I have been warning the Republican Party about the role of minorities in the party. Now all of a sudden all across the nation is how do we get more Blacks into the party. I mean Jesus, we just now figuring this out? Maybe if you put some money behind outreach programs we can go further.
For example, the constant excuses I hear coming out the 14th District alone in Wayne County is asinine. On one end you want to defeat Congressman John Conyers but will not do any homework to plan, strategize and run the most effective candidate. The excuse is everyone in Detroit will vote for Conyers. You would be surprised of how many people want Conyers out because of his age. Also, there are TONS of young people in Detroit who voted for Obama simply because McCain did not even show up in the inner city. In fact, he did not show up in ANY inner city in Michigan and I can see why. What urban message was he going to convey?
This is so blindingly obvious that only an entire political party could get it wrong. Food for thought. Anyway, it's all interesting...so read it! But the part that concerns us immediately is this:
President-elect Barack Obama has engaged in a brand new electorate called young people. These young people are looking to Obama’s plan for change and have dismissed the core values that has helped us become a nation. What’s worse is that no one in the Republican Party had a TRUE answer for Obama.
If you want young people to join the GOP then you need a reason to bring them to the party.
When we look at how our party is ran is it ran like a natural grassroots operations or is it ran like a telemarketing campaign? We spend more time on the phone than going out in public. We have to get up off our asses and actually walk into the very community where liberal ideology has taken root for decades. No, you cannot send me in, as a Black Republican, to spin the issues either. I simply will not do it so you can sit in the office and work. The real work is OUTSIDE the doors.
There's simply no way conservatives and Republicans can move forward without any excitement from "young people." (Maybe it's because we call them "young people." Listen to me! And I'm 23!) There's an idea that young people are just a lot more liberal, but there are a lot of basically conservative ideas coming from the kids. We youths love localism--anathema to the kind of statism we've been fighting for years. We're concerned about education, health care, and the environment--areas that conservatives have needlessly retreated from for decades. The truth is that the new and innovative solutions are found on the Right, but no politician will give them a voice. We need politicians to find that voice for the general welfare of our citizens, and humanity in general, in opposition to the ideologically-driven special interests of the education establishment and unions.
But the real work isn't in front of the computer screen, or at some Republican Party event. Like Akindele says, it's OUTSIDE! We need to engage the people whose values we know we share, but with whom we've been unable to connect. Maybe that's because the strongest connections are personal, not ideological...and of all people, conservatives should never forget that.
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