CPAC 'GOP minority outreach' panel goes as well as you'd expect

[Joe Republic]

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Good job, conservatives!  You can do it! 





... oh.

[Likely Voter]

Should have called it the Benghazi Minority Outreach Panel

[King]

Considering Elroy Sailor and Robert Woodson are both non-white, it actually beat my expectations this year.

[badgate]

Should have called it the Benghazi Minority Outreach Panel

[Brittain33]

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[Antonio the Sixth]

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The level of candor is amazing. "We don't win minorities because we don't want to do anything to help them."

[All Along The Watchtower]

It's telling that the GOP thinks minority voters are won over by "goodies." Do they think whites vote for them for that reason?

[tik 🪀✨]

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The level of candor is amazing. "We don't win minorities because we don't want to do anything to help them."

From our perspective, of course. From their own viewpoint, the point of not giving the "handout" is so that they must learn to improve themselves on their own. They genuinely believe that giving rich people and businesses less of a tax burden and fewer regulations that this will tangibly help poorer minorities. They aren't entirely wrongheaded there, I have to say. We do need job opportunities for poorer minorities, and, well, perhaps there are better ways to govern that still have adequate safeguards against business-related corruption and abuse that also provide incentives for more generous capitalists to set up shop (they must exist sometimes, right?)

They don't, overall, hate poorer minorities. They just misunderstand their problems in the first place, I think. I don't really understand their problems myself probably. I'm not a poor minority. Maybe I'm giving them too much leeway, but I genuinely believe they think their way really does help people. They see it as the more difficult, honorable way, and our way as the easy way out that doesn't end up doing anyone any good for very long.

It's the old "teach a man to fish" crap. I'd just like to explain to them that it's hard to grasp how to fish when you've nearly starved to death. They don't get that without these "goodies" people are going to die, or, instead of learning to fish, learn to sell drugs. Or something like that. I should avoid molesting proverbs.

[Brittain33]

The issue here is that a minority outreach panel defaults to "minority voters want stuff from the government, unlike our rugged individualist whites” which is kind of racist and shows the usual blind spot to "goodies” the Republican base loves.

[Heimdal]

The issue here is that a minority outreach panel defaults to "minority voters want stuff from the government, unlike our rugged individualist whites” which is kind of racist and shows the usual blind spot to "goodies” the Republican base loves.

It isn't a "goodie" when the receivers are old white people (like Medicare). It starts being a “goodie” when the recipients are minorities in urban areas (like food stamps).

[Likely Voter]

What about the whole premise that minority = poor person wanting government handouts? Maybe that is part of the problem? Is the reason 90%+ of blacks vote for Dems because they are all getting 'goodies'?

[IceSpear]

The issue here is that a minority outreach panel defaults to "minority voters want stuff from the government, unlike our rugged individualist whites” which is kind of racist and shows the usual blind spot to "goodies” the Republican base loves.

It isn't a "goodie" when the receivers are old white people (like Medicare). It starts being a “goodie” when the recipients are minorities in urban areas (like food stamps).

Even poor white trailer trash will take food stamps and government bennies without a second thought. When they get it, they "earned it". It only counts as "welfare" if it's for Shaniqua and her 8 kids in Chicago.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I can explain the empty room, at least...

When I was at the Americans for Prosperity summit, I had the option to go to an energy policy panel with Senator Ron Johnson, a panel on the dangers of a solar flare (I kid you not), and a panel on Conservative Humor: How to beat Liberals with Sarcasm, hosted by Greg Gutfield. Guess which panel had 99% of the audience in attendance. I briefly went to the Johnson panel, but when he didn't even show up on time, I went to the Gutfeld one (which was standing room only) and listened from behind the giant screen. I was an inch away from meeting that pretentious midget, as well as the vile Dana Loesch.

[King]

To be fair, only 47% of the voting populous is male, so the GOP does have a good handle over one minority group...

[anvi]

The government collects tax revenues, so the only essential question on the table after that is who the "goodies" get passed out to.  Those to whom politicians are not willing to hand out goodies will not give them support.  GOP is grasping onto an increasing share of a shrinking market.  Translation: dear GOP, you're laying the groundwork for another bashing in 2016.  Enjoy.

[hopper]

The issue here is that a minority outreach panel defaults to "minority voters want stuff from the government, unlike our rugged individualist whites” which is kind of racist and shows the usual blind spot to "goodies” the Republican base loves.

It isn't a "goodie" when the receivers are old white people (like Medicare). It starts being a “goodie” when the recipients are minorities in urban areas (like food stamps).

No Medicare people pay into out of their paychecks. It has nothing to do with color either from the GOP's point of view. I don't think the GOP wants white people living off Government Benes the rest of their life either.

[Indy Texas]

Don't we have a thread about this every year during CPAC?

Seems better than last year when that guy complained about how tough it is to be a white male these days...

[Bacon King]

The issue here is that a minority outreach panel defaults to "minority voters want stuff from the government, unlike our rugged individualist whites” which is kind of racist and shows the usual blind spot to "goodies” the Republican base loves.

It isn't a "goodie" when the receivers are old white people (like Medicare). It starts being a “goodie” when the recipients are minorities in urban areas (like food stamps).

No Medicare people pay into out of their paychecks. It has nothing to do with color either from the GOP's point of view. I don't think the GOP wants white people living off Government Benes the rest of their life either.

A couple reaching retirement age today, on average, will receive triple the Medicare benefits compared to what they paid in Medicare taxes.

[publicunofficial]

"grumblegrumble OBAMAPHONES grumblegrumble" - CPAC attendees on minority outreach

[Indy Texas]

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Yes, because America was such a great place to live in 1814 if you were a black person or a woman or a non-Protestant Christian.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

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Yes, because America was such a great place to live in 1814 if you were a black person or a woman or a non-Protestant Christian.

It wasn't even until 1856 that all white men could vote. You had to be a property owner.

Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans were eligible to cast a ballot for George Washington.

[Smash255]

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I wonder if they put voters from areas like Rosedale Queens into this category......

[Ban my account ffs!]

I am absolutely loving how slowly... ever so slowly... the Democrats are beginning to control the narrative.

Watching Republicans begin to do what the Dems did for the past 35 years is such sweet victory.

[hopper]

I am absolutely loving how slowly... ever so slowly... the Democrats are beginning to control the narrative.

Watching Republicans begin to do what the Dems did for the past 35 years is such sweet victory.

Can you go into detail about this statement?

I think the Dems controlling narrative is about them having the liberal media and the demography changes at their back. The other is the Republicans weak messaging and the Republicans totally turning off Hispanics at the polls and also the Republicans not modifying their policies to adapt to the changing demography of the electorate.

[hopper]

The issue here is that a minority outreach panel defaults to "minority voters want stuff from the government, unlike our rugged individualist whites” which is kind of racist and shows the usual blind spot to "goodies” the Republican base loves.

It isn't a "goodie" when the receivers are old white people (like Medicare). It starts being a “goodie” when the recipients are minorities in urban areas (like food stamps).

No Medicare people pay into out of their paychecks. It has nothing to do with color either from the GOP's point of view. I don't think the GOP wants white people living off Government Benes the rest of their life either.

A couple reaching retirement age today, on average, will receive triple the Medicare benefits compared to what they paid in Medicare taxes.

True.