BlackRepub's blog

There has been a lot of talk about race and identity politics during this campaign, perhaps more than any other political campaign in history. The media and pundits are showing this election as a classic case of the old America vs. the new America, the crusty old white guy against the young, hip, cosmopolitan Black candidate. However, this is not a blog about the media’s tingle in the leg that they get for Obama, or even the Obamessiah himself. I want to talk about Obama’s hopeandchangeandhopeandchange and their effects on Obama’s supposed base of the urban poor.

Lately, we're all supposed to be courting these supposed "moderate" Clinton voters, who are allegedly soooooo disgusted with Barry O that they are willing to do the unthinkable and instead of pulling the lever for their liberal candidate, they are going to go ahead and pull the lever for our liber...er the Republican. But in Hinzsight are these the people that we want on our side to win?

The last time I wrote this diary I got mostly comments about my decision to withhold support from John McCain out of his many, many breaks from conservative principles. I do not want this diary to focus on John McCain, rather I would like to take this diary to focus on conservative principles and the New Contract with America that I have drawn up in order to move the Conservative Movement forward. There is no sense in arguing about our nominee any longer ladies and gentlemen. We will go in, vote against Obama, take a good clean shower afterwards, and continue to move forward with our lives.

Promoted by Steven Foley - Good work brother!

Allow me to preface this by saying that this is a conversation with conservatives, and if you have nothing to add but McCain is a conservative! Get over it! Get in line! , this diary is not for you. The purpose of this is not McCain, but how to properly move the Conservative movement forward in American politics. I mean conservatives of the Thompson, Reagan, Goldwater variety. If you are not interested in having this discussion but fighting about conservatism than please move on. Thank you.

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This week, I experienced the second best moment in my life, after the first birth of my son. On Friday May 23, the lovely Caitlin Whitehead became the even lovelier Caitlin Donnella, and two souls became one. We have become so much closer in this first week of marriage, and the feeling of love and beauty is irreplaceable. I enjoy my youthful idealism right now more than anything in my life. My wife gives me the extra strength that I already have to continue to push and to persevere through anything.

So today, we learned that John McCain does not intend to pander to full blooded conservatives; rather he intends to continue to harness his Maverick, BiPartisan, NewTone image to convince his friends in the media that he's really not one of "those" Republicans. The effect of this of course may be that he does indeed get elected to the White House, but by distancing himself from mainstream Republicans as he intends to do, he is going to kill the GOP's prospects downticket. Where has he strayed off of the reservation this time, you ask? What has he done to warrant an entire blog?

Someone posed the question on RedState today, and I wanted to toss it out for you good folks over here at TMR, what is it that we want from the Republican Party?