Republican National Committee chair reaches out to African Americans in Pr

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.gazette.net/200505/princegeorgescty/updates/259275-1.html

Ken Mehlman, the newly elected head of the Republican National Committee, chose to make his first official event appearance in Prince George’s County on Feb. 8 in a campaign to attract GOP supporters.

"We’re now making a real effort to make up for time lost," Mehlman told a full house at Prince George’s Community College. "If you give us a chance we’ll give you a choice." Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who introduced Mehlman, said that the Republican party had done a disservice to African-American and minority voters by not paying them enough attention.

"You weren’t the ones who walked away from the party; the party walked away from you," Steele posited. "This is about the party walking back to African Americans ."

Mehlman said that the GOP, traditionally not the choice of African-American voters in national or local elections, wanted minorities to realize that representation by one party, typically the Democratic Party, had in fact relegated minorities to the political back seat.

[Sandpiper]

1. GOP to Blacks: Just ignore our race baiting over the past 40 years

And vote for us!

[roguevalley]

2. This is rich. They are using gay bigotry to appeal to this group

and the one meeting them is gay. How fucked is that?

[blm]

3. So, the RNC is using a gay guy to scare blacks against gay marriage.

And the media lets them get away with that utter hypocrisy.

[Javaman]

4. "We’re now making a real effort to make up for time lost"...

what the fuck?? That would be 141 years of lost time, you fucking jackass!! And if this rascist moron would do a little reading, he would see that Lincoln changed parties in 1864. Even Lincoln couldn't stomach them.