Steele Pitches Outreach to Minorities . . .

. . . in his NEXT Term.

Well Mike, you didn't do great on your first term.

Steele Pitches Outreach To Minorities, Non-Republicans In RNC Chair Debate

by Sam Stein

"WASHINGTON -- Monday's debate between incumbent Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and his challengers lacked the fireworks and recriminations that many expected. The candidates offered wide agreement on predictable subjects: They declared voter fraud a major problem, the Tea Party a godsend, spending out of control and abortion due to be outlawed.

Some of the candidates stressed unity, too. "The bigger issue is saving our country," Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus said. "We can save our party along the way."

"In the last ten years, one of the biggest failures of the Republican Party was too much spending," Ann Wagner of Missouri, a former RNC co-chair, said in another typical boilerplate statement. There wasn't much debate on either issue.

Considering that the committee chair is primarily a campaign position and its holder doesn't actually set party policy, the exercise was less an ideological litmus test than a dress rehearsal for the public stage that the winner will assume. With that in mind, Steele returned to an argument he used during his first bid for the chair: Among the field of candidates, he said, he best understands the necessity of reaching minority voters.

"We stopped talking to people," said Steele of his party's downfall in earlier election cycles. "We stopped trying to connect directly with people. We stopped expanding and reaching. We are the party of Lincoln, we are the party that understands the value of the individual in this American enterprise ... When we stopped talking to our friends in the Latino community and the African American community, and when we stopped engaging with individuals and we make assumptions about, 'Well, they don't vote for us anyway,' that's when we really start to lose. And going forward, we will lose big if we lose sight of the fact that America is not the America of the 1950s or 1960 or even the 1990s. It is a very different day."

For more on article click below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/michael-steele-rnc-debate-pitch-outreach_n_803761.html

 

Hahaha. The Republican Party is the de facto White Grievance Party, and as such couldn't reach out to African-Americans or Latinos en masse even if it wanted to, other than as tokens like Steele himself is. Such outreach is anathema to its core mission: Preserve White Privilege (not that there's anything wrong with that, just call it what it is). There are rank-and-file minorities that co-sign the RNC/Tea Party message but they only exist to make televised RNC functions look "diverse."

 

What a joke! He will be laughed off the room. The party is messed up and with the talk of getting rid of health care reform in the Congress,he will have a hard time convincing those minorities.

 

KC,you hit it on the head. Those conservatives in that party that used to free the slaves is now the party of the scions of slave owners. For example they want vouchers for inner-city kids but, reject them after graduation because they would receive Affirmative Action in colleges and jobs.

 

Conservatives never freed the slaves. Liberals did. These people just make you sick.

 

Steele's Black Outreach Strategy

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/07/14/steele_chicken

"I Got The Fried Chicken." -- Michael Steele