.

 

Fenian,
Like white voters, they don't believe they have a choice. There are not 10 to 12 political parties out there with a chance to elect a president or even a mayor. However, back on topic, the DNC does not support black candidates as well as the RNC does.
It also doesn't help blacks as a whole, but that is not the topic here.

 

That must be why the RNC elects so many of them.
I'm sorry but your contention has certain empirically measured flaws at its heart.

 

Oh, and mind telling me how many Republicans showed up for that debate hosted by Tavis Smiley?

 

No less amazing than it was a week ago . ..

 

such as?

 

Beaker,
I suppose they didn't expect to benefit much from going. However, I would have gone as a candidate, and I would have encouraged the candidates to go were I the RNC chairman.

 

Such as the fact that, if the RNC finances black candidates more luxuriously than the DNC does -- for which you have adduced no evidence, by the way -- then there ought to be more black candidates running on the RNC line. Since there are not, we must assume there is something wrong with the RNC line itself --- probably, and I'm just spitballing here, the response of the administration to Katrina has something to do with this, and the fact that the modern RNC success was built in almost every case on the reeking bones of American apartheid.