The Patriot Post® · Saturday Open Thread

GOP Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students that blacks “don’t have a reason” to vote Republican. He continued:

We have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans. This party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People don’t walk away from parties, Their parties walk away from them.

For the last 40-plus years we had a “Southern Strategy” that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, “Bubba” went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.

Of course, one of the reasons conservatives may have for not voting Republican is Michael Steele.

Discuss.