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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (367483)	3/6/2003 8:08:06 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

The right-wing preserves and causes racial divides, doesn't heal them. Except for a few token exceptions, 90% of the GOP is white and most of those are males. The Trent Lott spirit lives, though closeted. We see a few JC Watts types paraded in front of cameras but they are an optical illusion. Just another political trick. Bush made some inroads into the Hispanic voters using his brother's Hispanic wife and nephew, but Hispanics aren't fooled either. Bush has had his chance. Minorities in general are faring very poorly under Bush, while under Clinton they enjoyed the highest employment statistics in history. Democrats dont just talk the talk, they walk the walk. In fact, at the fundraiser I worked on the black Democrats were the hosts and many of the major contributors. There was a sense of real equality, without even thinking about it. You wont find that anywhere in the GOP. Democrat diversity isn't a gimmick. It's just a natural thing. This worries the hell out of the GOP as minority populations grow. The GOP has historically ignored and attackled the interests of minority voters, but they are in a pickle now. How to get them to vote GOP without alienating their base which is partly far right-wing southern white male? We are more and more a divided nation and world with Bush in charge. Hopefully that can be fixed in 2004.