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How Conservatives Can Win
in Blue-State America: Lessons
from South Africa´s Opposition
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/11/2012 9:12:28 AM
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| The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the party’s core policies, from immigration to taxation to social issues. The conventional wisdom is wrong. I once worked in South Africa for a centrist
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1, 11/11/2012 9:32:56 AM (No. 9006830)
FTA: " Rumor has it that Paul Ryan wanted to take the Republican argument to inner cities and make the argument for individual freedom..."
Thus bypassing the LSM propaganda which ensures the ignorant inner city types remain ignorant. The RNC and establishment types are very much libtards. Ryan had the right idea. The old RNC dinosaurs can´t expire too soon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
maggie2u, 11/11/2012 9:35:17 AM (No. 9006843)
We need to do what the world did to South Africa. Boycott racists. That means we no longer have anything to do with blacks, don´t watch their TV shows or movies, don´t go to their concerts or buy their CD´s. Don´t go to athletic events where the majority of athletes are black. Don´t go into shops that are owned by blacks. No one here would associate with white racists so why should we put up with black racists?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/11/2012 9:36:22 AM (No. 9006844)
#2
You cannot free slaves who don´t wish to be free.
The CBC has made their lives on the plantation something desirable.
Sane people will never be able to understand that mentality.
I have given up trying, or for that matter caring.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 11/11/2012 9:48:13 AM (No. 9006868)
Great advice. It´s especially important to note that change is incremental. Not that long ago Republicans were getting 15% of the black vote. That could be a goal going forward.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tomishere, 11/11/2012 10:15:07 AM (No. 9006930)
That´s right #3 lets get the blacks. Never mind it was women that moved back to Obama to give him his win. Shall we boycott womens businesses and shows. The problem is not that blacks voted for Obama, the problem is conservative traitors stayed home on election day.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gator, 11/11/2012 10:15:21 AM (No. 9006931)
To hell with winning back a nation of leeches, it’s time to fire on Fort Sumter, and start our own Tea Party government. The other side will very soon collapse under the weight of their own debt and corruption. Then we take back what’s left of them under our terms. Just dreaming.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/11/2012 10:46:14 AM (No. 9007008)
South Africa is the model? Good luck with it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sinatra5, 11/11/2012 11:01:02 AM (No. 9007039)
Tell me your kidding...South Africa is doing well? Please read this article, if you dare, and tell me things are just great in South Africa
Genocide and Communism Threaten South Africa
http://thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/13280-genocide-communism-threaten-south-africa
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
redmom, 11/11/2012 11:10:57 AM (No. 9007068)
Pollack is so right! Only a week before the election, some Black activists in Chicago were protesting an Obama fund raiser, and then marched to protest against NBC being racist.
There was a link in the comments under the article to the video. The most humorous part was the protestors telling the people INSIDE NBC they weren´t there to hurt them, they´re just tired of ACORN and Rainbow push.
We have to find a way to show the young people in inner city neighborhoods that the way out is not through crime, but hard work. Why aren´t we mentoring them in the American dream?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
redmom, 11/11/2012 11:11:54 AM (No. 9007070)
Sorry: Pollak- fingers typing faster than brain function.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Roark, 11/11/2012 12:20:15 PM (No. 9007214)
For as long as I have been paying attention, the GOP gets trapped into following the dance of the Democrats. I´m seeing the calls now on how to deal with the Latino issue and women’s issues the like. The GOP will always fail at been Democrat Lite.
Pollak brings forth a template with considerable merit. Its not how well South Africa is doing, but how the Democratic Alliance grew their influence and how those ideas can be employed here. The GOP needs to start thinking in terms of 20 years, not 2. They have to start out ACORNing ACORN. Boots-on-the-ground where it counts.
The college-level education system was lost long ago. The GOP needs to develop its own education system that takes entrepreneurialism, freedom and independence to the very places that need it most. Which is pretty much everywhere. And most importantly, such a system can’t look, taste or smell anything GOP. This is something that will take generations to mature. Its called commitment.
If anyone saw the county-by-county popular vote map, you can instantly see the USA is NOT a center-left country by a long shot. And that is how it looks with suppressed voter turn-out. Commenter #7 is close in his/her evaluations, but any system must be worked within the system we already have. Stealth. Entrepreneurialism. Freedom. Independence. Stick to those issues and Latino and women’s issues and the like take care of themselves.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/11/2012 12:57:20 PM (No. 9007292)
Good article, good advice. However, the Dems have one thing the GOP will never have - Big Media in the pocket.
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A three-minute video of Sarah Merkle’s testimony about Maryland’s new gun legislation has drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, won her praise from gun rights advocates across the country and even scored her an interview on national television last week. But the 15-year-old from Baltimore said she cares more about her message. “The biggest part of this is that the pro-gun, Second Amendment argument is getting publicity,” she said. “I like that it actually got out there, and not just because it’s me, but because it’s the argument.”
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:17:33 PM
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The world’s greatest deliberative body has started to look a lot like its legislative little brother over the past few years. The Senate was once regarded as the home of the great political orators of the time — not to mention the body where true dealmaking actually took place. Its members prided themselves on their cool approach to legislating, in contrast with the more brawling nature of the House. Senators, generally, liked one another — no matter their party — and weren’t afraid to show it, either personally or politically. No longer. The Senate has undergone a marked transformation
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An act of political malpractice
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Hillary Clinton Would Not
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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