I think Republicans will never win with minorities because all they do is demean them.
When does the special ingredient in the Democratic Kool-Aid start to kick in?
Here's a secret about many professional Democrats: They do NOT want minorities to see their standard of living improve. Why? Because these Democrats want minorities to be dependent upon Democratic politicians every election season...
Here are some prominent Republican minorities: Marco Rubio, Susana Martinez, Bobby Jindal, Allen West, J.C. Watts, Condi Rice, Gary Franks, Herman Cain, Alan Keyes, Colin Powell, Claude Allen, Peter Boulware, Kenneth Blackwell, Michael Steele, Lynn Swann, Thurman Thomas, Clarence Thomas, etc.
Martin Luther King, Sr. was a lifelong Republican.
There were 32 African-American Republican candidates for Congress in 2010.
I am a Democrat, and I have been in meetings where union leaders cracked off-color jokes. I have never seen such behavior among professional Republicans (e.g., not even among Deep South delegates at the RNC).
The Republican Party of the 21st Century wants to improve the standard of living for people of all backgrounds. They do not believe that a culture of dependency, a mentality of entitlement, will move us forward towards a color blind society. Obviously Republicans are repulsed by people such as the "Obama Phone Lady," but race has nothing to do with it.
None of these non-white candidates--African-American, Hispainc, or Asian--won little more than the typical small share of the non-white vote. No matter how fine or poor the individual candidates may've been, when they ran on the traditional GP platform of the last 30 years they were decimated outside of white voters--just like white GOP candidates.
for that same readon, don't expect for one second that Latino (non-Cuban) voters will even begin to forgive "stonewalling amnesty" by putting a handsome brown face on the ticket like Rubio. The problem here is content, not packaging; and until you and your ilk accept that at heart the GOP is going to be increasingly weakened.
Put another way, it's hard to see where the Democratic Party can go anywhere but up in winning over white working class voters; the same can't be said of the GOP and non-whites. But regardless, even if the parties simply hold steady for each, the GOP won't win another national election in our lifetime.
