GOP Puts Up Major Black Candidates

This election year the GOP is putting its money and muscle behind black candidates for important posts (see USA Today story from May 10th, "Black GOP Candidates Could Signal Shift in Allegiance," at this link). In Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Republican candidates for governor are black. In Maryland, the Republican candidate for an open U.S. Senate seat is black. It appears likely that in all of these major elections the opponent of the black Republican candidate will be a white Democrat. So much for the rainbow coalition of the Democratic Party. I guess the rainbow just can't compete with the dictates and ambitions of white Democratic liberal politicians seeking to move up the political ladder.

In a different context, we see the same sort of thing currently in New Orleans where the Democratic National Committee, according to one credible independent political analyst, is going all out to crown liberal white Democrat Mitch Landrieu as the new mayor to replace, of all things, a black Democratic incumbent (the election is on May 20th). Although incumbent black New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is a Democrat, he is conservative and pro-business compared to liberal Landrieu who is just a cog in the liberal Democratic political machine run by Howard Dean. The national Democrats have targeted Nagin, who is a maverick with conservative leanings--he dared to endorse a few years ago the Republican candidate for governor in Louisiana and has alienated the political cronies of a prior Democratic mayoral administration engulfed in scandal and federal investigations--because they need reliably liberal Landrieu to rebuild the machine's base of docile, poverty-stricken minority voters in New Orleans. That base is crucial to the political future of Landrieu's sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, whose own liberal credentials are unquestioned and to her brother's own ambitions to become governor. Liberal Democrats can't win statewide in Louisiana without a big turnout of black voters in the terrible, crime-infested neighborhoods of New Orleans.

In fact, in keeping with the theme of Republicans backing black candidates, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was recently endorsed by the strongest Republican candidate who did not make the runoff election. So the Republicans have crossed the color line. The Democrats seem to have put the careers of white liberals first. It looks like we are returning to the Party of Lincoln fast, while the Democrats remain stuck in the same old model of liberal manipulation of poor, fearful voters. With the rejuvenated Party of Lincoln, those voters will get an alternative that is long overdue. That is good news for Catholic and other Christian voters who are pro-life and who favor school vouchers, two ideas that will be of immeasurable benefit to African-Americans who are decimated both by abortion and by terrible public school systems. Abortion and the trap of horrible inner city public school systems are two awful realities that have the fingerprints of liberal Democrats all over them.