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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (38761)	7/31/2005 4:21:56 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

I think views have changed over time. Since I'm a Republican, I've criticized my own party for its faults. My only direct experience with the Democrats was the last election (since I volunteered for the Kerry campaign). About half of the local steering committee were Dems (the rest independents and a few Republicans). My reaction was the Democratic party is poorly organized, but the people were great. I didn't sense any of the intolerance that I experienced at the RNC. Of course this was just a local group, but the local GOP has some religious nuts that I can't stand ... so I'll probably be working with the Dems in the near term.

To: paret who wrote (38761)	7/31/2005 4:29:17 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 93284

That's true, but the latest party against blacks has been the Repugnicans, who moved in to pick up the racist vote when the Dems abandoned it. That why the chairman of the RNC, Ken Mehlman, just apologized to the NAACP for the Repugnican "Southern Strategy" of the last four decades. The blacks know which party is the lesser evil NOW, and it's the Dems. The Repugnicans don't even have ONE nationally elected black! washingtonpost.com RNC Chief to Say It Was 'Wrong' to Exploit Racial Conflict for Votes By Mike Allen Post Thursday, July 14, 2005; A04 It was called "the southern strategy," started under Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and described Republican efforts to use race as a wedge issue -- on matters such as desegregation and busing -- to appeal to white southern voters. Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, this morning will tell the NAACP national convention in Milwaukee that it was "wrong." "By the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out," Mehlman says in his prepared text. "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong." Mehlman, a Baltimore native who managed President Bush's reelection campaign, goes on to discuss current overtures to minorities, calling it "not healthy for the country for our political parties to be so racially polarized." The party lists century-old outreach efforts in a new feature on its Web site, GOP.com, which was relaunched yesterday with new interactive features and a history section called "Lincoln's Legacy." Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean spoke to the NAACP yesterday and said through an aide: "It's no coincidence that 43 out of 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus are Democrats. The Democratic Party is the real party of opportunity for African Americans."