(01-10-2018 12:47 PM)JustAnotherAustinOwlStill Wrote:  Really I could come up with 100 other examples, but what's the point? If the GOP thinks it's doing great minority outreach, more power to them, who am I to stop them?

If republicans think they are doing a good job of minority outreach, then they are only kidding themselves. I find that particularly infuriating, because how hard can it be to offer a better deal than the welfare plantation? I mean, how hard is it to expose LBJ’s, “Keep ‘em dumb, keep ‘em poor, keep ‘em dependent on handouts, and you’ll keep ‘em voting democrat,” approach for the miserable fraud that it is?

One reason, of course, is that it is going to be hard, at least initially, to undo 50+ years of inertia. The Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world aren’t going to take kindly to anyone messing with their gravy train. But I have to believe there’s a way for the party of Lincoln to do a better job.