CPAC Attempts Minority Outreach...

and fails:

Thursday afternoon, CPAC hosted a panel on GOP outreach into minority communities. The panel included Virginia Senate candidate Ed Gillespie and a panel of Republican political strategists: Jason Roe, Elroy Sailor, and Robert Woodson. The panel delivered a remarkably pointed review of GOP voter outreach (largely its failures) and explained, in very straightforward terms, how the party can (and must) do better. However, the most revealing part of the experience was not what happened on stage, but what happened off stage, and reflects the national electoral struggles Republicans are facing.​

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2014/03/06-cpac-2014-minority-outreach-panel-hudak

 

I have already heard about it.

There was no one in the audience.

Apparently minorities were too busy signing up for their free Obama phones to attend.

 

Because they're so lazy--right?

 

Too bad you can't see those dozen people up in the corner of the screen! CPAC might call it a packed room.

(I haven't figure out to cut and paste a photo in this board yet--I tried to past that very photo earlier myself)

 

Could be.

I don't think they are all blind and in wheelchairs.

 

Nice.

In any case, your initial response is why CPAC trying to reach out to minorities is such wasted effort.

 

Republicans don't have any skill in buying votes based on ethnic voting blocks. Their one success were the Cubans and that is fading away. So panels like this are a waste of time and money. The GOP has spent millions on minority outreach over the past dozen years to diminishing effect. They should concentrate on crafting a message to appeal to the working class. That cuts across ethnic and racial lines and is practical. But the GOP can never outbid the Dems in vote buying.

 

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/hispanics-favor-bigger-role-for-government/

Sorry Republicans. Your only chance of gaining these voters is to offer more free stuff to them than the Democrats are. Good luck.

 

No, Thats not it.

Its a choice between the American dream of working hard to get ahead, and making your way on your own. You know personal responsibility, and hard work.

and the benevolent gifts of god king obama, who is kind and will provide you with all youve dreamed of, if only you will kneel, and sell out your country.



If he really needs your votes, he will grant you a uniform....

 

Has very little to do with that. Conservatives could be the best buddies of Hispanics and they will still go with the party of welfare and big Government. Culturally that's the kind of Government they seem to like, in my opinion. That's why Ted Kennedy and the Democrats wanted to change the demographics of the country back in the 1960's. They knew a nation full of poor Hispanic voters would lead the way to permanent Democrat power.

It's amazing that white Democrats could be proud to vote the way they do. Ideas so bad, we had to turn the US into Mexico in order to win.

 

Conservatives reach out to everyone every day.

They don't have special treatment for blacks or reds or blues.

Just one policy for everybody.

If blacks want someone in government wipe their nose and give them a free ride the Dems specialize in that.

 

The only group CPAC hasn't reached out to yet are intelligent, educated people.

But then intelligent, educated people know better than to align themselves with CPAC.

 

Your response is exactly why CPAC and conservatives in general shouldn't even bother reaching out to minorities in the first place.

Good post.

 

Another excellent post proving that conservatives even trying to reach out to minorities is ludicrous.

Excellent post by the way.

 

And you response represents the sort of lib thinking that condemn minorities to chronic failure and poverty.

 

That has to be the best post yet for typifying the problem conservatives have communicating with minorities.

Well done!

 

Thanks, it reflects reality, though your interpretation of it clearly does not.

 

Sure PEOPLE WHO 'NEED' OBAMA phones can afford to spend 3 days in a San Diego hotel rubbing shoulders with other POOR CPAC attendees. Sure that makes perfect sense.

 

Huh?

Anyway, your post goes a ways toward proving my point, and I thank you for that, but trying to make me the culprit seems a bit desperate.

 

I say conservatives trying to reach out to minorities is ludicrous, and you agree that is reality, though my interpretation of reality, the one you agree with, is in fact a misinterpretation.

It's a bit early in the day to be dead drunk, but as the (in)famous Bob Hadley once said, "If you're going to drink all day, you've got to start early," and I agree. What say you, Brewski?

 

you really think so?

What would you recommend conservatives should do to bring in minorities, when democrats are giving them handouts?

How are we supposed to convince people that you can get everything youve dreamed of if you get an education, and work hard to make your dreams come true?

 

Perhaps the Republicans could try their current strategy of spending TRILLIONS of dollars in "outreach" that they heap onto the wealthiest class and do it for working people.

I am sure it will work admirably if they pay the working class the same amounts they pay the wealthy.

 

Portraying our president as a witch-doctor is a great way to turn minorities away, and I really mean that.

The written word, at least from you, is not as effective at turning minorities away, but your picture was surely worth a thousand words. Keep up the good work, and if you've got any more derogatory pictures, this would be a good time to post a few.

 

It could be time well spent for minorities who have to depend on government to take care of them.

 

Because liberals see minorities as property to be owned and manipulated, and Republicans do not.

Personally I don't think Republicans should be making any attempts to reaching out to minorities, and before I tell you why I'm giving you liberals fair warning to get ready to type out RACIST in big bold letters because I'm about to lay out some unfortunate truth.

Here it goes, Republicans shouldn't bother reaching out to minorities because the *CURRENT* common characteristics of minorities do not fit in with the common characteristics of what it means to be a Republican. Some of these characteristics include a respect for self sufficiency, a strong value system with a 2 parent family at its core, and an understanding that the means of prosperity are rewards to be earned not entitlements to be taken. I'm sorry, but these things are simply not indicative of minorities as a whole as things stand right now.

And the reason I've highlighted "current" is because this fact wont always be true. You can see proof of the change already happening. More and more of these oppressed minorities are stepping away from the bare minimum handouts and constant race pimping game of liberalism and discovering what happens when you control your life, not government. Liberals call them "uncle toms" or other condescending code words hurled at any member of their protected class who dares to step off the plantation and actually make something of themselves.

So lets TLDR this. Republicans cant complete with Democrats to "own" the minority vote because Republicans don't see voters as something to own. And they shouldn't bother trying because freedom is not two parities trying to pull you in their respective directions, freedom is you doing for yourself without those parties standing in your way. When the day comes that minorities break themselves out of this cycle of dependency, and it will come, then game over Democrats.