And, as someone already pointed out, the GOP shot themselves in the foot over immigration, and then piled on by going after Sotomayor over the Latina comment.

Nothing like pissing off the nations fastest growing demographic to begin your time in the wilderness.

“16-year-old boy beaten to death in Roseland:

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/09/boy-16-found-slain-on-far-south-side.html

Forget the bullshit about TARP, Auto Bail-outs, etc. walk through the inner-cities and and ask all those hopey changey voters how they are faring.

As for the demographics, I suggest you give the exist polls a glance. The only demographics Obama didn’t win were white southern men and voters over 70. That’s not a trend you can expect to change soon. And to your last point, I’d like to remind you that the economy and the systemic debt we are seeing are the product of the previous adminstration. I didn’t hear high-minded conservatives groaning when the Bush Adminstration was piling on debt, proposing and passing TARP, bailing out the auto industry, committing us to a war in Iraq and creating a Pharma entitlement bill that had no funding. In any event, when the economy picks up, and IT will before 2012, you guys will be calling it the Bush Recovery.

It’s obvious the democrats don’t give a rat’s ass about them once the polls close. And that for all your “he’s a racist” rantings” makes me sick.

Pull yourself away from your computer and get off your self-rigtheous ass and do something for them.

If you look at the announced candidates making credible bids for statewide office, the GOP so far has two non-whites (Nikki Haley and Tim Scott) and two females (Haley and Kelly Payne). The Democrats have all white men. The only non-white-male running for anything so far on the Dem side is Robert Ford, a black man who is dismissed by most Democrats in large part because he dares to advance the cause of civil rights of black school children to get a decent education. Ironic, isn’t it? And we get back to how the GOP can use the vouchers issue as a sort of 21st century civil rights issue to appeal to black voters.

I was sitting in row 10, roughly center of the arena. There were, by my count, at least a dozen “non-Caucasian” folks in the audience, representing at least three different ethnic groups. This includes 6 friends of mine that I got to speak with over the course of the evening, one of whom was one of my guests at the debate, Rev. Charles Butler from Orangeburg (The aforementioned 2nd Vice Chair of the SCGOP).

To say that “No Hispanics or other members of other non-Caucasian minority groups attended the debate” is just flat-out wrong. I’d suggest an optometrist appointment (or less alcohol) for your analyst.

We can still certainly argue over whether or not 12 (as opposed to 2) people out of 400 is diverse enough, but let’s at least start from the facts as they actually were on the ground.

JDG

1. The Colt comment should not have been dignified with a response.
2. Republicans need not apologize for demanding that the Democratic government tell the truth about its policies.
3. Minorities have traditionally favored liberal social policies. Conservative Republicans oppose liberal social policies on the basis that the legacy of all such policies is dependence–slavery–for everyone inolved. Many conservatives are unfairly slandered as meanspirited and racist for insisting that self-reliance is always preferable to slavery, even though self-reliance is hard and often attended by uncomfortable risk.
4. The demographics actually look worse for the aging white liberals who almost single-handedly elected Barack Obama. In case you had missed it, conservative Christians are about the only group still obeying the ancient edict to “be fruitful and multiply.”
5. Lots of white people vote for entitlements, too. Old people, young people–most Americans–like a handout when they can get it. Just as conservatives are a minority among whites, they are a minority among minorities. As that mindset begins to change (as it will change when this round of massive government spending fizzles into stagflation and monumental debt), the Republican Party will see many new faces. Maybe yours will be one of them.