…at least when it comes to party diversity, that is, especially since some Republicans’ quick-draw rhetoric continues to “shoot themselves in the foot”
Quick: before Jake Knotts or some other “respected Republican leader” takes aim once again, please remind all Republicans that the 2nd Amendment – the time-honored “right to bear arms” – is about physical self-protection, not political self-mutilation.
Knotts’ recent “raghead” comment in reference to South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and President Obama stands as more ammunition bolstering the argument against urban residents considering the Republican Party in November 2010.
Sadly, those that continue to claim that Republicans need to revert back to the days of the mid 20th-century also miss out that honoring the heyday of Southern Strategy – with all of its divisiveness – will not fly in today’s political climate. Even as more Americans become unconvinced of President Obama’s initiatives to end this recession or Democrats’ leadership in Congress, the moderate and independent voting blocs are still less likely to vote Republican in 2010 as long as some party leaders are willing to flaunt their unwillingness to diversify their ranks culturally.
South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts’ comment comes as the latest in a line of anti-diversity actions that are offered only out of racial division. For every action that hard-working conservatives and Republicans put into place, there seems to be a move by a Republican activist or official that shoots the good intentions of the GOP right in the foot. In the conservative quest to get drive out RINOs (Republican In Name Only) from the GOP, there is a section of Republicans that continue to shoot the Republican Party right in the…well, you know.
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The problem goes back to the criticism that some younger voters have with the Tea Party movement and the 2009-2010 conservative upswing: without more Republicans expressing a clear, tangible, and effective way of articulating their messages and solutions for non-traditional voters, the only political firepower that the political right has for these voters comes from a small group of conservatives that are apt to shoot off at the mouth with all of the wrong rhetoric to voice. Since the Era of Obama, not enough conservatives are winning the trust of moderate voters, even as the political tide is swinging away from Democrats. Unfortunately, these voters are looking for different solutions than what they have been given by Congress over the past 4 years from Democrats, but they still find themselves unable to look past the continued faux pas of legacy Republicans more intent of “reclaiming their party” than they are with winning by accepting the new realities within America: namely, that diversity is a reality and that bigotry is intolerable.
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