Rescue me
or take me in your arms
Rescue me
I want your tender charms
’Cause I'm lonely and I'm blue
I need you
And your love too
Come on and rescue me
-- Rescue Me
Between Iraq and illegal immigration, I need some comic relief. Fortunately, the Republican Party’s pursuit of black voters is always good for a laugh.
For more than 30 years, the GOP has taken a baby-step approach to black outreach. Or as the Republican National Committee's Tara Wall put it:
We have a lot of ground to make up, but we have a message that is resonating. We are now talking to people we have not been talking to before.
Yeah, but is anyone listening? I LOL at the headline, “The Republican Party Pins Hopes on Black Republicans to Break Democratic Lock.” Like a drowning man reaching for a razor blade, a party that is so far down in the polls that it has to look up to see the ground hopes black voters will save it from an electoral beat-down:
After decades of trying to sway black voters, targeting a growing black middle class and the social conservatism of many churchgoing blacks, the GOP has gotten only weak results.
In 2000, George W. Bush got 7 percent of the black vote in his successful presidential campaign. Four years later, 11 percent of black voters cast ballots for President Bush [roughly the same support that Bush père received in 1988 and 1992].
