I think this article has a lot of parallels to the article by Pam Meister Conservatives: Licking Their Wounds or Looking Ahead?
As the article says, Blacks have voted 90-95% Democratic since the 60′s and because of that they have zero political power. Monolithic voting blocs have a long history of being pandered to and then ignored. Worse though, Blacks have paid a very high price for their allegiance to the Democratic Party and will continue to do so until they actually vote their interests instead of the Party’s interests.
Now consider Conservatives and the Republican Party. There’s been a lot of talk and type about RINOs that I think is 180 degrees out of phase (as Rush might say). John McCain is not a RINO. John McCain, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudy Giuliani are the Republican Party, or at least, the Republican Party that the RNC wants.
Conservatives are the RINOs.
“Holding your nose and voting” for the Party Nominee gets you where the Blacks are today. Political Parties exist to acquire power. Ideally, they’re philosophically or ideologically constrained and won’t “do anything” to get more power. But even ideological parties need reminding by the voters that the Party must serve the interests of the voters, not the other way around. The longer you “hold your nose” the more irrelevant that you become and there’s always some pending crisis that will require you to “hold your nose”.
Ideologically, Blacks have much more in common with Conservatives than they do with the Democrats or Republicans. Bill Clinton’s Unforgivable Crime may well unravel both major parties.
