So, the non-Black candidate is telling the non-Black audience that
the Black president is doing so poorly that the non-present Black audience won’t vote for him?
2012…in the bag. Nice of the Republicans to come to this conclusion without the Black electorate in the room.
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Gingrich stopped off at an airport Marriott near Baltimore Thursday to keynote the Maryland GOP’s annual Red, White & Blue banquet. Before the speech, he assured reporters that his campaign was still going strong. When he took the podium, he offered Republican donors a long, dense speech full of red meat and warnings about the state of the world around us.
He also said it was time for Republicans to tell African Americans how terrible Obama has been for them.
He broke out the “Obama is the food stamp president” line that got him in racial trouble earlier in the campaign.
But this time, he spun the line into a suggestion that the African American vote is ripe for the plucking.
Here’s how the line works: Obama is the food stamp president, Gingrich says, whereas he wants to be the paycheck president. The difference comes down to creating jobs or not, and Gingrich says he knows how to create them.
And that’s where the black vote comes in.
“No administration in modern times has failed younger blacks more than the Obama administration,” Gingrich said.
He explained that “in May, we had 41% unemployment among black teenagers in America.” That means if Republicans can put on a brave face, they might be able to turn the African American vote their way.
Think of the social catastrophe of 41% of a community not being able to find a job. But we have to have the courage to walk into that neighborhood, to talk to that preacher, to visit that small business, to talk to that mother. And we have to have a convincing case that we actually know how to create jobs.
“The morning they believe that, you’re going to see margins in percents you never dreamed of decide there’s a better future,” Gingrich said. “It takes courage, it takes hard work, it takes discipline and it’s doable.”
“I will bet you there is not a single precinct in this state in which the majority will pick for their children food stamps over paychecks,” he said.
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3 responses to “Newt Gingrich: Obama Is So Bad, Black People Will Vote Republican”
Gingrich & Bachman are trying the age old tactic of Divide and conquer. They say half-truths but yet they have no alternative….apparently they did not get the memo….it won’t work this time. Black people ain’t as dumb as they think we are. We will not fall for the OKEY-Doke. Granted there will be the few that simply don’t/cant understand but 2012 will be the nail in the republican coffin. People of color see right through the nonsense and BS.
“Obama is the food stamp president, Gingrich says, whereas he wants to be the paycheck president.”
Truthfully, I don’t think Gingrich is serious about being president at all. His mission is to sell “Newt, Inc.” – all of his books and videos and other junk. He’s raised a bit of campaign money, run up a bunch of bills, paid himself and his wife well out of the campaign – now all he has to do is walk away and leave his vendors on the hook.
You watch – his campaign is about as real as the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
I read something on The Grio suggesting that this just boils down to an attempt to discourage Af-Am voters from voting for Pres Obama while knowing that Af-Ams wouldn’t vote for Republicans in numbers, which would effectively lower A-Am turnout if successful, thus still worth trying as a strategy. That’s more believable than suggesting that the GOP would actively court Af-Am voters.
While Few people think Gingrich’s campaign will be successful, other GOP candidates for all offices could use this to undermine Democratic support, and if they try, the Dems will have to spend money countering it. But the GOP will akmost Certainly have more money to spend on such ads, thus draining Democratic resources. This is still something to watch out for.