10 Ways Republicans have Blown their Own Minority Outreach Strategy (Nation of Change)

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10 Ways Republicans have Blown their Own Minority Outreach Strategy

The Republican National Committee had what seemed like easy advice for the rest of the GOP after the 2012 election: Stop inflaming racism and expand the voter base beyond male, white America. After a disastrous few months since the RNC autopsy report, they tried again Thursday, with an event celebrating the “rising stars” in the Republican Party.

But Republican leaders worry its already too late, as Politico reported on Friday, “influential Republicans told us the party is actually in a worse place than it was Nov. 7, the day after the disastrous election.” Republicans have repeatedly gotten in their own way of appealing to Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans. Here are just a few examples:

1. Voted to deport DREAMers: With DREAMers standing in the room and booing, 221 House Republicans voted to defund the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which would effectively resume deportations. Meanwhile, comprehensive immigration reform has come to a grinding halt in the House, which has split on whether to include a path to citizenship.

2. Suppressed minority votes: Immediately after the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act, Texas moved to enact a voter ID law and North Carolina rolled out a series of voter suppression bills. Texas has now joined a case to permanently undo Voting Rights Act protections. It doesn’t help matters that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia called the Voting Rights Act a perpetuation of “racial entitlement.”

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[zbdent]

1. 0. Opened their mouths and spoke their minds ...

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Yep - they definitely opened their mouth and have blown the minority

outreach for sure.

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Does anyone believe ...

that the modern gop seeks, sought, or even thought about reaching out to minorities?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. For a (brief) moment after the election I thought that they *might*

Immigration reform seemed like it would be accomplished for awhile and if the House would hold a vote on it, it might actually make it but Boehner is back to using the anti-Democratic "Hastert rule" and allowing their base to determine the outcome of that legislation it seems, which, if that holds, we can kiss it goodbye for this Congress at least. Their "base"- the teabaggers that they purposefully invited into their tent in 2009 and 2010- are the ones calling the shots now and all of us are worse off because of it.

[BlueDemKev]

6. We should know better.

...than to think that the Rethugs would be the least bit cooperative after an election defeat. We thought for sure they would moderate somewhat after the Bush presidency unraveled and their humiliating defeat in the 2008 elections.

When Rethugs lose, they double-down, rally their right-wing base by claiming that they're somehow "losing their country" and literally SHRIEK their anti-government, pro-freedom rhetoric at the top of their lungs while we liberals fight among ourselves trying to get even the most simple legislation passed.

There is no reasoning with these assholes. The only option we have is to defeat them at the voting booth over and over and OVER again until either A) the Republican Party realizes that they can never win by being so extreme, or B) enough of the old white farts die off causing the tea party to disappear.

The bottom line is, we MUST defeat them at the polls. Every election, every time...we must get out and VOTE. Midterms, presidential, special elections, whatever. Our base must be at the polls voting no matter what.

Get registered, get a government-issued picture ID if you don't already have one, and find out when and where to vote. Find out about early voting as well as absentee voting. Do whatever it takes to make sure that you VOTE in every election, every time!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. There was never any outreach strategy. It was *feigned*. The Republican Party has never been serious

about reaching out to minorities. They are too fucking racist for that.

[supernova]

7. This assumes they wanted minority outreach

The GOP doesn't want minority outreach. They want to appear so, while still coddling their favorite children, white men.