Interesting thought over at the Washington Post this morning.
Quick — think of the three faces of the Republican party: Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich immediately come to mind.
What do these men all have in common? They are over 50 years old, male, white and staunchly conservative.
That — in a nutshell — is the problem facing Republicans today, an imbroglio cast in sharp relief by a new analysis by Gallup of more than 26,000 interviews conducted in May.
Nearly nine in ten (89 percent) Republicans are white with the vast majority of those people describing themselves as “conservative” (63 percent). Just seven percent of Republicans are either Hispanic (five percent) or black (two percent).
Wait! Wait! Isn’t there a negro over there? I’m almost positive there is! Wasn’t he all “GOP and Hip-Hop” and stuff? What happened? He didn’t make the GOP cool? Everyone didn’t immediately mistake him for Obama?
That was a horrible plan. Perhaps its not about diversity GOP. Perhaps its about not being the Evil Empire. If you guys stopped being cartoony assholes perhaps you’d attract minorities and wouldn’t have to find them as if their name was Nemo.
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