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Junior Chimp
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« on: October 27, 2013, 08:15:15 PM »

The GOP didn't realize that White Men are declining as a share of the electorate and population.

There we go again with the left playing the race card. Even if Republicans reach out to minorities, they're still going to be called racists by the media and left.

Well, call a spade a spade, eh what?

Barfbag is heavily oversimplifying things here.  While there are some racists within the GOP, some of their policies, even when they have a racially disparate impact, can be explained without using racism as the reason.  If you have a group of people who largely don't support your party, why bother about the impact your policies have on them?  Also, if there are ways to keep them from the polls, why not?  Not that being dismissing is good politics in the long term, even without the changing demographic situation.  But they can be explained as resulting from hardball politics rather than racial animus.

My point was that even if Republicans reach out to minorities, Democrats will find a reason to call them racists. Regardless of where Republicans stand on the issues, I don't think much can be done to reach out to minorities.

It's laughable that you make posts like this while also making posts accusing minority voters of being racist and costing Mitt Romney the election.

Also, saying not "much can be done to reach out to minorities" is playing the race card in reverse.  Hope this helps.
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