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To: joseffy who wrote (54952)	8/30/2012 1:32:18 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Forsaking The Democrat 'Plantation' Politics: The stars of the GOP curtain-raiser in Tampa weren't top-billed Gov. Chris Christie or even Ann Romney. They were two young black conservatives the Democrats don't want you to know. They are also whom MSNBC, which cut away from their speeches, doesn't want voters to see on a stage the pro-Obama network hoped would be filled with old white men. Democrat defector Artur Davis, who seconded the official nomination of Barack Obama four years ago, stepped onto the Republican convention stage and blasted his former party for pushing rigid leftist nostrums that have failed to lift minorities out of the recession. "We don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering," said Davis, a Harvard Law grad. "Bill Clinton took on his base and made welfare a thing you had to work for," he added. "This current crowd guts the welfare requirement in the dead of the night." Davis, 44, scolded Obama and Democrats for glorifying the Occupy Wall Street movement, demonizing business success and fomenting class envy. "When they tell you America is this unequal place where the powerful trample on the powerless," he said, "do you even recognize the America they are talking about?" Then Davis explained why he was the only Congressional Black Caucus member to vote against ObamaCare: Democrats "rammed through a health care bill that took over one-sixth of our economy, without accepting a single Republican idea, without winning a single vote in either house from a party whose constituents make up about 50% of the country." He followed on the dais 36-year-old Mia Love, who's battling to take a House seat from an incumbent Democrat in Utah. The race is one of the top five national pickup opportunities for Republicans. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Love gave a rousing speech rejecting Obama's collectivist vision of America. "The America I grew up knowing was centered on self-reliance," she asserted. If she wins, Love would be the first black Republican woman in Congress. She said in a January interview with the Deseret News that she'd join the Black Caucus, but only to "try to take that thing apart from the inside out." "They sit there and ignite racism when there isn't (any)," she explained. "They use their positions to instill fear" in minorities. Black leaders use the same fear to keep young black political hopefuls in the Democratic camp. But it's no longer working. "One thing that's happening in the Republican Party that the Democratic Party can't say," noted Davis in a June interview with The Root, is that "African-Americans who don't live in African-American communities are having a chance to serve their country at the political level." He cited Reps. Allen West and Tim Scott, who in 2010 won GOP seats in white districts in Florida and South Carolina, as well as Love, who would continue the trend if she wins her white Utah district. And Davis himself may make a run at a white district in Virginia. The trend proves that unlike Democrats, Republicans have no skin test. What matters are ideas and ability. Younger blacks are tired of Democrats taking their votes for granted. And they're tired of having to march in lockstep with an increasingly leftist ideology that has kept so many African-Americans trapped on, as West calls it, a "21st century plantation" run by big government overseers. "In the next decade, as Republicans talk more about really shaking up our schools, making the way we pay for entitlements more fair and streamlining government to make it more efficient, then more younger African-Americans are going to say, 'I hear some sound arguments over there, and I see people like me over there succeeding and thriving regardless of race,'" Davis said. "That's going to be what pulls African-Americans into the (Republican) party over the next decade," he said. No wonder Democrats are worried.

To: joseffy who wrote (54952)	8/30/2012 1:34:08 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

GOP Convention Exposes Bigotry And Hatred On The Left Hypocrisy: Liberals love to label conservatives as bigots and haters. But the Republican National Convention has exposed where such miscreants find a comfortable home these days: among the mainstream press and the liberal elite. On NBC this week, Chris Matthews launched into an unhinged rant about how Mitt Romney was playing the "race card" by talking about work requirements in welfare. Never mind the racist assumption underlying Matthews' complaint; it's NBC — along with much of the rest of the mainstream press — that's been playing the race card. Another case in point: NBC News blacklisted all the minorities from its Web page highlighting "notable speeches" from the GOP convention Tuesday night. And the network's hyperpartisan cable arm, MSNBC, refused to show them during its live coverage, cutting away each time to its lefty panel. It's worth pointing out that one of the speakers — Rep. Artur Davis — is a Democratic Party defector who seconded Obama's nomination four years ago, making his appearance at the GOP convention highly newsworthy. The Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, accused the GOP of trying to put "a brown face on a white party" by featuring minority speakers. And an ABC News webcast inadvertently caught Yahoo's (now former) Washington bureau chief, David Chalian, telling a colleague about how Republicans "are happy to have a party with black people drowning." Then there's the religious bigotry the liberal press feels increasingly free to express against a minority religion, so long as one of its practitioners happens to be a Republican presidential candidate. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell charged earlier this year that "Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid." Chris Matthews called Mormons "cultists," and New York Times columnist Charles Blow tweeted that Mitt Romney should "stick that in your magic underwear" — a bigoted remark referring to a Mormon religious practice. Things only get worse when you venture further out among the liberal elite. Here's just a tiny sampling of the kind of tolerance and open-mindedness you can expect to find there these days. • After Mia Love — a black candidate running for a House seat from Utah — finished her widely praised convention speech, liberals flocked to Wikipedia to deface her page, calling Love a "house nigger" and "dirty, worthless whore." On Twitter, they labeled her "Aunt Tom." • Self-proclaimed open-minded actress Ellen Barkin, apparently incapable of understanding irony, retweeted a message to her 103,000 followers expressing hope that Hurricane Isaac would "wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-women, xenophobic, gay-bashing racist SOC right into the ocean!" • Samuel L. Jackson complained about "Unfair s--t. GOP spared by Isaac!" • A left-winger created a "Kill Mitt Romney" page on Facebook "advocating the murder of (the) Republican presidential candidate." It got dozens of "likes" before Facebook took it down. • Cher took to Twitter to express her fondest wish that pro-life Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin would "get raped by man with HIV/AIDS." • Comedian Jon Lovitz reports getting death threats after he started openly criticizing Obama. "I know where you eat," one warned. Tell us again how bigotry and hatred can only be found on the right? "What I find bizarre is how the 'liberals' are bringing up race (and) saying shut the f--k up," Lovitz told Breitbart's Big Hollywood, "I thought you were liberal. You should be tolerant of everybody whether they agree with you or not." Boy, that Lovitz guy sure is a hater.